The preceding day’s events meant that the result of Cape Town’s final pool match, against the North West University Pukke, was of academic interest only. As Pukke the day before had cruised to their fourth straight win in the competition (three of them by bonus point-margins) while Cape Town simultaneously crashed to their first defeat, the former had consequently already won Section Two and thus qualified for the Final, regardless of what happened here – even had Cape Town won the game with a bonus point, they still could not have overhauled the students on the points log.
Winning the toss, Cape Town elected to field – the first time in this year’s competition that...