David Miller and Joe Root
Champions Trophy 2025 is going to start from next month. Now only 1 month is left for the tournament. In such a situation, England’s dashing batsman Joe Root and South Africa’s stormy batsman David Miller have issued a warning to the opposition teams while wreaking havoc with the bat. Joe Root and David Miller are currently playing the T20 league and are part of Paarl Royals in the SA20 league. The 12th match of the SA20 League was played between Pretoria Capitals and Paarl Royals on 18 January at the Super Sports Park in Centurion. In this match, Joe Root wreaked havoc with the bat which will be remembered for a long time in this league. Root got full support from David Miller. In this way, due to the brilliant and stormy innings of both the batsmen, Paarl Royals was successful in chasing the biggest target in the history of SA20.
Batting first, Pretoria Capitals scored a huge score of 212 runs after losing 5 wickets in 20 overs with the help of Will Smeed’s half-century. Smeed played an innings of 54 runs in 34 balls, hitting 5 fours and 3 sixes. Gurbaz contributed 42 runs and Kyle Verrene contributed 45 runs. In response to this, Paarl Royals had a very bad start. The team suffered a blow on the very first ball in the form of Lhuan-Dre Pretorius on the score of 0 runs. After this, Joe Root along with Rubin Harman took charge and batted brilliantly and took his team’s score beyond 100 runs in just 10 overs. During this, Joe Root completed his half-century in 28 balls.
After Harman’s dismissal in the 12th over, David Miller came to the crease and started batting stormy after seeing Joe Root. After this, both of them together achieved the target of 213 runs with 2 balls remaining. Root played a stormy innings of 92 runs in just 60 balls. He hit 11 fours and 2 sixes in this innings. At the same time, David Miller scored 48 runs in 24 balls in which 4 fours and 2 sixes came from his bat. In this way a new record was created for the biggest target achieved in SA20.
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