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Varsity Cricket is here!

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Channel: Cricket South Africa · 2016 · Sports

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The second edition of South Africa’s university T20 cricket tournament, Varsity Cricket, kicks off on Monday 25 January, 2016. Potchefstroom will once again play host to the thrilling six-day tournament, where South Africa’s top universities will compete for the ultimate title in university cricket.  The winners will represent South Africa at the 2016 Red Bull Campus Cricket World Finals. Winners of the inaugural competition, University of Pretoria (UP-Tuks), successfully defended their Red Bull Campus title in India last year and will look to make it three in a row in 2016.The eight teams battling it out for top honours in Potchefstroom next week will be current champions UP-Tuks and challengers NWU-Pukke, Maties, UCT, UJ, Kovsies, NMMU and UWC.There will be 31 hard-hitting, high tempo T20 matches hosted by three venues: the Puk Oval, the Ibbies Oval and Senwes Park. These matches will be played in a round robin format and the teams finishing in the top four will contest the semi-finals, with the final taking place on Saturday 30 January. In addition to the final, the curtain-raiser will be a T20 match between local Potchefstroom schools, Volkies and Gimmies.The popular pink cricket balls as well as many of the innovative rules that spectators and players have enjoyed will return in 2016. In a slight rule change to the Power Play Plus Over, whereby the batting team can select to have all runs and extras scored in an over doubled, the fielding team will now be allowed to select which bowler will take on the batsmen. In 2015, the fielding team could not change the bowler once the batting side had signalled that they would initiate their Power Play Plus Over. Should a batsmen lose their wicket during the Power Play Plus Over, five runs will be deducted from the batting side’s score.

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