St Georges Park Stadium T20 records: Gqeberha Cricket Stadium records and highest innings totals in Port Elizabeth T20s

Dixit Bhargav | 12/01/2023
St Georges Park Stadium T20 records: Gqeberha Cricket Stadium records and highest innings totals in Port Elizabeth T20s

The third match of SA20 2023 will be played between Sunrisers Eastern Cape and Pretoria Capitals in Gqeberha tonight. Third of the six venues to host the inaugural season of the tournament, St George’s will be hosting a T20 after 10 and a half months.

Both the participating teams will be playing their first-ever match on Thursday as all the focus will be on high-profile players from both the teams namely Aiden Markram, Tristan Stubbs, Rilee Rossouw, Phil Salt, James Neesham, Marco Jansen, Adil Rashid and Anrich Nortje.

Although the match is anticipated to be followed across the globe, it will particularly be followed by the fans of Indian Premier League franchises in Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals.

St Georges Park Stadium T20 records

Highest T20 run-scorers at the St George’s Park are Jon-Jon Smuts (801), Davy Jacobs (598), Colin Ingram (528), Christiaan Jonker (495) and Ashwell Prince (464). With Jacobs and Prince no longer participants of the T20 circuit around the world, details of best T20 batters among active cricketers have been provided below:

Batters Matches Runs Highest Average SR
Jon-Jon Smuts 41 801 73 21.08 114.76
Colin Ingram 24 528 64 27.79 118.92
Christiaan Jonker 27 495 61 26.05 123.75
Reeza Hendricks 16 427 108 30.5 120.28
Pieter Malan 12 416 71 41.6 116.85

ALSO READ: Pitch report of St George’s Park for Sunrisers vs Capitals SA20 2023 match

Highest T20 wicket-takers at this stadium are Sisanda Magala (28), Smuts (27), Rusty Theron (25), Junior Dala (22) and Andrew Birch (21). Best bowlers here among active cricketers are:

Bowlers Matches Wickets Average SR Economy
Sisanda Magala 28 28 22.82 7.03 19.46
Jon-Jon Smuts 41 27 26.19 6.37 24.67
Junior Dala 19 22 23.32 8.41 16.64
Tabraiz Shamsi 14 19 19.16 6.74 17.05
Aaron Phangiso 22 19 23.05 5.54 24.95

Highest innings totals in Gqeberha T20s

Score Overs Team Opposition Year
211/5 20 Dolphins Warriors 2022
191/6 20 Warriors Dolphins 2022
189 19.5 Warriors Cape Cobras 2019
189/4 19.4 Nelson Mandela Bay Giants Tshwane Spartans 2019
188/5 20 Tshwane Spartans Nelson Mandela Bay Giants 2019

The 200-run mark has been surpassed only once in more than 100 Gqeberha T20s over the years. The above mentioned third-highest innings totals is also the highest successful T20 run-chase at this venue. It all had happened during a Mzansi Super League match when former Australia batter Ben Dunk had scored 99* (54) to register a titular effort in chasing down a 189-run target more than three years ago.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
Pretoria Capitals SA20 2023 Sunrisers Eastern Cape

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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