2022–23 SA20
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Dates | 10 January – 12 February 2023 |
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Administrator(s) | Cricket South Africa |
Cricket format | Twenty20 |
Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin and playoffs |
Host(s) | ![]() |
Champions | Sunrisers Eastern Cape (1st title) |
Runners-up | Pretoria Capitals |
Participants | 6 |
Matches | 33 |
Player of the series | Aiden Markram (Sunrisers Eastern Cape) |
Most runs | Jos Buttler (Paarl Royals) (391) |
Most wickets | Roelof van der Merwe (Sunrisers Eastern Cape) (20) Anrich Nortje (Pretoria Capitals) (20) |
Official website | sa20 |
The 2022–23 SA20 (also known as Betway SA20 2023 for sponsorship reasons) was the inaugural season of the SA20, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in South Africa,[1] organised by Cricket South Africa (CSA). The tournament was played from 10 January to 12 February 2023.[2][3] SuperSport, Sky Sports and the Sports18 network broadcast the tournament in South Africa, the United Kingdom and India respectively.
In the final, Sunrisers Eastern Cape defeated Pretoria Capitals by four wickets to win the inaugural title under Aiden Markram's captaincy.
Squads
[edit]The player auction took place on 19 September 2022.[4]
Venues
[edit]Cape Town | Centurion | Durban |
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MI Cape Town | Pretoria Capitals | Durban's Super Giants |
Newlands Cricket Ground | Centurion Park | Kingsmead Cricket Ground |
Capacity: 25,000 | Capacity: 22,000 | Capacity: 25,000 |
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Gqeberha | Johannesburg | Paarl |
Sunrisers Eastern Cape | Joburg Super Kings | Paarl Royals |
St George's Park Cricket Ground | Wanderers Stadium | Boland Park |
Capacity: 19,000 | Capacity: 34,000 | Capacity: 10,000 |
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Teams and standings
[edit]Points table
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | BP | Pts | NRR |
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1 | Pretoria Capitals (R) | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 32 | 0.927 |
2 | Joburg Super Kings | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 27 | −0.111 |
3 | Sunrisers Eastern Cape (C) | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 0.316 |
4 | Paarl Royals | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | −0.293 |
5 | Durban's Super Giants | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | −0.319 |
6 | MI Cape Town | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 13 | −0.500 |
- The top four sides advanced to the semi-finals.
- Points – Win 4, No Result 2. One additional point is awarded for a win when the run rate difference is 1.25 greater than the opposing side's.
League stage
[edit]The full fixture list was released on 7 November 2022.[6]
Paarl Royals 142/7 (20 overs) | v | MI Cape Town (H) 143/2 (15.3 overs) |
- MI Cape Town won the toss and elected to field.
- MI Cape Town were awarded a bonus point for a win with a run rate difference greater than 1.25.
Joburg Super Kings 190/6 (20 overs) | v | Durban's Super Giants (H) 174/5 (20 overs) |
- Joburg Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
Pretoria Capitals 193/6 (20 overs) | v | Sunrisers Eastern Cape (H) 170/5 (20 overs) |
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape won the toss and elected to field.
Joburg Super Kings 81 (17.2 overs) | v | Paarl Royals (H) 82/3 (10.3 overs) |
- Joburg Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
- Paarl Royals were awarded a bonus point for a win with a run rate difference greater than 1.25.
(H) MI Cape Town 152/8 (20 overs) | v | Durban's Super Giants 154/5 (16.3 overs) |
- Durban's Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.
(H) Pretoria Capitals 216/6 (20 overs) | v | Sunrisers Eastern Cape 179/7 (20 overs) |
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape won the toss and elected to field.
Joburg Super Kings 105/9 (20 overs) | v | MI Cape Town (H) 107/3 (16.2 overs) |
- MI Cape Town won the toss and elected to field.
(H) Durban's Super Giants 216/4 (20 overs) | v | Paarl Royals 189/8 (20 overs) |
- Durban Super Giants won the toss and elected to bat.
MI Cape Town 158/8 (20 overs) | v | Sunrisers Eastern Cape (H) 162/6 (19.3 overs) |
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape won the toss and elected to field.
(H) Paarl Royals 169/6 (20 overs) | v | Durban's Super Giants 159/8 (20 overs) |
- Durban Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.
(H) Joburg Super Kings 168/6 (20 overs) | v | Pretoria Capitals 162 (20 overs) |
- Pretoria Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
(H) MI Cape Town 171/6 (20 overs) | v | Sunrisers Eastern Cape 172/8 (19.3 overs) |
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape won the toss and elected to field.
Joburg Super Kings 122 (15.4 overs) | v | Pretoria Capitals (H) 123/4 (13 overs) |
- Pretoria Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
- Pretoria Capitals were awarded a bonus point for a win with a run rate difference greater than 1.25.
(H) Paarl Royals 127/7 (20 overs) | v | Sunrisers Eastern Cape 131/5 (18.2 overs) |
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape won the toss and elected to field.
(H) Durban's Super Giants 80 (18.1 overs) | v | Pretoria Capitals 84/2 (7.3 overs) |
- Durban's Super Giants won the toss and elected to bat.
- Pretoria Capitals were awarded a bonus point for a win with a run rate difference greater than 1.25.
MI Cape Town 142/9 (20 overs) | v | Paarl Royals (H) 129/6 (20 overs) |
- Paarl Royals won the toss and elected to field.
(H) Sunrisers Eastern Cape 127 (18.4 overs) | v | Joburg Super Kings 128/5 (19.4 overs) |
- Joburg Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Pretoria Capitals 158/6 (20 overs) | v | Paarl Royals (H) 162/4 (19.4 overs) |
- Pretoria Capitals won the toss and elected to bat.
(H) Sunrisers Eastern Cape 210/2 (20 overs) | v | Durban's Super Giants 86 (14.4 overs) |
- Durban's Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape were awarded a bonus point for a win with a run rate difference greater than 1.25.
Pretoria Capitals 182/8 (20 overs) | v | MI Cape Town (H) 130 (18.1 overs) |
- MI Cape Town won the toss and elected to field.
- Pretoria Capitals were awarded a bonus point for a win with a run rate difference greater than 1.25.
(H) Sunrisers Eastern Cape 130/7 (20 overs) | v | Paarl Royals 131/5 (18.5 overs) |
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape won the toss and elected to bat.
Durban's Super Giants 178/6 (20 overs) | v | Joburg Super Kings (H) 182/2 (19.1 overs) |
- Joburg Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
MI Cape Town 165/5 (20 overs) | v | Durban's Super Giants (H) 169/5 (19.5 overs) |
- Durban's Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.
Paarl Royals 131/4 (15 overs) | v | |
- Joburg Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
- No further play was possible due to rain.
Sunrisers Eastern Cape 53/3 (5.2 overs) | v | |
- Durban's Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.
- No further play was possible due to rain.
MI Cape Town 159 (19.4 overs) | v | Pretoria Capitals (H) 160/9 (20 overs) |
- Pretoria Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
(H) Joburg Super Kings 160/6 (20 overs) | v | Sunrisers Eastern Cape 136/9 (20 overs) |
- Joburg Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
Durban's Super Giants 254/4 (20 overs) | v | Pretoria Capitals (H) 103 (13.5 overs) |
- Pretoria Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
- Durban's Super Giants were awarded a bonus point for a win with a run rate difference greater than 1.25.
(H) Joburg Super Kings 189/6 (20 overs) | v | MI Cape Town 113 (17.5 overs) |
- MI Cape Town won the toss and elected to field.
- Joburg Super Kings were awarded a bonus point for a win with a run rate difference greater than 1.25.
(H) Pretoria Capitals 226/5 (20 overs) | v | Paarl Royals 167/9 (20 overs) |
- Paarl Royals won the toss and elected to field.
- Pretoria Capitals were awarded a bonus point for a win with a run rate difference greater than 1.25.
Playoffs
[edit]Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
1 | Pretoria Capitals | 153/8 (20 overs) | |||||||
4 | Paarl Royals | 124 (19 overs) | |||||||
1 | Pretoria Capitals | 135 (19.3 overs) | |||||||
3 | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | 137/6 (16.2 overs) | |||||||
2 | Joburg Super Kings | 199/6 (20 overs) | |||||||
3 | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | 213/5 (20 overs) |
Semi-finals
[edit]Pretoria Capitals 153/8 (20 overs) | v | Paarl Royals 124 (19 overs) |
- Paarl Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Sunrisers Eastern Cape 213/5 (20 overs) | v | Joburg Super Kings 199/6 (20 overs) |
- Joburg Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Final
[edit]Pretoria Capitals 135 (19.3 overs) | v | Sunrisers Eastern Cape 137/6 (16.2 overs) |
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape won the toss and elected to field.
- The final was originally scheduled to take place on 11 February at 17:30 but was postponed due to rain.
Statistics
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Most runs
[edit]Player | Team | Inns | Runs | Ave | HS |
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Jos Buttler | Paarl Royals | 11 | 391 | 39.10 | 70 |
Faf du Plessis | Joburg Super Kings | 10 | 369 | 41.00 | 113* |
Aiden Markram | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | 12 | 366 | 33.27 | 100 |
Heinrich Klaasen | Durban's Super Giants | 9 | 363 | 60.50 | 104* |
Quinton de Kock | Durban's Super Giants | 9 | 271 | 30.11 | 78 |
Source: ESPN Cricinfo[12] |
Most wickets
[edit]Player | Team | Mat | Wkts | BBI |
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Roelof van der Merwe | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | 10 | 20 | 6/20 |
Anrich Nortje | Pretoria Capitals | 11 | 20 | 3/12 |
Gerald Coetzee | Joburg Super Kings | 9 | 17 | 4/24 |
Eathan Bosch | Pretoria Capitals | 12 | 15 | 3/12 |
James Neesham | Pretoria Capitals | 12 | 14 | 3/7 |
Source: ESPN Cricinfo[13] |
Awards
[edit]On 6 February 2023, the list of end of season awards was announced, to be handed out after the final match.[14][15]
Team | Award | Prize money |
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Sunrisers Eastern Cape | Champions | R35 million (US$2.37 million) |
Pretoria Capitals | Runners-up | R17.5 million (US$1.18 million) |
Sunrisers Eastern Cape | Spirit of the season | R100,000 (US$6,765.9) |
Name | Team | Award | Prize money |
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Aiden Markram | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | Player of the season | R350,000 (US$23,680.65) |
Jos Buttler | Paarl Royals | Batter of the season | R200,000 (US$13,531.8) |
Roelof van der Merwe | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | Bowler of the season | R200,000 (US$13,531.8) |
Eathan Bosch | Pretoria Capitals | Rising star | R100,000 (US$6,765.9) |
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