The 2017 Africa T20 Cup was the third edition of the
Africa T20 Cup
The Africa T20 Cup was a Twenty20 cricket tournament organised by Cricket South Africa. It featured a combination of South African provincial teams and teams representing other African countries, including Kenya, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. It ran for ...
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Twenty20 cricket
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single inning ...
tournament. It was held in South Africa from 25 August to 25 September 2017, as a curtain-raiser to the 2017–18 South African domestic season.
Organised by
Cricket South Africa
Cricket South Africa (CSA) is the governing body for both professional and amateur cricket in South Africa. In 1991, the separate South African Cricket Union and the South African Cricket Board merged to form the United Cricket Board of South Afr ...
, it featured thirteen South African provincial teams, as well as national representative sides of
Kenya
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Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
and
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
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The sixteen participating teams were split into four pools of four, with the teams from each pool playing all of their matches at one ground across a single weekend.
Defending champions
Eastern Province were drawn in Pool B.
Namibia won all three games in Group A, progressing to the semi-finals of the tournament for the first time.
Gauteng
Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'.
Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...
also progressed to the semi-finals for the first time, after winning Group B.
They topped the table with a bonus-point win in their final group match, knocking out defending champions Eastern Province in the process.
In Group C,
Free State progressed, after beating
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi T ...
by 62 runs in the final match of the group.
progressed from Group D after beating
Border
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by six wickets in their final group fixture.
In the first semi-final, KwaZulu-Natal Inland beat Gauteng by 8 wickets to progress to the final.
They were joined in the final with Free State, who beat Namibia by 10 wickets.
Andries Gous
Andries Gous (born 24 November 1993) is a South African cricketer. He was included in the Free State cricket team for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup. In August 2017, he was named in Jo'burg Giants' squad for the first season of the T20 Global League. Th ...
scored a century, the second-ever in the Africa T20 Cup.
KwaZulu-Natal Inland won the tournament, beating Free State by 6 wickets in the final.
Pool A
Squads
Points table
Fixtures
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Pool B
Squads
Points table
Fixtures
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Pool C
Squads
Points table
Fixtures
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Pool D
Squads
Points table
Fixtures
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Finals
Semi-finals
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Final
References
External links
Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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2017 in Kenyan cricket
2017 in Namibian sport
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2017 in Zimbabwean cricket
International cricket competitions in 2017