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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Captain | Faf du Plessis | |
| Coach | Adrian Birrell | |
| Team information | ||
| City | Paarl,Western Cape, South Africa | |
| Founded | 2018 | |
| Home ground | Boland Park,Paarl | |
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Paarl Rocks are a franchise team of the South AfricanMzansi Super LeagueTwenty20 cricket tournament founded in 2018. The team was based atBoland Park inPaarl. The coach wasAdrian Birrell.[1]
Paarl Rocks played in the first two editions of the MLS in2018 and2019, before COVID-19 delayed the competition in 2020. The team 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 All six of the original city-based franchise teams in the Mzansi Super League were to have been replaced by eight new teams based around the new South African domestic structure,[3] but the league itself was later cancelled and replaced by a new franchise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, theSA20, beginning in the 2022/23 season.[citation needed]
