MI Cape Town

Cape Town-based franchise cricket team of SA20

Cricket team

MI Cape Town

League| SA20
Personnel
Captain| Rashid Khan
Coach| Robin Peterson[1]
Bowling coach| Ryan McLaren
Owner| Reliance Industries
Team information
City| Cape Town, South Africa
Colors| Blue and Gold
Founded| 2022; 3 years ago (2022)
Home ground| Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town
Capacity| 25,000
History
Twenty20 debut| v. Paarl Royals at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town; 10 January 2023
SA20 wins| 1: 2025
Official website| MI Cape Town

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MI Cape Town is a South African professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team that competes in the SA20 tournament.[2] The team is based in Cape Town, and was formed in 2022. They are the 2025 champions of the league. The team's home-ground is the Newlands Cricket Ground. The team is coached by Robin Peterson.[3][4] MI Cape Town is owned by Indiawin Sports.[5]

## Franchise history

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In August 2022, Cricket South Africa announced the establishment of the SA20, a Twenty20 Cricket competition to be started in 2023. The teams for the competition, representing six different cities, including Cape Town, were put up for auction in September 2022. The Cape Town franchise was purchased by Mumbai Indians, led by Reliance Industries.

In 2023, they recruited major overseas stars like Rashid Khan, Jofra Archer, Sam Curran and Liam Livingstone, along with big domestic names like Kagiso Rabada, Dewald Brevis (both pre-auction signings), and Rassie van der Dussen (acquired in the player auction) in their first season and had a promising start. By 6 games, they were with 3 wins and losses each, but went out to lose their next 4 games to finish at the bottom of the table with 7 losses and 3 wins. Van der Dussen finished as their leading run-getter, with 243 runs in 10 innings, while Rabada finished as their highest wicket-taker, with 11 wickets in 8 innings.

In 2024, in their next season, with Rashid and Archer injured, they brought Kieron Pollard from MI Emirates and appointed him as the captain for the season. They retained Jofra Archer, Sam Curran and Liam Livingstone. They also bought in the services of Sri-Lankan speedster Nuwan Thushara and English keeper-batter Chris Benjamin. Again after a decent start with 2 wins and losses apiece, they went on to lose 5 of their next 6 to again finish their campaign again at the bottom of the table with 7 losses and 3 wins, identical to their first season. Ryan Rickelton had a breakthrough season, finishing with 530 runs in 10 innings, while Rabada was once again their top wicket-taker with 9 in 10 innings.

In 2025, they overhauled their overseas recruitments by releasing everyone from the previous two seasons' contingent, except for Rashid, Thushara (injured and replaced by Matthew Potts), and Benjamin, while bringing Ben Stokes (injured and replaced by Sediqullah Atal), Trent Boult (from MI Emirates), and Azmatullah Omarzai on board. Rashid was again appointed as their captain. At the player auctions, they acquired the services of Reeza Hendricks, Colin Ingram, and Dane Piedt. They also brought Corbin Bosch as their wildcard pick. Again, they started strongly, defeating Sunrisers Eastern Cape for the first time. They then lost to Joburg Super Kings by 6 runs due to DLS, before winning and losing to Paarl Royals. But this time, they went on to win 5 out of their next 6 games with a bonus point, (with a washout against Durban's Super Giants) to finish at the top of the table and qualify for play-offs. They went on to win the tournament for the first time in their history.

## Current Squad

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No.  | Name  | Nationality  | Batting style  | Bowling style  | Note

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Batters
14 | Connor Esterhuizen |  South Africa | Right-handed | Right-arm off break |
17 | Dewald Brevis |  South Africa | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break |
26 | Sediqullah Atal |  Afghanistan | Left-handed | - | Overseas Player
41 | Colin Ingram |  South Africa | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break |
72 | Rassie van der Dussen |  South Africa | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break |
77 | Reeza Hendricks |  South Africa | Right-handed | Right-arm off break |
Wicket-keepers
44 | Ryan Rickelton |  South Africa | Left-handed | - |
12 | Chris Benjamin |  England | Right-handed | - | Overseas Player
All-rounders
9 | Azmatullah Omarzai |  Afghanistan | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Overseas Player
10 | Corbin Bosch |  South Africa | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Wildcard Signing
19 | Rashid Khan |  Afghanistan | Right-handed | Right-arm Leg break | Captain, Overseas Player
27 | George Linde |  South Africa | Left-handed | Left-arm orthodox |
55 | Ben Stokes |  England | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Overseas Player, Withdrawn
59 | Thomas Kaber |  South Africa | Right-handed | Right-arm medium |
67 | Delano Potgieter |  South Africa | Left-handed | Right-arm medium |
Pace bowlers
8 | Tristan Luus |  South Africa | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast |
18 | Trent Boult |  New Zealand | Right-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | Overseas Player
25 | Kagiso Rabada |  South Africa | Left-handed | Right-arm  fast |
35 | Matthew Potts |  England | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Overseas Player
53 | Nuwan Thushara |  Sri Lanka | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Overseas Player, Withdrawn
Spin bowlers
63 | Dane Piedt |  South Africa | Right-handed | Right-arm off break |
Source: [1]

## Support Staff

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Name  | Role

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Robin Peterson | Head Coach
Ashwell Prince | Batting Coach
Mitchell McClenaghan | Bowling Coach
Kruger van Wyk | Fielding Coach

## Statistics

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### Most runs

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Player  | Runs  | Batting average  | High score  | 100s  | 50s

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Ryan Rickelton | 1012 | 44.00 | 98 | 0 | 8
Rassie van der Dussen | 964 | 37.07 | 104 | 1 | 3
Dewald Brevis | 676 | 29.39 | 73* | 0 | 4
George Linde | 339 | 24.21 | 63* | 0 | 1
Delano Potgieter | 259 | 37.00 | 44* | 0 | 0

### Most wickets

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Player  | Wickets  | Bowling average  | Best bowling

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Kagiso Rabada | 32 | 22.06 | 4/25
George Linde | 24 | 25.87 | 3/15
Rashid Khan | 21 | 25.19 | 3/16
Sam Curran | 14 | 38.07 | 3/26
Corbin Bosch | 11 | 17.36 | 4/19
Olly Stone | 11 | 22.63 | 4/28
Trent Boult | 11 | 24.00 | 2/9

## Seasons

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### Seasons

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Year  | League standing  | Final standing

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2023 | 6th out of 6  | League stage
2024 | 6th out of 6  | League stage
2025 | 1st out of 6  | Champions

* C: champions
* RU: runner-up
* SF team qualified for the semi-final stage of the competition

### Season summary

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Year  | Played  | Wins  | Losses  | Tied/NR

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2023 | 10  | 3  | 7  | 0
2024 | 10  | 3  | 7  | 0
2025 | 12  | 9  | 2  | 1
Source: ESPNCricinfo[6]

Note:

* NR indicates No result
* Abandoned matches are indicated as no result

## References

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1. ^ "MI Cape Town appoint Robin Peterson as head coach and Lasith Malinga as bowling coach". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
2. ^ "Cricket South Africa announces new six-team franchise-based T20 competition". ESPNcricinfo.
3. ^ "Cricket South Africa | T20 COMES HOME AS CSA AND SUPERSPORT ANNOUNCE GRAND NEW EVENT". Archived from the original on 1 December 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
4. ^ "Inaugural SA20 league to begin on January 10". ESPNcricinfo.
5. ^ "IPL franchise owners buy all six teams in South Africa's new T20 league". ESPNcricinfo.
6. ^ "SA20 Records - MI Cape Town". ESPNCricinfo.

## External links

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* Official MI Cape Town website
* MI Cape Town on official SA20 website

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