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Nelson Mandela Bay Giants

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Nelson Mandela Bay Giants
Nelson Mandela Bay Giants logo
Personnel
CaptainJJ Smuts
CoachEric Simons
Team information
CityPort Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Founded2018
Dissolved2021
Home groundSt George's Park, Port Elizabeth

T20I kit

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.

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 All six of the original city-based franchise teams in the Mzansi Super League were to have been replaced by eight new teams based around the new South African domestic structure,[1] but the league itself was later cancelled and replaced by a new franchise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

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  1. ^ "Mzansi Super League set for expansion with two new teams". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
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