Cape Town had actually started quite well after the favourites had elected to bat first, restricting Police to just eight off the first two overs. Thereafter, however, Euley found his range with four fours over the course of the next four overs, while opening partner Zahid Allie overcame his own slow start (he managed just six from his first 16 balls faced) to blaze six fours off his next twelve balls received. As a result, Police charged passed fifty in the sixth over, and had posted 76 from the first nine when Cape Town finally claimed Allie's wicket for 37 off 36 balls.
The loss of the first wicket had no appreciable effect on Euley though, who three overs later cracked his first six to reach a 32-ball fifty. The blow raised Police's 100 as well, off just 73 balls. With his partner turning over the strike with regular singles, Euley's eighth four struck three balls after hitting his second six brought up the fifty partnership for the second wicket off just 41 deliveries, whereupon two more sixes flew off the blade of Euley's bat from his next three balls faced.
Thus Police were sitting very prettily at 140 for one in the 17th over, but once Euley fell immediately thereafter for 80 from 50 balls, left-arm spinner Wayne Hendricks pulled things back in commendable fashion. Picking up two wickets in successive balls at the cost of just two singles in each of his last two overs, the final onslaught that Police had set themselves up to launch never happened as a result - instead, they managed just nine runs from their last three overs, while losing those four wickets to Hendricks in the process.
Still, their final total of 152 was no mean score, and with Cape Town losing a wicket in each of the first two overs they were unable to challenge it. Hendricks completed a satisfactory match with a run-a-ball 21 after opening the batting, but he was the first of medium-pacer Walleed Enos's two wickets in a frugal spell that cost just 17 boundaryless runs from his four overs.
That left the asking rate at a nigh-impossible 81 needed from the last seven overs, and the remaining batting perished in vain attempts to achieve it. Luke Petersen managed joint next-best score with 21 from 18 balls, but he was the second of the two stumpings gained by off-spinner Dane Piedt in his first two overs. In fact the spinner kept things remarkably tight, such that had Francois Vermaak not hit him for two sixes in the game's penultimate over en route to a breezy 22 from just ten balls, Cape Town would not have found the boundary at all in their last eight overs.
