MI Cape Town seal first win against Super Kings

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Defending champions MI Cape Town won their first match of the season with a four-wicket victory over Joburg Super Kings in SA20.

In a rain-affected match that was reduced to 12 overs a side, the home side chased a revised target of 128 with four balls to spare to seal a win at the sixth attempt.

Opener Rassie van der Dussen (35 from 24 balls) and Nicholas Pooran (33 from 15) got Cape Town's innings off to a good start, while Jason Smith (22 from seven) and Karim Janat (nine not out) hit three sixes from English seamer Richard Gleeson's penultimate over to set-up victory.

Super Kings captain Faf du Plessis made a blistering start to his side's innings after losing the toss, hitting 43 from 18 deliveries, including four consecutive boundaries off the final over of the powerplay, after which the rain came down.

The players returned after more than an hour off the field, but Du Plessis only managed to add one run to his total before he was well caught by Reeza Hendricks off the bowling of Rashid Khan, four balls after the resumption of play.

Having reached 69-2 before the break, Super Kings reached 123-7 at the conclusion of their remaining six overs, with MI's Corbin Bosch taking 3-24 from his three overs.

MI remain bottom but are now within one point of fifth-placed Pretoria Capitals, while second-place Super Kings miss out on the chance to go level on points with leaders Sunrisers Eastern Cape after their first defeat of the season.