The Nissan Shield was a

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tournament in

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. This was a knockout competition based on the English Gillette Cup. The first one was played in the 1969-70 season and was won by an

Eddie Barlow Edgar John Barlow (12 August 1940 – 30 December 2005) was a South African cricketer (an all rounder). Barlow was born in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, and played first-class cricket for Transvaal and Eastern Province from 1959–60 to 1 ...

XI representing

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. The tournament was known as : * Gillette Cup 1969/70 - 1976/77 * Datsun Shield 1977/78 - 1982/83 * Nissan Shield 1983/84 - 1991/92 * Total Power Series 1992-93

Format

The competition was a 60-over per side knockout tournament. It featured section A and B

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teams competing in the first round of eight, with the winners going through to the semi-finals, with a final at the

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. A South Africa African XI composed of Black African players competed in 1975-76 and 1976-77. This inexperienced team lost their two games by over 200 runs with

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scoring 202 not out for

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in 1975. For the 1980-81 season semi-final matches were the best of three. In 1981-82 the matches were 55 overs per side. For 1986-87 and 1987-88 there were two groups of four teams with the top two teams going through to the semi-finals. From the 1989-90 season minor teams and country teams were admitted to make a first round of 16 teams. In the 1990-91 season substitutes were permitted with 14 players named and 6 substitutes allowed. This was introduced to "encourage inventiveness and enterprise" Can 12-a-side format replace substitution?
/ref> The following season, 1991–92, the competition reverted to 11 per side as South Africa had been re-admitted to the ICC. The final season's, 1992–93, matches were 50 overs per side. The Benson and Hedges Series, now known as the

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, is South Africa's domestic one-day tournament. Transvaal was the most successful team. Their "Mean Machine" side, mainly led by

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, won the competition seven times in eight years between 1979 and 1986.

Winners

Gillette Cup * 1969-70 Eddie Barlow XI (

) * 1970-71

* 1971-72 Eastern Province * 1972-73

* 1973-74

Transvaal Transvaal is a historical geographic term associated with land north of (''i.e.'', beyond) the Vaal River in South Africa. A number of states and administrative divisions have carried the name Transvaal. * South African Republic (1856–1902; af, ...

* 1974-75

* 1975-76 Eastern Province * 1976-77

Datsun Shield * 1977-78

Rhodesia Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...

* 1978-79

* 1979-80

* 1980-81

* 1981-82

* 1982-83

Nissan Shield * 1983-84

* 1984-85

* 1985-86

* 1986-87

* 1987-88 Eastern Province * 1988-89

* 1989-90 Eastern Province * 1990-91

* 1991-92

Orange Free State The Orange Free State ( nl, Oranje Vrijstaat; af, Oranje-Vrystaat;) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeat ...

Total Power Series * 1992-93

Transvaal won 9 times, Western Province and Eastern Province 4 each, Natal 3, Orange Free State 2, Rhodesia and Eddie Barlow XI 1 each.

References

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External links

Cricket Archive
South African domestic cricket competitions