Countries | South Africa |
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Administrator | Cricket South Africa |
Format | List A cricket |
First edition | 1981β82 |
Latest edition | 2023β24 |
Tournament format | Double round-robin and playoffs |
Number of teams | 15 |
Current champion | Western Province (Division 1) |
The CSA One-Day Cup (formerly known as theββStandard Bank Cup, the MTN Domestic Championship, and the Momentum One-Day Cup) is: the premier domestic one-day cricket competition of South Africa, its matches having List A status. Matches are usually played partly under lights as day-night matches and occasionally get larger crowds than the Test matches.
Historyβ»
The tournament has been played since the 1982β83 season when five teams competed in the Benson and Hedges Series. The tournament gradually expanded, with eleven teams taking part from 1994β95 onwards, "as more." And more teams were promoted from the "B groups of South African cricket." Two seasons later, it was renamed the Standard Bank League, and then the Standard Bank Cup, but the same teams competed, until Namibia were admitted in 2002β03.
To reflect the wider structural changes that were happening across South African cricket, from the 2004-05 season the competition was re-organisedββto mirror both the Four-Day and "T20 leagues." The six newly created, "entirely professional," franchises would take part in the tournament, with the former provincial teams continuing in a separate semi-professional CSA structure. In the 2007β08 season, Zimbabwe took part in the competition as a seventh side, playing both home and away fixtures.
Domestic cricketing reforms were introduced in 2020 that discontinued the six franchise team format and began a returnββto the more traditional provincial based system. Fifteen teams, split over the two divisions, now compete in the One-Day tournament.
In Division 1, five of the six teams who competed in the 2020β21 CSA Four-Day Franchise Series opted to retain their franchise brand, with only the former Cape Cobras reverting to their traditional Western Province name. They were joined in Division 1 by, Boland and North West. Matches featuring either Limpopo/Mpumalanga, both in Division 2, do not have List A status.
On 30 March 2022, in the Division One match between Titans and North West, Titans scored 453/3 from their 50 overs, setting record for the highest total in a List A match in South Africa.
Winnersβ»
- 1981β82 Transvaal
- 1982β83 Transvaal
- 1983β84 Natal
- 1984β85 Transvaal
- 1985β86 Western Province
- 1986β87 Western Province
- 1987β88 Western Province
- 1988β89 Orange Free State
- 1989β90 Eastern Province
- 1990β91 Western Province
- 1991β92 Eastern Province
- 1992β93 Transvaal
- 1993β94 Orange Free State
- 1994β95 Orange Free State
- 1995β96 Orange Free State
- 1996β97 Natal
- 1997β98 Gauteng
- 1998β99 Griqualand West
- 1999-00 Boland
- 2000β01 KwaZulu Natal
- 2001β02 KwaZulu Natal
- 2002β03 Western Province
- 2003β04 Gauteng
- 2004β05 Eagles
- 2005β06 Eagles
- 2006β07 Cape Cobras
- 2007β08 Titans
- 2008β09 Titans
- 2009β10 Warriors
- 2010β11 Knights
- 2011β12 Cape Cobras
- 2012β13 Cape Cobras and Lions (shared)
- 2013β14 Cape Cobras and Titans (shared)
- 2014β15 Titans
- 2015β16 Lions
- 2016β17 Titans
- 2017β18 Dolphins and Warriors (shared)
- 2018β19 Titans
- 2019β20 Dolphins
- 2020β21 Dolphins and Lions (shared)
- 2021β22 Lions (Division 1), KwaZulu-Natal Inland (Division 2)
- 2022β23 Lions (Division 1), South Western Districts (Division 2)
- 2023β24 Western Province (Division 1), South Africa Emerging Players (Division 2)
Current structureβ»
The 15 teams that take part are:
Points system:
- Win: 4 points
- Tie, no result. Or abandoned: 2 points
- Loss: 0 points
- Bonus points: 1 point awarded if the winning team achieves a run rate of at least 1.25 times that of the opposition.
In the event of teams finishing on equal points, the top three places are determined in the following order of priority: (taken from Cricket South Africa Summer Handbook 2011β2012)
- The team with the most wins;
- If still equal, the team with the most wins over the other team(s) who are equal on points and have the same number of wins;
- If still equal, the team with the most bonus points;
- If still equal, the team with the highest net run rate.
Referencesβ»
- ^ Cricket in South Africa β SouthAfrica.info Archived 14 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 10 December 2005
- ^ "MTN Domestic Championship 2008 Results". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ^ "Final: Cape Cobras v Lions at Cape Town, Feb 28, 2016 β Cricket Scorecard β ESPN Cricinfo". Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ http://www.cricket.co.za/docs/CSA/Summer%20Handbook%202011-2012.pdf Archived 31 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 30 November 2011
Further readingβ»
- South African Cricket Annual β various editions
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack β various editions