Titans (cricket team)

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Titans
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Personnel
Captain Grant Thomson
Coach Mandla Mashimbyi
Team information
Colors  Light Blue   Royal Blue
Founded2004;20 years ago (2004)
Home ground SuperSport Park
Capacity18,000
Official website www.titans.co.za
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T20

The Titans (known as the Multiply Titans for sponsorship reasons) are the northernmost top-level cricket franchise in South Africa. Its member unions are the Eastern Cricket Union and Northerns Cricket Union. The home venues of the Titans are SuperSport Park, Centurion and Willowmoore Park, Benoni.

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The Titans play in the Sunfoil Series first class competition (where they were the 2015-16 champions [1] ), the Momentum One Day Cup, and Ram Slam T20 Challenge. They have been Supersport Series and MiWay T20 Challenge champions in the past, and had qualified to take part in the Champions League Twenty20 where they narrowly lost to the Sydney Sixers at SuperSport Park.

The Titans were also Momentum One Day Cup champions in the 2014/15 season, beating the Cape Cobras in the final.

In July 2018, they were one of the six teams invited to play in the first edition of the Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy, scheduled to start in October 2018. [2]

Since the franchise system was introduced in South African domestic cricket in 2004/05,and again reverting back to a provincial system in 2021, the Titans have been the most successful winning 20 trophies.

Champions League T20

Titans played very well in their first CLT20 and qualified for the semi-finals, where the Sydney Sixers nailed a win off the last ball in front of a massive crowd at SuperSport Park, Centurion. In the 2013 edition, they played well in the group stage, winning 2 matches and facing defeat in 2, but failed to qualify at the expense of T&T and the Chennai Super Kings.

Honours

Team management

Mandla Mashimbyi (Head Coach), Geoffrey Toyana (Assist. Coach), Sizwe Hadebe (Physiotherapist), Laden Gamiet (S&C Coach), Matthew Reuben (Analyst), Richard Das Neves (HP Coach).

Players

Current squad

NameNatBirth dateBatting styleBowling styleNotes
Opening Batsmen
Andrea Agathangelou Flag of South Africa.svg 16 November 1989 (age 34)Right-handedRight arm leg break
Tony de Zorzi Flag of South Africa.svg 28 August 1997 (age 26)Left-handedRight arm off break
Rilee Rossouw Flag of South Africa.svg 30 June 1989 (age 34)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox CSA contracted
Gionne Koopman Flag of South Africa.svg 28 December 1991 (age 32)Left-handedRight arm legbreak
Victor Mahlangu Flag of South Africa.svg 5 October 1990 (age 33)Right-handedRight arm medium
Aiden Markram Flag of South Africa.svg 4 October 1994 (age 29)Right-handedRight arm off break CSA contracted
Wesley Marshall Flag of South Africa.svg 4 January 1994 (age 30)Right-handedRight arm medium
Batsmen
Farhaan Behardien Flag of South Africa.svg 9 October 1983 (age 40)Right-handedRight arm medium
Henry Davids Flag of South Africa.svg 19 January 1980 (age 44)Right-handedRight arm medium-fast
Theunis de Bruyn Flag of South Africa.svg 8 October 1992 (age 31)Right-handedRight arm medium-fastCSA contracted
David Wiese Flag of South Africa.svg 18 May 1985 (age 38)Right-handedRight arm leg break CSA contracted
Diego Rosier Flag of South Africa.svg 2 May 1994 (age 29)Right-handedRight arm leg break
Kabelo Sekhukhune Flag of South Africa.svg 16 July 1997 (age 26)Left-handedRight arm leg break
Jonathan Vandiar Flag of South Africa.svg 25 April 1990 (age 33)Left-handedRight arm leg break
Wicket-keepers
Quinton de Kock Flag of South Africa.svg 17 December 1992 (age 31)Left-handedCSA contracted
Rubin Hermann Flag of South Africa.svg 26 January 1997 (age 27)Left-handed
Heinrich Klaasen Flag of South Africa.svg 30 July 1991 (age 32)Right-handedOpener
Sizwe Masondo Flag of South Africa.svg 13 February 1987 (age 37)Right-handed
Rivaldo Moonsamy Flag of South Africa.svg 13 September 1996 (age 27)Right-handed
All-rounders
Matthew Arnold Flag of South Africa.svg 16 October 1988 (age 35)Left-handedRight arm fast-medium
Neil Brand Flag of South Africa.svg 12 April 1996 (age 27)Left-handedLeft-arm orthodox
Dayyaan Galiem Flag of South Africa.svg 2 January 1997 (age 27)Right-handedRight arm medium-fast
Chris Morris Flag of South Africa.svg 30 April 1987 (age 36)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
Grant Thomson Flag of South Africa.svg 18 March 1988 (age 35)Right-handedRight arm medium-fast
Spin Bowlers
Gregory Mahlokwana Flag of South Africa.svg 14 December 1994 (age 29)Left-handedLeft-arm orthodox spin
Tabraiz Shamsi Flag of South Africa.svg 18 February 1990 (age 34)Right-handed Slow left-arm wrist-spin CSA contracted
Simon Harmer Flag of South Africa.svg 31 December 1989 (age 34)Right-handedRight arm off break
Seam Bowlers
Clayton August Flag of South Africa.svg 16 February 1990 (age 34)Left-handedLeft Arm Fast-medium
Corbin Bosch Flag of South Africa.svg 10 September 1994 (age 29)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
Tshepo Moreki Flag of South Africa.svg 7 October 1993 (age 30)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
Itumaleng Moseki Flag of South Africa.svg 21 August 1991 (age 32)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
Alfred Mothoa Flag of South Africa.svg 16 December 1989 (age 34)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
Corbin Bosch Flag of South Africa.svg 25 March 1994 (age 29)Right-handedRight arm fast CSA contracted
Marcello Piedt Flag of South Africa.svg 23 September 1992 (age 31)Right-handedRight arm medium-fast
Dale Steyn Flag of South Africa.svg 20 July 1983 (age 40)Right- handedRight arm Fast CSA contracted; Limited-overs only

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  2. "Abu Dhabi to host teams from six countries in T20 tournament". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 July 2018.