Mzansi Super League 2021 Canceled due to Covid-19 Concerns
The 2021 edition of the Mzansi Super League (MSL), which was scheduled to be played in February 2022, has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns in South Africa. A CSA statement said the discovery of a new Omicron version of COVID-19 has “made it difficult to maintain the brand’s proposition of being a premium international T20 tournament due to increased travel restrictions imposed by several countries on South Africa”.

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CSA Acting CEO Foletsi Mosecki confirmed that the CSA T20 Challenge will be in that slot in February instead of the Mzansi Super League.

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Decision to Cancel 2021 Edition of Mzansi Super League

Mosecki said, “The decision to cancel the 2021 edition of the Mzansi Super League is to allow CSA and its strategic partners to review and review the post-tournament period of COVID-19 in order to regain their market and commercial position. is for.” “For this purpose, the Mzansi Super League slot will again be replaced by the domestic CSA T20 Challenge, which will feature 8 (eight) Division 1 teams and the tournament will take place in February 2022.”

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The T20 league played in 2018 and 2019. But in 2020 it closed due to challenges posed by the pandemic. It converted into a domestic T20 competition — played between eight top-tier teams earlier this season.

Paarl Rocks are the current Mzansi Super League champions.

Paarl Rocks are the current Mzansi Super League champions. While the Lions defeated the Dolphins to become the domestic T20 champions in the 2020–21 domestic competition.

The final round of matches in the four-day franchise series postponed and will be rescheduled in 2022.

So far this season, domestic cricket has not been played in a biosecure bubble environment. But this will change for the One Day and T20 competitions. Last summer, both white-ball tournaments took place in bio-secure conditions.

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South Africa is currently the fourth wave of the pandemic

South Africa is currently in the fourth wave of the pandemic. Which coincided with the discovery of the Omicron version last month. Earlier in the week the cases had exceeded 26,000. But now this number is decreasing. However, the country remains at an alert level of one in five, with restrictions at least tight since the start of the pandemic last year.
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