'Nothing to say, MICT completely outplayed JSK' - Fans react as Kieron Pollard's men beat yellow army by 98 runs to register first win in SA20 2024

MI Cape Town completely outplayed the Joburg Super Kings in the 4th match of the ongoing SA20 2024; Kieron Pollard’s men won the match by a big margin of 98 runs to register their first win in the tournament after losing their first match of the campaign against Durban’s Super Giants by 11 runs due to DLS.

Joburg Super Kings won the toss and asked the visitors MICT to bat first at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday, January 13 2024. However, this decision completely backfired as MI Cape Town’s explosive opening duo of Rassie van der Dussen and wicketkeeper-batter Ryan Rickelton broke the record with their amazing opening partnership.

Rassie van der Dussen carries an onslaught against JSK bowlers

The duo of Rassie Van der Dussen and Rickelton stitched an unbelievable partnership of 200 runs for the first wicket in MICT’s favour; it is the highest-ever partnership in SA20. Van der Dussen scored a swashbuckling century, scoring 104 runs off just 50 balls, with 9 fours and 6 sixes, alongside 98 runs scored by Ryan Rickelton off just 49 balls, hitting 6 fours and 8 sixes.

On the back of these two blistering knocks, MI Cape Town posted a massive total of 243 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Nandre Burger scalped two wickets for Super Kings in the first innings, alongside one wicket each picked by Lizaad Williams, Romario Shepherd, and Imran Tahir.

While chasing the target, the batting lineup of the Super Kings completely surrendered against the bowling arsenal of MICT; MI’s bowlers bundled out JSK just at the score of 145 runs in 17.5 overs and won the match by a big margin of 98 runs. George Linde and Olly Stone scalped two wickets each for the visitors, alongside one wicket each picked by every bowler who got a chance to bowl.

Now, Kieron Pollard-led MICT have also moved to the spot of the points table in the SA20 2024, with one defeat and one loss in the two matches, they played so far.

Here’s how fans reacted to MICT’s win over JSK:

Nothing to say MICT outplayed us 🙃 #JSKVSMICT pic.twitter.com/tXow9OC24A

— Maddy (@ms210999) January 13, 2024

JSK Batting Lineup Today 👍#SA20 #JSKvsMICT pic.twitter.com/RpbJhd16rK

— 🚩🚩🅡︎🅘︎🅢︎🅗︎🅘︎🚩🚩 (@Rishi_rajput24) January 13, 2024

4 Centuries scored in #SA20

3 came against #JSK



Good Consistency 🔥#JSKvsMICT pic.twitter.com/R0synByVK2

— Speak•Cricket (@micricket2013) January 13, 2024

Nothing can match the satisfaction in the sport when ur fav team beats the team u dislike. Thank you @MICapeTown . #SA20league#JSKvsMICT

— Pavankumar (@pavankumarmsc9) January 13, 2024

Last year, we're fortunate enough that We didn't lose a single home game...



JSK's first loss at Home and that too against Arch Rivals MI.#SA20 #JSKvMICT #JSKvsMICT pic.twitter.com/InDiHWhzCE

— Joburg Super Kings #SA20 (@JoburgSuperK) January 13, 2024

Brevis drops the catch!

The batsman the very next ball hits it in towards MI dugout and the fielding coach Jimmy takes the catch with ease and some SWAG 🔥#JSKvsMICT #SA20

— CricBlood (@cric_madman) January 13, 2024

I think JSK have a very decent South African core

1.Faf

2.Reeza

3.Donavan

4. R Hermann who's very good according to hustler

5.coetzee💀

6.burger💀

7.tahir



I think this is more than decent, they just need solid 4 foreigners #JSKvsMICT

— Strange (@J_P_rimE) January 13, 2024

My brain was calculating how will jsk chase 210 in 90 balls @dhotedhulwate @ShuhidAufridi #Sa20 #jskvsmict #BB24

— BCCI (@PiyushKhanchan4) January 13, 2024

𝙃𝙚𝙮, 𝙬𝙚’𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙚’𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙘. 💙💛#OneFamily #MICapetown #SA20 #JSKvsMICT pic.twitter.com/kPgNo8fUAs

— MI Cape Town (@MICapeTown) January 13, 2024

Rassie vander dudsen in t20like Rinku singh in test matches💀💀💀💀💀

— Rocky (@Rocky255686) January 13, 2024

That's an absolute thrashing! 🔥💥

— Sonam Murarkar (@murarkar_sonam) January 13, 2024