The Solidarity Cup match was set to be played on the 27th of June at the SuperSport Park in Centurion. However, CSA didn’t receive any government clearance for the resumption of sporting activities and consequently, the dates for the 3TC tournament had to be pushed back. Nonetheless, the line-ups and playing conditions will remain completely unaltered.
CSA’s acting Chief Executive Jacques Faul seemed happy that the exhibition match was taking place on South Africa’s anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader Nelson Mandela’s birthday.
The bizarre rules of 3TC Cup
The three teams for the match will be consisting of eight players each. The teams will be led by South African superstars Quinton de Kock, Kagiso Rabada, and AB de Villiers.
The three teams will look to outscore each other in a single game while getting to bat a dozen overs each.
The team that scores the most runs wins Gold in the 3TC tournament.. If 2 teams tie with the most runs, a super over decides who will win the Gold; if all 3 teams tie, all get Gold; and, in a tie for second, Silver is shared.
Cricket is already highly inundated with numbers, statistics and rules and therefore it needs to be seen if the audience is able to keep up with the pace of the game.
One glance at these rules and we can surely conclude that 3TC has replaced the ECB’s “The Hundred” as the most complicated format of the game.
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