Sunrisers' steam train charges to third consecutive bonus point win

The Sunrisers Eastern Cape steam train is gathering momentum after the defending Betway SA20 champions claimed a third consecutive bonus point win on Wednesday eveningThe defending champions fed off the energy of playing before the Orange Army at St Georgersquos Park with a 52run victory over the Pretoria CapitalsSunrisers remain in third place with 15 points while the Capitals stay on nine points in fifth placeIt was a performance where the backtoback champions had to show their character after being reduced to 535 after an impressive early burst by Capitals seamer Eathan Bosch 333 and new Australian recruit Jason BehrendorffBosch has now become the Capitalsrsquo leading wickettaker with 26 scalps surpassing former captain Wayne Parnellrsquos 24Sunrisers required a captainrsquos innings and Aiden Markram delivered with a gusty 68 not out off 55 balls to lift the Sunrisers up to 1497Markram received lower order support from Marco Jansen 24 off 24 balls and Liam Dawson 25 off 11 balls to switch the momentum in the favour of the home teamldquoIt was tough the new ball was doing a lot swing and extra bounce When the ball got soft the odd one was sticking onto the surface some were holding on it wasnt easy They have got some skillful bowlers so I wanted to watch my technical aspect and thankfully it allowed me to get inrdquo said MarkramldquoWe didnt want to pull the trigger too early he provided the impetus on Marco Jansen the small knocks from him and Dawson were so important and it allowed me to settle He keeps getting better and better its great for South Africa to see such a young guy keep performingldquoHe has a calm head and a cool character thankful for the crowd to have come out and supported us in big numbers It was tricky and to come out to support us on such a windy day was nice to seerdquoJansen is fast becoming an early contender for Betway SA20 Season 3 Most Valuable Player MVP with the allrounder following up his cameo with a brilliant newball spellThe lanky leftarm seamer tore through the Capitals top order with figures of 37 and aided by Richard Gleeson 122 left the visitors in tatters at 284Capitals had handed Rookie Keagan LionCachet an SA20 debut and the 22yearold showed that he had both the skill and temperament to succeed at this levelThe righthander struck a solid 28 in partnership with Marques Ackerman 25 to give the Sky Blues a semblance of hopeHowever Sunrisers were not to be denied on their home patch with Dawson 317 picking up both in quick succession to close out another bonus point winCapitals captain Rilee Rossouw believes his team can still turn around their fortunesldquoI thought we did the right thing at the right time with our bowling 150 was par and the bowlers did their job but the batters were below parrdquo Rossouw saidldquoIt was all about natural instincts we wanted to go as deep as possible take the match as deep as possible but they kept taking wickets in the middle Hitting halfvolleys to midoff hitting halftrackers to long leg thats not natural instinctldquoWe need to do the right things stick to our process and a couple of wins well probably be through to the playoffsrdquoWith agency inputs