SA20: South Africa's famous T20 league SA20 started with a bang on January 9 in which defending champion Sunrisers Eastern Cape (SEC) had to face a crushing defeat. MI Cape Town (MICT), which had a disappointing performance last season, defeated Sunrisers by 97 runs. 28-year-old all-rounder Delano Potgieter played an important role in MI's victory, who performed brilliantly with both ball and bat. Potgieter first scored 25 runs in 12 balls to take Cape Town to a score of 174/7 and then wreaked havoc with the ball and single-handedly dealt with half of the Sunrisers team. With this, he has made a big record in his name. Potgieter took 5 wickets for 10 runs in his three overs. In this way, he gave the second best performance of SA20 with the ball. Not only this, this is the best performance of any medium pacer bowler in SA20 so far. 

Best bowling figures in SA20

• Roelof van der Merwe: 6/20 in 4 overs
• Delano Potgieter: 5/10 in 3 overs
• Noor Ahmed: 5/11 in 3.2 overs
• Junior Dala: 5/26 in 4 overs
• Marco Jansen: 5/30 in 4 overs

Sunrisers were already in trouble after the dismissal of Trent Boult, Azmatullah Omarzai and George Linde and then Potgieter devastated the middle order and lower middle order with his brilliant bowling. Potgieter came to bowl in the 11th over when the defending champion had lost 4 wickets at a score of 48 runs. After this, all-rounder Potgieter created a sensation by taking three wickets in his very first over. He opened his account by dismissing number 6 Beyers Swanepoel on his first ball and dismissed David Bedingham on the third ball. Then on the 5th ball of the over, Potgieter took his third wicket in the form of Aiden Markram.

Potgieter, who took 3 wickets in his first over, returned in the 13th over and this time he dismissed Liam Dawson. Liam Dawson could score only 6 runs. After this, Potgieter came to bowl in the 15th over and along with sending Richard Gleeson to the pavilion, he gave his team MI Cape Town a big win by 97 runs. Potgieter took 5 wickets. With this, he joined the special club of bowlers like Jaspreet Bumrah and Lasith Malinga. He is the seventh bowler of MI franchise to take five wickets in the T20 league.

MI bowlers to take five-wicket hauls in the franchise league

• Lasith Malinga: IPL vs DD in 2011
• Harbhajan Singh: IPL vs CSK in 2011
• Munaf Patel: IPL vs KXIP in 2011
• Lasith Malinga: CLT20 vs CSK in 2012
• Alzari Joseph: IPL vs SRH in 2019
• Jasprit Bumrah: IPL vs KKR in 2022
• Akash Madhwal: IPL vs LSG in 2023
• Jasprit Bumrah: IPL vs RCB in 2024
• Delano Potgieter: SA20 vs. SEC in 2025