• Sunrisers Eastern Cape will face off against Pretoria Capitals in Match 5 of SA20 2025-26.

  • The encounter will take place at the St George's Park in Gqeberha.

SEC vs PC, SA20 2025-26, Match Prediction: Who will win today’s game between Sunrisers Eastern Cape and Pretoria Capitals?
SEC vs PEC, SA20 2025-26, Match Prediction (Image source: X)

Sunrisers Eastern Cape host Pretoria Capitals in the 5th match of SA20 2025-26 at St George’s Park, Gqeberha, on Monday. Sunrisers Eastern Cape enter as favorites after a dominant win over Paarl Royals, posting 186/4 and bowling them out for 49. Pretoria Capitals lost their opener by 22 runs to Joburg Super Kings, struggling with the bat.

Sunrisers Eastern Cape, led by Tristan Stubbs, boast a balanced squad with Quinton de Kock, Jonny Bairstow, Anrich Nortje, and Marco Jansen. Pretoria Capitals, captained by Keshav Maharaj, rely on firepower from Andre Russell, Dewald Brevis, and Lungi Ngidi but showed batting frailties early.

SEC vs PC, SA20 2025-26: Match details

  • Date and Time: December 29 (Monday); 9:00 pm IST / 03:30 pm GMT / 5:30 pm Local
  • Venue: St George’s Park in Gqeberha

Head-to-Head Record in SA20 2025-26:

Matches played: 7 | Sunrisers Eastern Cape won: 3 | Pretoria Capitals won: 4 | No result/Tied: 0

St George’s Park Pitch Report

St George’s Park in Gqeberha features a bowler-friendly pitch, particularly suiting fast bowlers with its consistent pace, bounce, and seam movement, as seen in recent SA20 games. The surface offers early assistance to pacers, who have claimed more wickets than spinners, while batters need to settle in against disciplined lines. Expect short boundaries to aid power-hitters later, but low bounce in middle overs could trigger collapses. Dew factor tomorrow evening may further tilt scales.

Squads

Pretoria Capitals: Will Smeed, Connor Esterhuizen (wk), Shai Hope, Dewald Brevis, Roston Chase, Andre Russell, Bryce Parsons, Codi Yusuf, Gideon Peters, Keshav Maharaj (c), Lungi Ngidi, Tymal Mills, Lizaad Williams, Sibonelo Makhanya, Wihan Lubbe, Keith Dudgeon, Junaid Dawood, Sherfane Rutherford, Jordan Cox, Daniel Smith, Meeka eel Prince

Sunrisers Eastern Cape: Jonny Bairstow, Quinton de Kock (wk), Tristan Stubbs (c), Lewis Gregory, Matthew Breetzke, Marco Jansen, Patrick Kruger, Senuran Muthusamy, Adam Milne, Anrich Nortje, Chris Wood, Allah Ghazanfar, JP King, Christopher King, Jordan Hermann, Mitchell Van Buuren, Tharindu Rathnayake, James Coles, Beyers Swanepoel, Lutho Sipamla

Also READ: SA20 2026: Complete squads of all six teams after the players’ auction

SEC vs PC, SA20 2025-26: Today’s Match Prediction

Case 1:

  • Sunrisers Eastern Cape wins the toss and bowls first
  • Pretoria Capitals’ powerplay score: 45-55 (6 overs)
  • Pretoria Capitals’ total score: 155-165

Case 2:

  • Pretoria Capitals wins the toss and bowls first
  • Sunrisers Eastern Cape’s powerplay score: 55-65 (6 overs)
  • Sunrisers Eastern Cape’s total score: 170-180

Match result: Team bowling first to win the contest

Also READ: Sunrisers Eastern Cape skittle Paarl Royals for SA20’s lowest-ever total in one-sided win

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