| 2017–18 Sunfoil Series | |
| Administrator: | Cricket South Africa |
| Cricket Format: | First-class |
| Tournament Format: | Double round-robin |
| Champions: | Titans |
| Count: | 6 |
| Participants: | 6 |
| Matches: | 30 |
| Most Runs: | Rassie van der Dussen (959) |
| Most Wickets: | Simon Harmer (47) |
| Previous Year: | 2016–17 |
| Previous Tournament: | 2016–17 Sunfoil Series |
| Next Year: | 2018–19 |
| Next Tournament: | 2018–19 CSA 4-Day Franchise Series |
The 2017–18 Sunfoil Series was a first-class cricket competition that took place in South Africa from 19 September 2017 to 25 March 2018.[1] Knights were the defending champions.[2]
There was a planned break in the competition between October and February for the first season of the T20 Global League (TGL).[3] [4] However, the TGL was postponed to November 2018,[5] with South Africa's domestic T20 competition moved back from March 2018 to November 2017 to replace it.[6]
After the first four rounds of fixtures, all twelve matches had ended in draws.[7] The first win of the tournament came in the fifth round, when Titans beat Lions by nine wickets.[8] By the end of the mid-season break in October 2017, fourteen of the fifteen matches had ended as a draw.[9] Ahead of the final round of fixtures, five of the six teams were still in contention of winning the title.[10]
Titans won the series, after they beat Knights by four wickets in the final round of matches.[11] [12]
| Teams[13] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Titans | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 143.96 | +0.407 | |
| Warriors | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 142.44 | +0.037 | |
| Cape Cobras | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 133.36 | –0.119 | |
| Knights | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 126.68 | +0.087 | |
| Dolphins | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 126.66 | +0.086 | |
| Lions | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 120.46 | –0.495 |
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