It was a very poor previous edition for the Pretoria Capitals in the SA20 as they ended at the penultimate position among six franchises in the points table during the previous season of the tournament. Pretoria faced just one victory in the last six encounters of the event, which came against the Johannesburg Super Kings by six wickets.

Pretoria came into the auction of SA20 for the 2025/26 season of the competition with the biggest purse of R32.5 million as they had 16 slots to fill, including four overseas slots and a couple of under-23 slots. As soon as Dewald Brevis came into the bid, they raised their paddle and nearly kept it high in the air till bagging the batter’s rights for R16.50 million.

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Pretoria also went after the left-arm Protea pacer, Nandre Burger, but they had to back out when the Johannesburg Super Kings matched their R6.3 million price, using the RTM card. They are also scoping Keshav Maharaj, the veteran off-spinner of the side, along with Lungi Ngidi, who plays his domestic cricket in Centurion at the SuperSport Park.

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Pretoria now has a strong-looking bowling attack of Codi Yousuf, Craig Overton, Lizaad Williams, and Saqib Mahmood. They had already made the wild-card entry of the experienced wild-card signing of West Indies’ Andre Russell, who will bring incredible balance in the squad along with Will Jacks and Sherfane Rutherford.

Late in the evening, Pretoria also had Will Smeed, which makes it a powerful batting line-up. The only issue for them could prove to be bowling on a small Centurion ground, where the ball tends to fly a lot in the shortest format. Saqib Mahmood and Craig Overton will also bring international experience into the line-up.

Pretoria Capitals

Wild Card: Andre Russell

Pre-signing: Sherfane Rutherford and Will Jacks.

Auction: Keshav Maharaj (R1.7 million), Lungi Ngidi (R2.3 million), Dewald Brevis (R16.5 million), Lizaad Williams (R2.4 million), Craig Overton (R1 million), Saqib Mahmood (R1.5 million), Codi Yusuf (R225,000), Connor Esterhuizen (R3.2 million), Bryce Parsons (R1.9 million), Gideon Peters (R400,000), Junaid Dawood (R200,000), Will Smeed (R200,000), Meeka-eel Prince (R200,000), Bayanda Majola (R200,000), Wihan Lubbe (R200,000), Sibonelo Makhanya (R200,000)