Watch: Phil Salt ends Kieron Pollard's destructive cameo with one-handed diving stunner

On the fourth ball of the 19th over during the SA20 2024 match between Pretoria Capitals and MI Cape Town, Capitals wicketkeeper Phil Salt took a brilliant catch to get rid of MI captain Kieron Pollard. Eathan Bosch bowled a short-pitched slower ball to Pollard. The MI captain was not able to judge the pace of the ball and wanted to play it towards the fine leg region.

Kieron Pollard firstly was trying to play a pull shot against the short-pitched ball but at the last moment, he checked his shot was tried to guide it towards the fine leg region. However, in the end, Pollard top-edged the ball to which, wicketkeeper Phil Salt took a brilliant running catch while going backward.

Watch: Kieron Pollard walks back to the dressing room due to the brilliance of Phil Salt

Take a bow, Salty! What a catch. 🔥pic.twitter.com/mvWbLHLUYL

— Pretoria Capitals (@PretoriaCapsSA) February 3, 2024

Batting first at the Sahara Park Newlands, MI Cape Town put up a score of 163/9. Rassie van der Dussen top-scored for MI with the bat and played an innings of 60 runs from 46 balls. He smashed a total of four fours and 1 sixes during his stay at the crease. van der Dussen added 62 runs from 42 balls along with Ryan Rickleton. Rickleton played some aggressive shots and hit 35 runs from 24 balls.

Colin Ackermann drew the first blood against MI Cape Town for the Pretoria Capitals. Ackermann removed Rickleton on the last ball of the seventh over as he was caught by Rilee Russouw. Liam Livingstone and Sam Curran were not able to do much and were removed by Adil Rashid for 6 and 3 runs respectively. MI’s fall of wickets continued as Dewald Brevis fell to Wayne Parnell and was caught by Phil Salt for 9 runs.

Rassie van der Dussen held one end strongly and continued to score runs to bring up a welcome half-century. After the fall of van der Dussen, all the onus was on MI skipper Kieron Pollard. Before getting out in the 19th over, he had scored 33 runs from 16 balls with a total of 1 four and 4 sixes. Pollard played at a strike rate of 206.25. However, the wickets continued to fall from the other end and no other batsman other than van der Dussen, Ryan Rickleton, and Pollard were able to turn to double digits and got out cheaply.

Wayne Parnell was the star of the show for the Pretoria Capitals with the ball and picked up a four-wicket haul. On the other hand, Adil Rashid and Eathan Bosch picked up 2 wickets each whereas Colin Ackermann ended up with 1 wicket.

Pretoria Capitals are not in the best of forms in the current edition of the SA20 2024 and are currently placed at the bottom of the table with just two wins from 9 games. On the other hand, MI Cape Town’s present edition of the SA20 is not up to the mark and they are in the fourth spot with 3 wins from 9 games and have 13 points on the board.

Numerous well-known figures from all around the world, like Jos Buttler, Kieron Pollard, Naveen-ul-Haq, Jason Roy, and many more, have participated in the SA20, demonstrating its enormous success.