Super Sport Park Centurion T20 records: Centurion Cricket Ground records and highest innings totals

The sixth match of the inaugural season of SA20 will be played between Pretoria Capitals and Sunrisers Eastern Cape in Centurion. The first-ever SA20 rematch will be played less than 48 hours after their first contest against each other. Having faced each other in Gqeberha on Thursday, Capitals had emerged as the winners after successfully defending 194 runs in a night encounter.

While wicket-keeper batter Phil Salt, captain Wayne Parnell and fast bowler Anrich Nortje had powered the team to a victory at the St George’s Park on the day before yesterday, it will be interesting how specialist batters Will Jacks, Rilee Rossouw and Theunis de Bruyn perform in an afternoon contest today.

Eastern Cape, on the other hand, have a lot of scope for improvement especially in the bowling department in their pursuit of a maiden victory on the second double-header day of the tournament.

Super Sport Park Centurion T20 records

Highest T20 run-scorers at this venue are Albie Morkel (895), Farhaan Behardien (875), AB de Villiers (756), Henry Davids (709) and Jacques Rudoplh (598). A list of best batters at this venue among active cricketers has been provided below:

Batters	Matches	Runs	Highest	Average	SR
Quinton de Kock	13	525	108*	43.75	156.25
Heinrich Klaasen	19	443	69	31.64	146.69
Dean Elgar	13	425	79	47.22	112.73
Roelof van der Merwe	33	424	70	22.32	122.9
Aiden Markram	14	400	63	44.44	141.34

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Highest wicket-takers in Centurion T20s are Albie Morkel (47), Roelof van der Merwe (34), Ethy Mbhalati (27), Alfonso Thomas (23) and Chris Morris (21). Best bowlers at this stadium among active cricketers:

Bowlers	Matches	Wickets	Average	Economy	SR
Roelof van der Merwe	33	34	20.82	7.15	17.47
David Wiese	29	21	17.71	7.42	14.33
Malusi Siboto	15	20	14.5	7.44	11.7
Lungi Ngidi	17	20	18.35	8.53	12.9
Tabraiz Shamsi	20	19	28.21	7.44	22.74

Highest innings totals in Centurion T20s

Score	Overs	Team	Opposition	Year
241/6	20	South Africa	England	2009
231/2	20	Dolphins	Cape Cobras	2017
230/5	20	Titans	Lions	2016
226/5	19.1	England	South Africa	2020
224/5	19.4	Cape Cobras	Titans	2011

SuperSport Park, which is all in readiness of hosting a T20 after 21 months, has been witness to quite a few innings totals in excess of 200 in this format. In fact, three of those instances have come in successful run-chases as well. Hence, don’t be surprised to see a high-scoring match on a Saturday afternoon.

It is noteworthy that the above mentioned fifth-highest innings total is also the highest successful T20 run-chase at this stadium.