The Sunrisers Eastern Cape and MI Cape Town get the Betway SA20 underway at St Georges Park, Gqeberha on Thursday and we take a look at the squads and the all important betting to win the match and the whole tournament.
The format sees each team play each other home and away and the top 4 finishers will go through to the play offs which consist of 2 qualifiers either side of an eliminator and the final is scheduled to take place on 8th February.
Lets first take in an outright tournament winner betting update from the sponsors Betway.
MI Cape Town 7/2
Pretoria Capitals 7/2
Joburg Super Kings 4/1
Sunrisers Eastern Cape 9/2
Durban Super Giants 5/1
Paarl Rocks 7/1
Prices subject to change
Sunrisers Eastern Cape
The Sunrisers Easter Cape won each of the first 2 editions of the SA20, last season they thrashed the Durban Super Giants by 89 runs. Devid Bedingham (Wildcard), Okuhle Cele, Zak Crawley, Craig Overton and Daniel Smith have been recruited to the squad which is once again skippered by Aiden Markram. Tristan Stubbs and Marco Jansen are local big names.
MI Cape Town
In contrast to the Sunrisers, MI Cape Town failed to make the play offs in the first 2 editions of the SA20. Tent Boult, Tristan Luus, Azmatullah Omarzai and Dane Piedt are the new faces in the squad which is captained Rashid Khan, also includes Ryan Rickleton, Kagiso Rabada and Corbin Bosch along with Reeza Hendriks and Dewald Brevis but Ben Stokes misses the tournament through injury.
The Betting
Sunrisers Eastern Cape even money
MI Cape Town 8/10
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The Verdict
As the outright betting suggests this tournament is wide open, the Sunrisers have the winning pedigree but this MI squad also looks more than useful and at the time of writing MI's price had shortened into 8/10.
I'm a fan of Richard Gleeson who I will side with to be top Sunrisers bowler regardless of the outcome of the match
Bet: Top Sunrisers Bowler Richard Gleeson at 3.25/1 with Betway
Note: All prices correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
