It was an orange-draped day on which franchises from all over the southern hemisphere extended their dynasties. The Sunrisers Eastern Cape defeated the Pretoria Capitals in a thrilling game at Newlands to win their third SA20 title in four finals, just hours after Perth Scorchers won their sixth BBL title. Two Eastern Cape sons, Tristan Stubbs (63* off 41) and Matthew Breetzke (68* off 49), led the Sunrisers through a dangerous chase of 157. They struck half-centuries in a blistering 114-run stand off just 64 deliveries, turbocharging a chase that had been stuck in quicksand for most of its runtime. SEC needed 56 runs to win in the final four overs, but the two Capitals spinners, Keshav Maharaj and Roston Chase, who had only scored 50 runs in eight overs combined, were done. Maharaj, captain of the Capitals, had to guess, and he had to get two overs from either Bryce Parsons or Gideon Peters. In the meantime, Stubbs and Breetzke waited for those moments. However, they were unable to afford to leave a lot behind. Lizaad Williams' 17th over was crucial in this regard. Breetzke established a few boundaries, and Stubbs added another, tipped the balance slightly. Now under pressure, Peters crumbled in the 18th, abandoning the shorter lengths and off-pace variations that had strangled batters all chase. Instead he went full and fast, and the boundaries began to leak. There were wides, no-balls, and even a dropped catch in the space between them. Due to the 21-run over, only 21 runs were required from the remaining two. In the penultimate over, Lungi Ngidi gave up 12 runs, including a last-ball inside edge that raced to the boundary. That left the Capitals with only nine runs to defend in the final over, and even going back to spinner Parsons was pointless because captain Stubbs hit back-to-back sixes to ensure that his first half-century of the tournament took place on the biggest stage and resulted in a trophy. Two other performances in the first half were overshadowed by the match's incredible conclusion. When the Capitals were asked to bat first, Dewald Brevis hit a 56-ball 101, proving that he is the league's highest-paid player. However, Marco Jansen made another important contribution by bowling as many as 15 dots in his four overs to take 3 for 10, keeping the Sunrisers close to victory despite the fact that their top order struggled to chase. However, it took Jansen a few deliveries before he found his stride. Before coaxing Connor Esterhuizen into edging a full ball down the hallway, he sent a few errant balls down the legside. When Shai Hope caught Jonny Bairstow at cover off Lutho Sipamla, the Capitals fell to 1 for 2 in the subsequent over. Even though Brevis started his counterattack in Sipamla's next over, scoring three boundaries off the seamer, the Capitals' scoring rate never got above six until the PowerPlay's final over. However, Brevis plundered 20 from the left-arm spinner, bludgeoning drives through the off-side ring and depositing sixes over square leg and long-off with casual violence, proving Stubbs's introduction of James Coles to be a mistake. Bryce Parsons could dig in and anchor one end while Brevis was flying through a 49-run PowerPlay, but whether such restraint is necessary in contemporary T20 is still up for debate. In his run-a-ball 30, Parsons hit two fours and a six, but Brevis was solely responsible for the 96-run third-wicket stand because he simply refused to let the spinners settle. He scored a 26-ball half-century, including a six from a toe-ended misshit. When Breetzke's flat throw in the deep caught Parsons short, Sunrisers finally broke through. The Capitals lost Jordan Cox to another run-out in the next over, the 14th of the innings, but those twin dismissals couldn't slow Brevis, who launched James Coles inside-out over extra cover for an 86-metre six that carried him past 80. Sherfane Rutherford started brilliantly, slogging Chris Green for two sixes before falling to the excellent Anrich Nortje for an 11-ball 17. In the 18th over, Brevis made his century by swinging the 53rd ball he faced for his seventh six, this one with a top edge over midwicket. The 22-year-old unleashed a tremendous roar to commemorate the event as soon as he saw the ball escape the fielder. In the context of the match, in context of the state he walked in, it was monumental. The Capitals appeared destined for a score well above 180 at that point, but Jansen had other plans. He produced a sensational 19th over - a double-wicket maiden - to finish with figures of 3 for 10 while Nortje followed with just two runs in the 20th over to restrict the Capitals to 158. Brevis had scored 101 runs off 56 hits, while the other Capitals batters combined for only 55 runs off 64. On most days in modern T20, that statistic becomes a dissection point, and so it proved to be.