Overview
- The tournament opens December 26 with defending champions MI Cape Town facing Durban’s Super Giants at Newlands, where MI were unbeaten last season.
- MI Cape Town retained a strong core including Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Ryan Rickelton, George Linde and Corbin Bosch.
- Nicholas Pooran has joined MI Cape Town and is viewed within the camp as a top-order replacement for Dewald Brevis, according to Kagiso Rabada.
- Dewald Brevis has moved to Pretoria Capitals for season four, with one outlet reporting his auction fee as a record figure.
- Pretoria Capitals enter under new captain Keshav Maharaj after a major overhaul featuring signings such as Andre Russell, Will Jacks and Lungi Ngidi, and the SA20 again uses a double round-robin plus playoffs format culminating in a January 25 final.