AB de Villiers led from the front as Eagles won the inaugural edition of the 3TC Solidarity Cup on Saturday. The innovative 3 Team Cricket marked the return of live sport in South Africa for the first time since March. The match was put together to raise funds for the Hardship Fund, a joint Cricket South Africa (CSA) project aimed at providing relief to those affected by COVID-19.
The Eagles got profited from a swashbuckling knock by De Villiers and his century stand with Aiden Markram went a long way towards cementing the gold medal for their side.
ABD smashed a 24-ball 61 while Markram registered a score of 70 from 33 balls and helped their side score 160/4 across the two halves of six overs each that they faced.
The Eagles were 22 runs ahead of the 138/3 posted by silver medalists Kites and 47 ahead of the Kingfishers (113/5), the team that won the bronze.
During the match, De Villiers saw his shoe coming out in a funny turn of events as he tried to run for a single of the bowling of young Thando Ntini.
Here’s the video:
Thando antini💣🔥#3TCricket #3teamcricket #3TC #antini pic.twitter.com/d1Lu1v96Bq
— Tigers Corridor (@CorridorTigers) July 18, 2020
Earlier, ahead of the start of the match, all players and officials showed their support towards the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement as they wore black armbands and then took a knee in support of the campaign.
✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿#BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/1iS9gDNDbz
— Cricket South Africa (@OfficialCSA) July 18, 2020
Prior to the start of play in the #SolidarityCup the players and officials took the knee in support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. pic.twitter.com/S9ngUtYxU9
— SuperSport 🏆 (@SuperSportTV) July 18, 2020