Are any Indians playing SA20? Latest updates on South Africa T20 league – sportingnews.com

Ritabrata_Banerjee
A brand new season of the SA20 is upon us as the South Africa’s premier franchise T20 competition kicks off on Boxing Day.
The curtain raiser of the SA20 2026 season will feature a mouth-watering clash between reigning champions MI Cape Town and Durban’s Super Giants.
Sunrisers Eastern Cape Town are the most successful team in the history of the competition, having won the title in the first two seasons.
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As an exciting new season is about to kick off during the festive period, we take a look at whether any Indian players are taking part in the tournament this year.
Not a single Indian player will compete in the fourth edition of the SA20, which kicks off in December 2026, 2025.
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BCCI have a strict rule regarding non-participation of active Indian cricketers, who are registered with the board, in overseas franchise leagues. If an Indian player has to participate, he has to announce his retirement from international and domestic cricket and also obtain a no-objection certificate from the board.
Some former India and IPL stars, like Piyush Chawla, Sidharth Kaul and Ankit Rajpoot, registered themselves for the SA20 2026 auction, but they went unsold.
R Ashwin, who announced his retirement from domestic cricket, including IPL, earlier this year, was supposed to enter the auction, but he retracted his name before the event.
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Yes, former India wicket-keeper batter Dinesh Karthik played for Paarl Royals in SA20 2025.
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