Quinny comes good, but Super Giants go down to table-topping Royals in Durban

Durban's Super Giant's SA20 woes continued on Thursday as they lost at home to Paarl Royals at Kingsmead.

The Royals won the match by 5 wickets to continue their charge at the top of the log.

After a solid start from Quinton de Kock, who was promoted to open the batting for the first time this season, and Matthew Breetzke, the Super Giants were off to a solid start.

The pair posted 62 for the first wicket in 8.5 overs before Bjorn Fortuin removed Breetzke for 25 off 29 balls.

From there, the Super Giants lost their way as De Kock was caught on the boundary for 43 off 30, Kane Williamson fell for 4 and Heinrich Klaasen for 5 as the home side crashed to 81/4 after 12.2 overs.

Jon-Jon Smuts (32 off 22) and Wiaan Mulder (24 off 27) rescued the innings somewhat, putting on 49 for the 5th wicket, which allowed the Super Giants to post 142/7 in their 20 overs.

Mujeeb Ur Rahman (2/23), Fortuin (1/13) and Joe Root (1/18) were the pick of the bowlers for the Royals.

In their reply, the Royals lost Joe Root for a first ball duck, although Lhuan-dre Pretorius got the innings off to a good start, quickly reaching 25 off 13 balls before he was caught off Junior Dala to leave the visitors on 25/2 after 3.1 overs.

Rubin Hermann came in and took over from where Pretorius left off as he attacked the Super Giants' quick bowlers from the start of his innings. Together with Mitchell van Buuren, the pair put on 52 for the third wicket before Hermann was bowled by Noor Ahmad for 44 off 22 leaving the Royals 77/3 after 7.4 overs.

With their side well ahead of the required run-rate, Van Buuren (41 off 41 balls) and Royals skipper David Miller (24 off 21) could take their time chasing the remaining runs and put on a partnership of 59 to take their side to