The 2017–18
Sunfoil Series
The CSA 4-Day Domestic Series is the domestic first class cricket competition of South Africa. The tournament is contested by teams from all nine provinces of South Africa.
First contested as the Currie Cup from 1889–90, the tournament has u ...
was a
first-class cricket
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competition that took place in South Africa from 19 September 2017 to 25 March 2018.
Knights
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were the defending champions.
There was a planned break in the competition between October and February for the first season of the
T20 Global League
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(TGL).
However, the TGL was postponed to November 2018,
with South Africa's
domestic T20 competition moved back from March 2018 to November 2017 to replace it.
After the first four rounds of fixtures, all twelve matches had ended in draws.
The first win of the tournament came in the fifth round, when
Titans
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beat
Lions
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by nine wickets.
By the end of the mid-season break in October 2017, fourteen of the fifteen matches had ended as a draw.
Ahead of the final round of fixtures, five of the six teams were still in contention of winning the title.
Titans
In Greek mythology, the Titans ( grc, οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, ''hoi Tītânes'', , ''ho Tītân'') were the pre-Olympian gods. According to the ''Theogony'' of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Ga ...
won the series, after they beat
Knights
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by four wickets in the final round of matches.
Points table
Fixtures
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
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Round 5
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Round 6
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Round 7
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Round 8
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Round 9
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Round 10
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References
External links
Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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South African domestic cricket competitions
Sunfoil Series
The CSA 4-Day Domestic Series is the domestic first class cricket competition of South Africa. The tournament is contested by teams from all nine provinces of South Africa.
First contested as the Currie Cup from 1889–90, the tournament has u ...
2017–18 South African cricket season
Sunfoil Series