SA 20 - 2025/26 edition

[rollingstoned]

Great atmosphere and quality as always. Prefer this to bbl and any other league always. 

[rollingstoned]

Kanglu league and UAE PL are also going on now along with big bash and Kiwi league. I stead of boxing day test at Cape Town they are playing the  Sa20 this year. 

[vvvslaxman]

37 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

Kanglu league and UAE PL are also going on now along with big bash and Kiwi league. I stead of boxing day test at Cape Town they are playing the  Sa20 this year. 

Most of them are fix leagues.

[Gollum]

Easily the 2nd best league in the cricket world right now, both in terms of quality and crowd atmosphere. Will check highlights mostly but great development, world cricket is in a better place when RSA is going strong. 

[Gollum]

In the future want some form of representation of Indian cricket in this league. Anyway it is just an extension of IPL (all teams have IPL owners), and quality is top notch. 

 

Vaibhav, Arya, Simarjeet types could hone their skills in this league instead of our joke domestic fixtures. 

Edited December 27, 2025 by Gollum

[Gollum]

Rivaldo Moonsamy, whatta name !!!!!

 

Hope nobody with Pawkee background is allowed in any of these Indian owned leagues. Even if that person is from USA or Netherlands, avoid. 

[vvvslaxman]

30 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Easily the 2nd best league in the cricket world right now, both in terms of quality and crowd atmosphere. Will check highlights mostly but great development, world cricket is in a better place when RSA is going strong. 

DJ was amazing and also the chemistry between crowd and DJ is also amazing. I don't think we have any good DJs in the IPL. Need to improve. ALso the vibe is great because of the casual seating on grass banks .

[Gollum]

8 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

DJ was amazing and also the chemistry between crowd and DJ is also amazing. I don't think we have any good DJs in the IPL. Need to improve. ALso the vibe is great because of the casual seating on grass banks .

Only comparable venue is Dharamsala. Had a great DJ for the Eng test last year. Lots of foreigners in the crowds (5000+ right @Lone Wolf?), electric atmosphere for the entire duration of the test. 

 

From the SC, only Dharamsala and Galle can match up to the aesthetics of the best SENA venues. 

 

IPL should also go back to Dharamsala, Punjab had some of its home games there earlier. 

Edited December 27, 2025 by Gollum

[Lone Wolf]

27 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Only comparable venue is Dharamsala. Had a great DJ for the Eng test last year. Lots of foreigners in the crowds (5000+ right @Lone Wolf?), electric atmosphere for the entire duration of the test. 

 

From the SC, only Dharamsala and Galle can match up to the aesthetics of the best SENA venues. 

 

IPL should also go back to Dharamsala, Punjab had some of its home games there earlier. 

SA is actually best place to play T20 cricket.  The grounds, crowds and overall vibe is just too good.

 

Blacks, YTs, Desis are all in attendance.  You don't see that anywhere else.

 

 

Dharmasala is good but crowd facilities aren't that great.  Maybe they have improved on it.  My last visit there was a while back.  May attend an IPL game if it happens this time around.

Everytime England tours here should be a game there for tourism factor alone.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2025 by Lone Wolf

[Gollum]

8 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

SA is actually best place to play T20 cricket.  The grounds, crowds and overall vibe is just too good.

Pity it hasn't hosted a T20 WC since the epic 2007 edition. Instead of dead/dull UAE which also has no cricket culture to speak of, RSA should host big tournaments. 

[rollingstoned]

Faf is such a gun fielder even at this age. 

[rollingstoned]

Madrasi franchise won it's opening game this time. Lesser Jansen with career best bowling figures. 

[vvvslaxman]

Fortuine bowled brilliantly. I think Indian spinners should start bowling these slower ones in between their darts.

[Nikhil_cric]

2 hours ago, Gollum said:

Pity it hasn't hosted a T20 WC since the epic 2007 edition. Instead of dead/dull UAE which also has no cricket culture to speak of, RSA should host big tournaments. 

No ICC tournament since 2009 Champions Trophy. 

 

Absolutely shocking 

[rollingstoned]

Good finish by hermann. Paarl is not a chasing ground. 

[vvvslaxman]

This is a tough ground. Way above par

[vvvslaxman]

This Tribe dude looks like Andre Siddarth. Similar specs.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

16 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

This is a tough ground. Way above par

It puts that Jordan Hermann knock into context. Monster knock. 

 

Producing a lot of quality cricketers these days. 

 

 

[Suhaan]

19 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

DJ was amazing and also the chemistry between crowd and DJ is also amazing. I don't think we have any good DJs in the IPL. Need to improve. ALso the vibe is great because of the casual seating on grass banks .

SA have ditched there traditional boxing day tests for this

I can understand it is certainly pumping money and high quality players into their system but in lthe longer run they too will suffer with too many flashy batters in red ball like we see today with Aus,Eng,Ind

[Gollum]

Just now, Suhaan said:

SA have ditched there traditional boxing day tests for this

I can understand it is certainly pumping money and high quality players into their system but in lthe longer run they too will suffer with too many flashy batters in red ball like we see today with Aus,Eng,Ind

Only this year bro. From next season, things will be back to normal and SA 20 will be held in January after New Year's test in Cape Town. 

 

If anything, RSA and NZ have increased their number of tests, and started playing outside WTC cycle unlike India.