SA20 Season 2: Durban's Super Giants Ease Past Joburg Super Kings To Reach Final

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Heinrich Klaasen powered Durban's Super Giants into SA20 Season 2 Final following a massive 69-run victory over Joburg Super Kings in Qualifier 2 at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Thursday (February 8).

Klaasen smashed a 30-ball 74 and shared a 101-run stand with Wiaan Mulder (50 not out off 23) to take Durban's Super Giants to a total of 211/6 in their allotted 20 overs.

In response, the Joburg Super Kings, who lost their in-form openers early, were bowled out for 142 in the 18th over. Junior Dala (4 for 38) was the highest wicket-taker for the Super Giants, but Naveen Ul Haq (2 for 27) was the pick of the bowlers.

With this result, Durban's Super Giants sealed a rematch from Qualifier 1 against defending champions Sunrisers Eastern Cape, who had beaten Keshav Maharaj's side earlier this week to reach their second successive title clash. The SA20 Final will be held at Newlands in Cape Town on Saturday (February 10).

Put into bat, DSG were in a spot of bother at 94/4 in 12.1 overs with left-arm seamer Nandre Burger (2 for 27) delivering a fiery spell upfront for the Joburg Super Kings.

But that's when Klaasen and Mulder began their work as they added a mammoth 101 runs in just 38 balls for the fifth wicket to take the game away from the Super Kings. Bhanuka Rajapaksa also contributed 35 off 23 balls in his first outing in SA20.

Doug Bracewell also claimed 2 wickets for Super Kings, while Dayyaan Galiem and Sam Cook, who was rather expensive, picked one wicket each for the hosts.

Chasing a daunting 212, JSK lost skipper Faf Du Plessis and Leus Du Plooy, who had scored fifties 24 hour earlier, very cheaply as DSG quicks removed three of the top four inside powerplay.

Moeen Ali (30), Reeza Hendricks (27) and Donovan Ferreira (24) all got among the runs for the Super Kings, but nobody could match Klaasen's sheer brute force of earlier in the day. For DSG, Reece Topley, Mulder and Dwaine Pretorius were also among the wickets.