Rahul Tiwari
khelja|23-01-2025
The history of cricket is full of explosive performances by players. And, something similar is being seen in South Africa's T20 league also. On January 22, Sunrisers Eastern Cap was facing Pretoria Capitals in this league. In this match, the havoc of the world's tallest bowler was once again seen, who helped Sunrisers win the match. We are talking about 6 feet 10 inches tall Marco Janson, due to whose sharp bowling the Sunrisers team was successful in scoring a hat-trick of wins in the league.
Sunrisers Eastern Cap started the league with a defeat. He had lost 3 consecutive matches. But, after that, he won 3 matches one after the other and scored a hat-trick of victories. Marco Janson had a big role in completing the hat-trick of victory of this team owned by Kavya Maran, who has become the highest wicket-taker in the league by taking 10 wickets so far.
In the match played against Pretoria Capitals on 22 January, Sunrisers Eastern Cap, batting first, scored 149 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. However, the start of the team was very bad. The team's top order had returned to the dugout on 14 runs. Half the team is on 53 runs. But after this captain Aidan Markram played a brilliant innings. He also got some support from Marco Yanson and Dowson from the other end, Markram scored 68 runs. While Yanson scored 24 runs and Dowson scored 25 runs.
However, Marco Janson's work was not limited to supporting his captain with the bat. The real work of this world's tallest bowler among the currently active players in cricket had to begin now. He had to defend 149 runs for his team. Pretoria Capitals had to be stopped from scoring 150 runs, which they did very well.
24 year old Marco Janson was the most successful bowler of his team. He took 4 wickets for just 13 runs in 4 overs against Pretoria Capitals. Earlier on January 19, in the match played against Joburg Super Giants, he had taken 2 wickets for 23 runs. On January 17 also, Yanson took 1 wicket against the same team. Whereas he took the remaining 2 wickets in the first 3 matches played in the league.
Left-arm bowler Marco Janson has taken maximum 10 wickets in the 6 matches played so far in the league, out of which 7 wickets have come in the team's victory.