SA20 Player Auction: Where to Watch, Live Streaming Details and all you need to know

After the massive success of franchise-based league tournaments of India, Australia, and England, South Africa is all set to get going with SA20, the inaugural edition of their franchise cricket tournament which will be played in the T20 format. The board is set to conduct the player auctions on Monday, September 19 and the players will finally get a home today.

MI Cape Town, Durban Super Giants, Johannesburg Super Kings, Paarl Royals, Pretoria Capitals, and Sunrisers Eastern Cape are the six teams competing in the tournament's inaugural season. The competition will take place in the six cities that the teams represent (Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Paarl, Pretoria, and Gqeberha) and the tournament will be held between January to February 2023.

The organizations that own the Indian Premier League teams own the franchises at the SA20. Some of them are growing their operations by acquiring franchises in the CPL and the International League T20, another new T20 league that has been introduced by the UAE (ILT20). Notably, all six teams at the SA20 are owned by IPL-based franchises.

Here’s all you need to know about the SA20 Player Auctions:

Teams

MI Cape Town, Durban Super Giants, Johannesburg Super Kings, Paarl Royals, Pretoria Capitals, and Sunrisers Eastern Cape

Registered Players

There are 533 players listed in total. There is a cap of 17 players per squad. However, through a pre-auction direct-acquisition method, the six teams have already signed on a total of 22 players from a pool of 30. They had the option to choose up to five players prior to the auction. Some of them simply selected two, while others picked all five. Those five players are limited to a maximum of three overseas (non-South African) players, one international player from South Africa, and one uncapped South African cricketer. Of the 533, 248 players will be South Africans.

Signed Players

MI Cape Town- Kagiso Rabada, Dewald Brevis, Rashid Khan, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran

Durban Super Giants- Quinton de Kock, Prenelan Subrayen, Jason Holder, Kyle Mayers, Reece Topley

Johannesburg Super Kings- Faf du Plessis, Gerald Coetzee, Moeen Ali, Maheesh Theekshana, Romario Shepherd

Paarl Royals- David Miller, Corbin Bosch, Jos Buttler, Obed McCoy

Pretoria Capitals- Anrich Nortje, Miguel Pretorius

Sunrisers Eastern Cape- Aiden Markram, Ottniel Baartman.

Purses and Squad Size

Each side is allowed to sign up a maximum of ten South African cricketers and seven overseas players, with their total purse of USD 2 million. The teams do not have a full purse as they have already signed select players in the direct acquisition. For every game, a team can deploy only four overseas players in their playing combination. The rest seven players must be South Africans.

Base Price Bracket

The highest category in the base price is RAND 1,750,000 (USD 100,000 approximately), followed by RAND 1,700,000 (USD 97,000 approximately), and RAND 850,000 (USD 48,000 approximately) which are the second and third categories respectively. A total of 52 cricketers, including well-known figures from South Africa like Dean Elgar, Temba Bavuma, and Tabraiz Shamsi, have the lowest of the top-three base prices, i.e., RAND 850,000

Of the 248 South Africans participating in the auction, 11 have set themselves the highest base price of RAND 1,750,000, including overseas players Jayden Seales and Odean Smith from the West Indies. Eoin Morgan, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Tymal Mills, David Willey, Jimmy Neesham, and Chamika Karunaratne have themselves under the second category of RAND 1,700,000.

Broadcast Details

Date: Monday, September 19, 2022

Time: 5:30 PM IST

Telecast: Sports18 1 (SD & HD)