Nelson Mandela Bay Giants
Appearance
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Personnel | ||
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Captain | JJ Smuts | |
Coach | Eric Simons | |
Team information | ||
City | Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa | |
Founded | 2018 | |
Home ground | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth | |
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Nelson Mandela Bay Giants is a franchise team of the South African Mzansi Super League Twenty20 cricket tournament. The team is based at the St George's Park Cricket Ground in Port Elizabeth. The coach is Eric Simons.[1]
2018 season
Squad
The squad for the inaugural 2018 season is:[2]
- Players with international caps are listed in bold.
- * denotes a player who is currently unavailable for selection.
- * denotes a player who is unavailable for rest of the season
No. | Name | Nat | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Signed year | Notes | |
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Batsmen | ||||||||
14 | Christiaan Jonker | ![]() |
24 September 1986 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2018 | ||
15 | Marco Marais | ![]() |
17 October 1993 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | 2018 | ||
20 | Jason Roy | ![]() |
21 July 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | Overseas | |
All-rounders | ||||||||
2 | Chris Morris | ![]() |
30 April 1987 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | ||
21 | JJ Smuts | ![]() |
21 August 1988 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2018 | Captain | |
27 | Ryan ten Doeschate | ![]() |
30 June 1980 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2019 | ||
28 | Farhaan Behardien | ![]() |
9 October 1983 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2019 | ||
66 | Grant Thomson | ![]() |
18 March 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2019 | ||
— | Onke Nyaku | ![]() |
26 September 1994 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2018 | ||
Wicket-keepers | ||||||||
3 | Matthew Breetzke | ![]() |
17 July 1989 | Right-handed | — | 2019 | ||
20 | Heino Kuhn | ![]() |
1 April 1984 | Right-handed | — | 2018 | ||
51 | Ben Dunk | ![]() |
11 March 1987 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | 2019 | Overseas | |
Bowlers | ||||||||
3 | Junior Dala | ![]() |
29 December 1989 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2018 | ||
4 | Akhona Mnyaka | ![]() |
8 July 1990 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast | 2019 | ||
14 | Beuran Hendricks | ![]() |
8 July 1990 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | 2019 | ||
17 | Nandre Burger | ![]() |
30 March 1993 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | 2019 | ||
99 | Imran Tahir | ![]() |
28 March 1979 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2018 | ||
— | Dyllan Matthews | ![]() |
April 14, 1997 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2019 |
Matches
The MSL released the full fixture list on 18 October 2018.[3]
(H) Jozi Stars
124/7 (20 overs) |
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Nelson Mandela Bay Giants
127/5 (18 overs) |
- Nelson Mandela Bay Giants won the toss and elected to field.
(H) Cape Town Blitz
175/6 (20 overs) |
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Nelson Mandela Bay Giants
132/6 (16 overs) |
- Cape Town Blitz won the toss and elected to bat.
- Light failure stopped play during the Nelson Mandela Bay Giants' innings. Target reduced to 145 runs in 16 overs.
Durban Heat
127/6 (20 overs) |
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Nelson Mandela Bay Giants (H)
131/1 (17.3 overs) |
- Nelson Mandela Bay Giants won the toss and elected to field.
Nelson Mandela Bay Giants
143/9 (20 overs) |
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Tshwane Spartans (H)
35/3 (5.1 overs) |
- Tshwane Spartans won the toss and elected to field.
- Lightning stopped play during Tshwane Spartans' innings.
References
- ^ Mohamed, Afshak (15 October 2018). "Cape Town Blitz, Jozi Stars head up Mzansi Super League, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle among big names | IOL". iol.co.za. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
- ^ "REVEALED: Mzansi Super League - full squad lists". Sport24. 2018-10-17. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
- ^ "CT Blitz to play Tshwane Spartans in MSL opener". Sport24. Retrieved 18 October 2018.