Paarl Rocks | |
Captain: | Faf du Plessis |
Coach: | Adrian Birrell |
City: | Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa |
Founded: | 2018 |
Dissolved: | 2021 |
Ground: | Boland Park, Paarl |
T Pattern B: | _whirlpattern |
T Leftarm: | A23F97 |
T Body: | A23F97 |
T Rightarm: | A23F97 |
T Pants: | A23F97 |
Paarl Rocks were a franchise team of the South African Mzansi Super League Twenty20 cricket tournament founded in 2018. The team was based at Boland Park in Paarl. The coach was Adrian Birrell.[1]
Paarl Rocks played in the first two editions of the MLS in 2018 and 2019, before COVID-19 delayed the competition in 2020. The side won the competition in 2019[2] but were 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 All six of the original city-based franchise teams in the Mzansi Super League were to have been replaced by eight new teams based around the new South African domestic structure,[3] but the league itself was later cancelled and replaced by a new franchise competition, the SA20, beginning in the 2022/23 season.