Sunrisers Eastern Cape is a South African professional

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franchise

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that will compete in the inaugural season of

SA20 SA20 is a Twenty20 franchise cricket tournament in South Africa, organised by Cricket South Africa (CSA) and first contested in 2023. It is contested by six teams based in cities around the country. The first winners of the tournament were Su ...

tournament. The team is based in

Gqeberha Gqeberha (), formerly Port Elizabeth and colloquially often referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, So ...

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, and was formed in 2022. The team's home-ground is the

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. The team is coached by

Adrian Birrell Adrian Victor "Adi" Birrell (born 8 December 1960) in Grahamstown, Cape Province is a South African cricket coach and former first class cricketer. A leg break bowler, Birrell took 75 wickets at 30.16 in his career for Eastern Province, before ...

. The tournament is scheduled to be played from 10 January to February 2023. The franchise is owned by the Indian SUN Group.

Current squad

The franshise's squad for the first season of thecompetition is: * Players with international caps are listed in bold * denotes a player who is unavailable for rest of the season.

Administration and support staff

External Links

Sunrisers section
at the SA20 website.

References

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