South Africa's own cricket league, SA20, is underway. If you have seen its points table, you must have noticed something different: the number of matches won by any team does not translate into an equal number of points equivalent. This article discusses the point-rewarding system in the SA20 league.

 

SA20 Points Reward System

In the league, in any match, the winning team receives 4 points for winning the game by default, but the no. of points can be increased to 5 if the difference in net run rate between the winning team and the losing team is greater than 1.25 and the losing team does not get any points. While in the case of a match with no result both the teams get 2-2 points each.

 

On the other side, in tournaments like IPL, there is a simple point reward system where the winning team is awarded 2 points while the losing team doesn't get any, in the case of a match without any result, 1-1 point is awarded to both the teams.

As of now, Paarl Royal is leading the SA20 league in the Points Table with 20 points after winning five out of seven matches, while the two-time champion Sunrisers Eastern Cape is second, with 19 points after winning four matches.

 

SA20 Points Table

Position	Team	Matches	Won	Lost	No Result	Points	NRR
1	Paarl Royals	6	5	1	0	20	+0.248
2	Sunrisers Eastern Cape	7	4	3	0	19	+0.158
3	MI Cape Town	6	3	2	1	16	+1.672
4	Joburg Super Kings	6	2	3	1	10	-0.281
5	Pretoria Capitals	6	1	3	2	9	-0.283
6	Durban Super Giants	7	1	4	2	8	-1.521

 

 

Top Run scorer 

Position	Player	Matches	Runs	Average	Strike Rate	4s	6s
1	Lhuan-dre Pretorius	6	258	43.00	180.42	31	11
2	Rassie van der Dussen	6	228	57.00	128.09	16	10
3	Joe Root	6	201	50.25	141.55	21	4
4	Aiden Markram	6	200	50.00	137.93	16	7
5	David Miller	6	154	77.00	130.51	13	3

 

Top Wicket Taker 

Position	Player	Team	Matches	Wickets	Economy	Best Bowling
1	Marco Jansen	SEC	6	10	6.35	2/23
2	Mujeeb Ur Rahman	PR	6	10	7.21	2/27
3	Noor Ahmad	DSG	7	9	6.82	4/25
4	Richard Gleeson	SEC	6	9	7.16	2/22
5	Liam Dawson	SEC	5	8	5.61	2/11

 

Highest Score in SA20 This Season 

Position	Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate	4s	6s
1	Lhuan-dre Pretorius	97	51	190.20	10	6
2	Joe Root	92	60	153.33	11	2
3	Rassie van der Dussen	91	64	142.19	5	5
4	Ryan Rickelton	89	39	228.21	8	6
5	Rahmanullah Gurbaz	89	43	206.98	3	7

 

​​​​​​Best Bowling Figure

Position	Player	Team	Figures	Overs	Runs
1	Delano Potgieter	MICT	5/10	3.0	10
2	George Linde	MICT	3/15	4.0	15
3	Senuran Muthusamy	PC	3/21	4.0	21
4	Dayyaan Galiem	PR	3/24	4.0	24
5	Daryn Dupavillon	PC	3/32	4.0	32