List of Cape Cobras cricketers

This is a list of cricketers who played for the South African franchise team Cape Cobras between the 2003–04 season and 2020–21. It includes the players who appeared for the team in first-class, List A and Twenty20 competitions during the period in which the team was a franchise.

During 2003, Cricket South Africa changed the way in which top-class domestic cricket in the country was organised. This created six franchise teams at the top level of domestic competition, combining the existing provincial sides to create an elite competition. Cape Cobras were formed by combining the two existing teams in the Western Cape province, Western Province and Boland. Initially the side competed in the 2003–04 CSA T20 Challenge, before the CSA 4-Day Domestic Series and CSA One-Day Cup also became franchise-only competitions the following season. For two seasons the team competed under the name Western Province Boland before adopting the name Cape Cobras from the start of the 2005–06 season.[1][2][3] South Western Districts became part of the Cape Cobras franchise in March 2015, having previously been part of the Warriors franchise.[a][3][4]

During the period of franchise competitions, Western Province, Boland, and South Western Districts continued to compete as separate cricket unions in the CSA 3-Day and One-Day Cups and CSA T20 competitions. The period of franchise competition lasted until the end of the 2020–21 season when Cricket South Africa reverted to a division based provincial competition, with all three teams competing separately from the start of the 2021–22 season.[5][6] Many of the senior provincial unions which had been involved in franchise competitions retained the names of their franchises as marketing tools. Western Province, the senior team in the Cape Cobras franchise, chose not to do so.[3][7]

This list includes only the players who played for Cape Cobras between 2003–04 and 2020–21, the period in which franchise cricket operated in South Africa. It includes players who appeared for teams named Western Province Boland in 2003–04 and 2004–05, but not those who played only for Western Province, Boland, or from 2015–16, South Western Districts in provincial competitions during the period, or those who played for Western Province only after the end of franchise competitions in 2020–21.[8][9]

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  1. ^ South Western Districts, also geographically part of the Western Cape, had initially been part of the structure which fed in to the Warriors in the Eastern Cape. The team began playing at provincial level in 2006–07, and in 2015 the South Western Districts Cricket Board joined the Western Cape organisation, moving to join the Cape Cobras franchise.[4]

References

  1. ^ Moonda F (2014) Shrinking South Africa, The Cricket Monthly at CricInfo. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
  2. ^ South Africa complete domestic restructuring, ESPN Philippines, 2 February 2004. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
  3. ^ a b c Moonda F (2021) Five talking points about South Africa's new domestic structure, CricInfo, 23 September 2021. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
  4. ^ a b Historical overview, South Western Districts Cricket. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
  5. ^ Moonda F (2021) Revamped two-tier South African domestic structure ready to take off, CricInfo, 8 March 2021. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
  6. ^ Ray C (2021) New provincial cricket decision means fewer teams, but a boost for cricketers, Daily Maverick, 14 March 2021. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
  7. ^ Cape Cobras name dissolved in favour of Western Province, News24, 3 August 2021. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
  8. ^ Western Province Boland, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2025-06-29. (subscription required)
  9. ^ Cape Cobras, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2025-06-29. (subscription required)
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