8:25 PM IST, 4:55 PM Local Time | Deepak: A couple of wickets in the over of Ngarava has turned the tide of the game as the left-arm pacer bagged a crucial wicket of set batter Robin Uthappa and changed the equation of the game. Cape Town Samp Army thumped Harare Hurricanes by 15 runs and taste the first victory of the tournament. Earlier after opting to bat first, Cape Town Samp Army posted 112/7 at the end of 10 overs. Rahmanullah Gurbaz was the top scorer for Samp Army, as the gloveman scored 25 runs. Bhanuka Rajapaksa contributed 24 runs, while Tadiwanashe Marumani played a cameo of 20 runs off just 8 balls and helped his side post 112 runs.
In pursuit of Samp Army’s 112 runs, Harare Hurricanes got off to a decent start as their openers, Robin Uthappa and Evin Lewis, added 33 runs for the first wicket before Lewis departed for 16 runs. Donavon Ferreira joined Uthappa at number three, and Uthappa took responsibility for scoring at a brisk pace and accelerating the run rate, but Hurricanes faced a huge blow when both the set batters departed in the same over, leaving the Hurricanes in a spot of bother. Uthappa departed for 31 runs, while Ferreira played a scratchy innings of 14 runs off 11 balls. Following the wicket of Uthappa, Hurricanes triggered a collapse and they fell 15 runs short of the target.
On the bowling front, Richard Ngarava and Tom Curran bagged a couple of wickets for Cape Town Samp Army, while Peter Hatzoglou and Karim Janat contributed one wicket.
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