Pretoria Capitals win toss and bowl in Paarl

Pretoria Capitals captain, Rilee Rossouw, won the toss and chose to bowl first in their SA20 match against the Paarl Royals at Boland Park in Paarl on Saturday afternoon.

On a sweltering day and another low, slow pitch the home side have selected no less than four specialist spinners with Joe Root providing as fifth option with his off-spin while the visitors have three spinners including opener Will Jacks who also bowl off-spin.

The Royals have been in rampant form with five wins from their six matches and top the log with 20 points, one ahead of the Sunrisers Eastern Cape but with a match in hand on the defending champions who have won four from seven.

The Capitals have just a single victory from their six matches so far but four points from two ‘no-results’ give them nine points and place them fifth, one ahead of the Durban Super Giants and one behind the Jo’burg Super Kings who have 10 points.

PAARL ROYALS: Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Joe Root, Rubin Hermann, Mitchell Van Buuren, David Miller (captain), Dinesh Karthik (wkt), Dayyaan Galiem, Dunith Wellalage, Bjorn Fortuin, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Nqabayomzi Peter

PRETORIA CAPITALS: Will Jacks, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Kyle Verreynne (wkt), Rilee Rossouw (captain), Marques Ackerman, Keagan Lion Cachet, James Neesham, Senuran Muthusamy, Kyle Simmonds, Eathan Bosch, Jason Behrendorff