{"id":665841,"date":"2026-01-01T01:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665841\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T01:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:29:16","slug":"sa20-results-david-millers-unbeaten-71-guides-paarl-royals-past-sunrisers-eastern-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665841\/","title":{"rendered":"SA20 results: David Miller&#8217;s unbeaten 71 guides Paarl Royals past Sunrisers Eastern Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Captain David Miller struck an unbeaten 71 to guide Paarl Royals to a <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229116\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">five-wicket win<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> over Sunrisers Eastern Cape in the SA20. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 150, Royals were 35-4 but Miller shared 114 with Keagan Lion-Cachet (45 off 40) for the fifth wicket to put them back in control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They needed 17 from 12 balls for victory and Lion-Cachet hit three fours in the penultimate over to leave just two required from the last. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miller, who hit four fours and five sixes in his 38-ball knock, took a single from the first ball to level the scores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis Gregory then bowled two dots at Lion-Cachet, before having him caught at gully. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Gregory got his line wrong to new batter Delano Potgieter and a wide was signalled to give Royals victory with two balls to spare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunrisers had earlier posted 149 all out with Jordan Hermann top-scoring with 47.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were well set at 135-4 in the 17th over but Marco Jansen and Hermann were dismissed in the space of four balls to spark a collapse of six wickets for 13 runs in 19 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win is Royals&#8217; first of the season and lifts them to fourth, while Sunrisers remain top despite their first loss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain David Miller struck an unbeaten 71 to guide Paarl Royals to a five-wicket win over Sunrisers Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-665841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115817256299608905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}