SA20 begins on January 10 in Cape Town with a match between the Paarl Royals and MI Cape Town, the home team. The SA20 will also feature four additional teams: the Jo’burg Super Kings, SunRisers Eastern Cape, Pretoria Capitals, and Durban’s Super Giants.
The six franchises of South Africa’s new Twenty20 league are owned by Indian Premier League team owners, as indicated by their names. This new competition includes not only the teams but also a lot of IPL stars.
IPL 2023 will begin in March, one month after the conclusion of the inaugural T20 league in South Africa. Before the IPL begins, this tournament gives a number of IPL stars a chance to gain confidence.
The following three players will attempt to regain their form in time for the IPL 2023 in SA20. Several prominent players are currently struggling with form.
#1 Faf du Plessis – Captain of Jo’burg Super Kings in SA20
Faf du Plessis, Jo’burg Super Kings captain in SA20 Faf du Plessis will lead the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2023. Due to the fact that RCB does not own a franchise in SA20, Chennai Super Kings, du Plessis’s former IPL team, were able to draft him into the Jo’burg Super Kings team for the SA20 tournament. The franchise based in Johannesburg will be led by the South African.
Du Plessis plays primarily T20 cricket these days because he is not a member of the South African national team. He played for the Perth Scorchers in the first phase of the BBL 2022/23 and the Caribbean Premier League the year before.
In the CPL, Faf did well, but his BBL performance was not quite up to par. In seven matches, the right-handed batter only scored half a century. For the Perth Scorchers, he did not reach double digits in three of his last four innings. The RCB skipper will try to get back to his best before the IPL 2023 starts.
#2 Kagiso Rabada, MI Cape Town
Kagiso Rabada is an IPL player who plays for the Punjab Kings. In SA20 2023, there is no team for even the Punjab-based franchise. In the brand-new league in South Africa, Rabada will compete for the MI Cape Town team.
In recent times, the right-arm pacer has struggled to perform well in the game’s shortest format. He had a forgettable T20 World Cup season in which he didn’t take a wicket in most of the games. Rabada’s best score against Bangladesh was 1/24.
Rabada will try to make the most of the opportunity to play in a T20 league on his home turf before IPL 2023.
#3 Tristan Stubbs, SunRisers Eastern Cape
Tristan Stubbs is an IPL player who will wear the SunRisers Eastern Cape uniform in SA20 2023. At the new league’s first player auction, Stubbs was the most expensive signing.
During the T20 World Cup, the young wicketkeeper only scored 31 runs in four innings at a strike rate of 100, which is not his best performance in T20 cricket. How he does in the upcoming tournaments will be interesting to watch.