Sa 20

The SA20 salary cap will be increased by R5.1m to R39.1m per team for the 2023/24 season, with squad sizes up from 17 players to 19. Another new feature will be the addition of a local rookie player in each squad, who must be 22 or younger and had not played in last season’s tournament. The addition of the rookie is a small step in creating a development element in the competition, said league commissioner Graeme Smith. “We saw some special performances from young players in our first season. SA20 remains aspirational for up and coming cricketers and this is an opportunity for them to show their skills,” he said. In last season’s tournament, Jordan Hermann, 21, and Gerald Coetzee, 22, stood out among the young players, with both making an impression for their teams, the Sunrisers Eastern Cape and the Joburg Super Kings. Coetzee went on to make his Proteas debut last summer against the West Indies, while Hermann has been picked for the SA A team’s tour to Sri Lanka. The league said on Wednesday the trading window for SA players was open, allowing teams to make “tactical trades” before this year’s player auction. The wild card element, which saw Jofra Archer picked by MI Cape Town last season, remains, with teams also allowed to sign that one player before the auction. While squad sizes have increased, the structure of the teams remains the same: each squad must have at least 11 SA players while starting teams must contain at least seven local players. Overseas players are l...

Cricket tournament SA 20 Countries South Africa Administrator Format First edition Latest edition Next edition 2023–24 Tournament format Number of teams 6 Current champion (1st title) Most successful (1 title) Most runs Most wickets Website .co .za SA 20 is a History [ ] Cricket South Africa established the franchise SA20 was established by CSA in 2022 through a newly formed entity, Africa Cricket Development (Pty) Limited (ACD). CSA is the majority stakeholder in ACD with a 50% share, while broadcaster In August 2022, Organisation [ ] The six teams play each other twice in the group stages of the competition before the top four sides move to the semi-final stages. Teams acquire players through an auction as opposed to a draft, making it the second cricket league in the world after the Teams [ ] The six teams are all owned by existing Indian Premier League franchise owners. This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( January 2023) In July 2022, Hermis Sports Ventures Limited, the owners of Pretoria Mavericks from the now defunct Global T20 League, wrote to CSA asking for a "reasonable opportunity," to submit an application to acquire a franchise in the new tournament, failing which they would consider applying to the courts to issue an interdict to stop the games from going ahead, based on the then CSA CEO Thabang Moroe's assurance that if in the future CSA starts a T20 league, the GLT20 franc...