The South African T20 League, recently formed by Cricket South Africa (CSA) is a six-team tournament scheduled for 2024. The league like any other T20 League collaborates a plethora of domestic players with a host of international talent. The SA20 League is the brainchild of the CSA President Graeme Smith. Interestingly enough, every single team in the league is owned by an IPL Franchise. Swipe down to know all about the SA20 Auction
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SA20 League Teams and Owners
The SA20 league consists of six teams. The teams and their owners are
Team Name | City | Stadium | Owner |
Johannesburg Super Kings | Johannesburg | Wanderers | Chennai Super Kings Limited |
Durban Supergiants | Durban | Kingsmead | RPSG Sports Limited |
MI Cape Town | Capetown | Newlands | Reliance Industries Limited |
Sunrisers Eastern Cape | Gqerhba | St George’s Park | Sun TV Network Limited |
Pretoria Capitals | Pretoria | Centurion | JSW Sports |
Paarl Royals | Paarl | Boland Park | Royals Sports Group |
SA20 League Pre-Auction Signings
MI Capetown: Kagiso Rabada, Rashid Khan, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Dewald Brevis
Paarl Royals: Jos Butler, David Miller, Obed McCoy, Corbin Bosch
Pretoria Capitals: Anrich Nortje, Migael Pretorius
Johannesburg Super Kings: Francois du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Gerald Coetzee, Romario Shepherd, Mahesh theekshana
Sunrisers Eastern Cape: Aiden Markram, Ottneil Baartman
Durban’s Super Giants: Jason holder, Quinton de Kock, Kyle Mayers, Reece Topley, Prenelan Subrayen
SA20 League Auction Where To Watch, Timings
The Auction is televeised live through SA T20 YouTube Channel. Apart from that, JioTV AND Sport18 are televising the event. The Auction starts from 5:30 pm IST and 2pm SAST from the CapeTown International Convention Centre.
SA20 Franchise Players and Purse
The Auction features 533 players including 248 South Africans. However, any team can only take 17 players form the hammer. Nevertheless, There was a pre-Auction as mentioned above where a team can select max of 5 players. A team is allowed to have 7 Overseas players with 4 on the field at any time.
The franchises have $2 million as their purse. They can buy as much as the max limit of 17 with the money in the purse. The base prices for the players in the auction are: 17.5 lakh Rand, 17 lakh rand, and 8 Lakh Rand.
SA20 Remaining Purses
MI Cape Town: R 17,00M; Joburg Super Kings: R 20,74M; Paarl Royals: R 20,74M; Pretoria Capitals: R 28,05M; Durban’s Super Giants: R 17,00M; Sunrisers Eastern Cape: R 28,05M