How many games are in SA20? The Joburg Super Kings will be based at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. They are owned by the Chennai Super Kings Limited, the entity with founded the Indian Premier Leagues’ Chennai Super Kings. Representing the Capital City, The Pretoria Capitals, part of JSW Sports, will be based at SuperSport Park in Centurion. Durban’s Super Giants, an entity of RPSG Sports Private Limited, will be Ethekwini’s leading outfit. In Gqberha, the Sunrisers Eastern Cape of Sun TV Network will make South Africa’s oldest Test venue, St George’s Park, their home. The Paarl Royals, part of the Royals Sports Group, will be playing in front of the old Boland Park faithful. The IPL’s most successful team, Mumbai Indians, and the Reliance Industries Ltd, have branched out to form the MI Cape Town, who will be playing at the picturesque Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town. SA20, known as the Betway SA20 for sponsorship reasons, is a Twenty20 franchise cricket tournament in South Africa, organised by Cricket South Africa (CSA) and first contested during the 2022–23 season. It is contested by six teams based in cities around the country. The first winners of the tournament were Sunrisers Eastern Cape. History[edit] Cricket South Africa established the franchise T20 Global League in 2017. The inaugural season was deferred by a year due to the lack of a broadcast deal and title sponsor and in June 2018 was replaced by the Mzansi Super League, a league featuring six CSA-owned teams.[5] Both the leagues became unsuccessful. The MSL ran for only two seasons, the 2020 and 2021 editions being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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 SuperSport has a 30% share and former Indian Premier League (IPL) Chief Operating Officer Sundar Raman, the remaining 20%. All six of the teams were bought by franchises from the IPL. In July 2022, CSA announced that the One Day International series against Australia due to be played in January 2023 would be cancelled in order for SA20 to go ahead. In August 2022, Graeme Smith was announced as the commissioner for the tournament. Later in the month, the marquee players for the first season were announced. In December 2023 Cricket South Africa announced that it would send a makeshift Test team, comprising players with little or no Test cricket experience, to its scheduled two-Test tour of New Zealand in February 2024, to allow its best players to remain in South Africa to compete in the SA20. The decision was widely criticised. 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 Indian Premier League to do so. Each team purchases a squad of 17 players, with the opportunity of signing up to five players prior to the auction: three international players; one South African international player; and one uncapped South African player. Teams The six teams are all owned by existing Indian Premier League franchise owners. JSK DSG MICT PRC SEC PR class=notpageimage| Location of SA20 teams Team City Home ground Owner Captain Head coach MI Cape Town Cape Town, Western Cape Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Indiawin Sports Kieron Pollard Robin Peterson[17] Durban’s Super Giants Durban, Kwazulu-Natal Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban RPSG Group Quinton De Kock Lance Klusener[18] Joburg Super Kings Johannesburg, Gauteng Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg India Cements Faf du Plessis Stephen Fleming[19] Paarl Royals Paarl, Western Cape Boland Park, Paarl Royals Sports Group David Miller JP Duminy[20] Pretoria Capitals Pretoria, Gauteng Centurion Park, Centurion JSW Group Wayne Parnell Graham Ford[21] Sunrisers Eastern Cape Gqeberha, Eastern Cape St George’s Park Cricket Ground, Gqeberha SUN Group Aiden Markram Adrian Birrell[22] Tournament season and results SA20 season winner Season Final No. of teams Player of the series Venue Winners Result Runners-up 2022–23 Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Sunrisers Eastern Cape 137/6 (16.2 overs) Sunrisers Eastern Cape won by 4 wickets Scorecard Pretoria Capitals 135 (19.3 overs) 6 Aiden Markram (Sunrisers Eastern Cape) 2023–24 6 Teams’ performances Season 2023 2024 Durban’s Super Giants 5th Joburg Super Kings SF MI Cape Town 6th Paarl Royals SF Pretoria Capitals RU Sunrisers Eastern Cape C C: champions RU: runner-up SF or PO: team qualified for the semi-final stage of the competition Broadcasting SuperSport, Sky Sports and the Sports18 network broadcast the tournament in South Africa, the United Kingdom and India respectively. As of January 2023, Betway SA20 and Sky Sports have a five-year contract to broadcast the T20 cricket league.