
The Buffaloes were dealt a couple of early blows as Tom Banton and Milton Shumba were back to the hut without troubling the scorers shortly while Will Smeed and Yusuf Pathan got the wheels rolling. Despite Ravi Bopara’s destructive knock, Joburg could only garner 104, falling short of the finish line by two runs. Nandre Burger was the pick of the lot with three wickets while he was aptly supported by the duo of Chris Mpofu and Brandon Mavuta, plundering four wickets between them.


Despite Durban chipping away at wickets regularly, they could do very little to fend off the Samp Army from making it to the finish line in time as a heroic display from Karim Janat saw them home as he smashed 48 off 17 balls. Daryn Dupavillon and Tendai Chatara did share four wickets between them but it wasn’t enough to reel Cape Town in.

Sikandar Raza rose above others with the bat in his hand as he took over the reins of the match and started flexing his muscles in the most bedazzling fashion. Leading the show with a captain’s knock , Raza won his team a historic victory with a rollicking 70 from 21 balls while Kobe Herft played another blitz clobbering 41 off 23 as the Braves racked up the highest team total in Zim Afro T10 with 137 runs and secured the bragging rights emphatically.