The new SA20 league enjoyed a successful start and seems to be capturing the interest of cricket fans 🏏 Read more here ➡️
Fans look on during the SA20 match between Sunrisers Eastern Cape and the Pretoria Capitals in Gqeberha. Picture: SA20/Sportzpics/Gallo Images
T20 leagues are always accompanied by hype and hyperbole, but they succeed or fail on the strength of the cricket and the quality of the players involved. Getting such brilliant international cricketers involved in the SA20 certainly ticks that box, as was the insistence that the Proteas form a strong base for the franchises.was not the close thriller league commissioner Graeme Smith and his fellow organisers might have wanted, the quality of cricket on display was truly impressive and exciting.
Englishman Phil Salt announced himself to South African fans with an innings of real quality that led the Pretoria Capitals to victory over the Sunrisers Eastern Cape, but it was the magnificent fast bowling of Anrich Nortje that is going to live long in the memory.Victories at the coast for the two Highveld teams are going to be invaluable as the competition progresses, one feels.
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