The Standard Bank P20 championships in South Africa is the equivalent of the India's DLF IPL and the Cape Cobras are the current champions of their home tournament, thereby qualifying them as one of the 2 teams from South Africa to participate in the Champions League. The team is captained by batsman Andrew Puttick and counts Herschelle Gibbs and Jean-Paul Duminy amongst its ranks. JP Duminy is a known name in India, having represented South Africa in recent times, but is more well-known for having an outstanding IPL-2 with Mumbai Indians, their new recruit after season 1. As Mumbai Indians have not qualified for the Champions League, Duminy does not face the problem that Gibbs had. In the IPL, Gibbs plays for the Deccan Chargers Hyderabad, who qualified for this year's Champions League after winning IPL-2. Other players of Cape Cobras to have represented South africa in international cricket at one point of time or the other are bowlers Monde Zondeki (Once nick -named the black Allan Donald), Charl Langeveldt, allrounder Vernon Philander and batsman Justin Ontong. H Davids has scored the only sentury in T20 matches for the Cape Cobras.
Overall T20 Record
Matches played - 40
Matches won - 22
Matches lost - 15
Matches Ties - 2
No result - 1
Players to watch out for:
Batsmen - JP Duminy - top run getter for the team with 752 T20 runs in 31 matches with an average of 31.33 and strike rate of 114.11. The pinch hitter of the team is RK Kleinveldt with a strike rate of 160.28, mainly due to being the leading sixer hitter in this side with 24 sixers in 37 matches.
Bowlers - Charl Langeveldt by a mile. He has the most wickets (34 from 15 matches), best economy rate (5.94 runs per over), best bowling figures of 5/16, best average of 9.79 runs per wicket, best strike rate of 9.8 balls per wicket.
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