Millions on the line at the SA20 season 4 player auction

Johannesburg [South Africa], August 28 (ANI): With a mega 7.37 cardinal USD connected the array to capable 84 disposable slots, this is the hottest question heading into the SA20 Season 4 Player Auction, taking spot successful Johannesburg connected September 9.

All six franchises person completed their pre-signings, retained players and wildcard acquisitions, and tin present absorption each their energies connected gathering their 19-player squads with the remainder of their allocated funds (2.31 cardinal USD), the second-highest wage headdress aft the IPL, each.

Pretoria Capitals person the largest purse of (1.86 cardinal USD) and are acceptable to physique a caller and breathtaking squad aft revitalising their coaching unit with legendary erstwhile India skipper Sourav Ganguly taking implicit the relation of caput coach.

He volition beryllium relying connected the section cognition of erstwhile Proteas skipper and SA20 commentator Shaun Pollock, who volition beryllium fulfilling the relation of Capitals adjunct manager for Season 4.

Durban Super Giants (DSG) person the next-biggest purse of 1.66 cardinal USD. The Kingsmead-based franchise has a settled coaching staff, having retained Lance Klusener and Allan Donald for the upcoming season.

Klusener volition look to signifier a squad that already boasts the formidable talents of erstwhile England T20 World Cup-winning skipper Jos Buttler, West Indies T20 World Cup victor Sunil Narine, erstwhile Proteas maestro blaster Heinrich Klaasen and Afghanistan rotation sensation Noor Ahmad.

Joburg Super Kings volition beryllium anxious to marque a large play astatine the auction with 1.2 cardinal USD successful their purse.

Captain Faf du Plessis volition erstwhile again play a salient relation aft being pre-signed alongside Englishmen James Vince and Richard Gleeson, West Indian Akeal Hosein and Proteas middle-order batter Donovan Ferreira.

Two-time champions Sunrisers Eastern Cape person been savvy operators astatine erstwhile auctions and inactive boast the grounds auction acquisition of Tristan Stubbs for 0.522 cardinal USD.

Stubbs has been pre-signed for Season 4 alongside SA20 Season MVP Marco Jansen. There volition besides beryllium caller acquisitions, including Afghanistan teen enigma spinner Allah Ghazanfar, New Zealand accelerated bowler Adam Milne, and experienced England planetary Jonny Bairstow.

This has near Sunrisers Eastern Cape with a purse of 1.2 cardinal USD to physique a squad susceptible of reclaiming the rubric aft finishing arsenic runners-up to MI Cape Town past season.

The Paarl Royals person 0.819 cardinal USD to walk arsenic they question to unafraid a first-ever finals quality aft 3 consecutive Playoff finishes.

The Royals person remained steadfast successful their younker policy, retaining Season 3 apical run-scorer Lhuan-dre Pretorius alongside stalwarts David Miller, Bjorn Fortuin, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Sikandar Raza, and Rubin Hermann.

Champions MI Cape Town has 0.65 cardinal USD aft reinvesting heavy into the halfway of the Season three-winning squad.

Captain Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, George Linde, Corbin Bosch and Trent Boult person each been pre-signed with West Indies dynamo Nicholas Pooran, adding a caller dynamism to the Newlands-based outfit.

Each of the six franchises volition besides beryllium required to prime a minimum of 2 Under-23 players successful their 19-player squads, a caller subordinate regularisation replacing the Rookie Draft selections from the erstwhile 2 auctions.

Defending champions MI Cape Town get their rubric defence underway with a blockbuster clash against Durban's Super Giants connected Friday, December 26, 2025, astatine the picturesque Newlands successful the tourney opener. (ANI)