Clinical, dominant, right-on-the-money, consistent, WINNERS. The redemption arc is complete. MI Cape Town are the 2025 SA20 Champions! Keeping in line with how effective the team and how dominating the team has been right through the league stage, getting on a roll and winning match after match, this final was pretty much a reflection of the same. We refused to take the foot off the accelerator and refused to slow down until we landed the silverware. Mumbai. New York. Emirates. Cape Town. Each of the teams in the MI Family now has a Winner’s trophy in its cabinet!

We’ve risen above them all. 2025 has gotten off to a brilliant start!

The RRs lay the platform

This seriously has been some God-level consistency. Rassie van der Dussen (23) and Ryan Rickelton (33) once again got the team off to a brilliant start, getting to 50 inside the fifth over. Match after match, it’s been their opening stand that has almost been a guarantee for MI Cape Town, allowing the rest of the batters to ease up and stay pressure free.

The Brevis explosion

Connor Esterhuizen, with his 26-ball 39, and George Linde, with his 14-ball 20, counter-attacked and just didn’t let the momentum dip after three wickets fell in quick succession. But the big boost came via young Dewald Brevis, who continued his top form in the final. Four sixes, two fours, and 18 balls later for his 38, he made sure MI Cape Town had successfully set themselves a 180+ total on the board.

Another game sealed in the powerplay, ft. TB and KG

Kagiso Rabada got David Bedingham in his first over, Trent Boult got Jordan Hermann in his second, and together, they broke the back of the Sunrisers Eastern Cape chase even before it had begun. Just when Tony de Zorzi and Tom Abell got a small partnership going, the spinners in Rashid Khan and George Linde made sure there was no twist in the tale. The wickets kept tumbling, the asking rate kept going up, we kept getting nearer.

And finally, off 18.4, when Rabada got Richard Gleeson to chip one to cover, the roof went off. The Wanderers was painted in Blue and Gold. The players and the fans know what an epic feat this is and what it means to everybody after the two tough seasons.

Paltan, where’s the party tonight?!