Nelson Mandela Bay Giants were a franchise team of the South African Mzansi Super League Twenty20 cricket tournament. The team were based at the St George's Park Cricket Ground in Port Elizabeth.
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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 | |
| Dissolved | 2021 | |
| Home ground | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth | |
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Nelson Mandela Bay Giants played in the first two editions of the MLS in 2018 and 2019, before COVID-19 delayed the competition in 2020. The side was dissolved in 2021 in response to the reform of the domestic structure of South African cricket. All six of the original city-based franchise teams in the Mzansi Super League were to have been replaced by eight new teams based around the new South African domestic structure,[1] but the league itself was later cancelled and replaced by a new franchise competition, the SA20, beginning in the 2022/23 season.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "Mzansi Super League set for expansion with two new teams". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 December 2021.