Cricket South Africa announces revised fixtures for 2020-21 season

Johannesburg: Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced the revised schedule for the competitions of three franchises for the 2020-21 season on Friday (October 9), as well as the senior provincial fixtures for both men and women. The competition was disrupted due to the spread of coronavirus.

According to the official statement by CSA, the teams will play a T20 competition in addition to the One-Day Cup and the CSA four-day franchise series backing the decision to reschedule the Mzansi Super League. The season will begin in the first week of November while domestic cricket of South Africa for both men and women will kick off at the beginning of January.

“We are pleased that no matches have been reduced despite the late start to the season,” mentioned CSA acting chief executive Kugandrie Govender. “Both the four-day series and the Momentum One-Day Cup will have the six competing teams divided into two pools of three teams each. They will play a double round of fixtures against teams in their own pool and a single round of cross-pool matches.”

“This provides for a minimum of seven matches for each franchise and these will be followed by a five-day final at the conclusion of the CSA Four-Day franchise series contested by the two teams topping its respective pool,” she added.

“In the One-Day Cup after the conclusion of the preliminary round teams ending 1st. and 2nd. in each pool will contest a cross-pool semi-final each with the respective winners progressing through to the final,” she further said.

“The T20 competition will be played over a single round (5 matches) with the top two teams qualifying for the final. I cannot stress enough the importance of our domestic system and the important role it plays in our talent development pipeline for the Proteas. One only has to look at the number of players who made successful international debuts in the three formats last season,” Govender signed off.