The 2018 Africa T20 Cup was the fourth and final 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 ...

, a

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tournament. It was held in South Africa in September 2018, as a curtain-raiser to the 2018–19 South African domestic season. Provincial side KwaZulu-Natal Inland were the defending champions. Organised by

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, the tournament was played between twenty teams. Sixteen of these teams had participated in previous years – thirteen South African provincial teams, national representative sides of

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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 ...

– and they were joined by South African teams

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and Mpumalanga along with

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and

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. The invitation was initially extended to

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, but they declined. Uganda's captain, Roger Mukasa, said it would give the team "a priceless chance to get international exposure" ahead of the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament. On the opening day of the tournament,

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scored an unbeaten century for

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against

in Group C. In Group D,

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scored 98 runs from 34 balls for

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, which Cricket South Africa described as "the performance of the day". On the second day, Marais scored his second century, making 106

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also scored a century, batting for

against

in Group D. In the same match, North West scored 262 runs, the second-highest score in T20 cricket. Following the conclusion of the group stage of the tournament, Easterns,

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 ...

and

had all progressed to the semi-finals of the competition. Gauteng and North West were drawn together in the first semi-final, with Border and Easterns playing each other in the second semi-final. The matches took place at

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in East London. In the first semi-final, Gauteng beat North West by 27 runs to progress to the final. They were joined by Border, after they beat Easterns by 7 wickets in the second semi-final. Gauteng won the tournament, beating Border by three wickets in the final. For the next season, the tournament was replaced with the returning CSA Provincial T20 Cup, last played in the 2015–16 season, and featuring only the South African domestic provincial teams.

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Finals

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Final

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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