Dankie for everything, Kaapstad

We might be ending this on a disappointed note. This wasn’t the dream. 

It started with a heartbreak at Newlands against Durban’s Super Giants where Ryan Rickelton played one of the finest knocks this tournament has seen. The reverse fixture at Kingsmead was washed out. After a game to forget against the Pretoria Capitals, another game that we were in control of in the chase against Paarl Royals, was lost off the last ball, by one run. The reverse fixture, again, was a collapse on our part. 

It was a tough first half. Just the points from the rain-affected loss to show in the points table. But this wasn’t a team to throw in the towel. We fought. We roared. With peak MI Spirit coming to the fore, we came back from behind in a curtailed game against the Joburg Super Kings at home, went away and won by a bigger margin against them. We had found the momentum. Sadly, a defeat against the Capitals derailed our storm. 

It put us in a territory where we simply had to win the last two games to stand a chance of qualification. We won the first, in a tense run chase against the Sunrisers Eastern Cape. It meant we had to win the last game with a bonus point. We tried. Gave it our all. But it wasn’t to be. It wasn’t our day. This wasn’t our year. 

This Blue and Gold might be down right now, but we know the power it possesses to bounce back from the dead. We are proud of this team. We are proud of the fight they showed. We are proud of the grit they displayed. Until next season…

This is MI City. This is MI Team. This is MI Pride. We are MI Cape Town.