SA20 All Six Teams Retention List: The new season of South Africa’s T20 League SA20 will start at the end of the year from December 26. At the same time, the first auction is to be held on September 9. Before the auction, on Wednesday, all six teams revealed their retention list, in which the option of selecting only six players through retain, pre-sign and wild card was given. For this reason, all the teams have selected the players of their choice for the next season and will make the rest a part of their squad through auction.
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Aiden Markram left Sunrisers
Retention list: South Africa’s dashing batsman Aiden Markram took a big decision and he will be seen in the auction. Markram refused to be retained with Sunrisers Eastern Cape. Under his captaincy, the team played three consecutive finals and also became champion twice. While they were runners-up last season. However, if Sunrisers want to buy Markram back, they will have the option to use the right-to-match card.
Retention list: These changes were made in the SA20 auction
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Earlier this year, in a major change to the auction process, SA20 decided not to allow more than six retention or pre-signed players, the lowest in the tournament’s short history. For the first time, a wildcard option has been added that allows franchises to choose a player at a price outside the purse, this player can be domestic or international. This will be the biggest auction since the tournament began in 2022, with 72 out of a total of 102 places available for the six franchises. The purse value limit has been increased from around US$2.2 million to around US$2.31 million.
List of all players retained by teams for SA20 2026
MI Cape Town
Retained: Trent Boult, Rashid Khan, Ryan Rickleton, George Linde, Corbin Bosch
Wild Card: Kagiso Rabada
Pre-Signed: Nicholas Pooran
Sunrisers Eastern Cape
Pre-Signed: Jonny Bairstow, AM Ghazanfar, Adam Milne
Retained: Tristan Stubbs
Wild Card: Marco Jansen
Johannesburg Super Kings
Retained: Faf du Plessis,
Wild Card: Donovan Ferreira
Pre-Signed: James Vince, Akeal Hosein, Richard Gleeson
Pretoria Capitals
Pre-Signed: Will Jacks, Sherfane Rutherford
Wild Card: Andre Russell
Paarl Royals
Retained: Luan-Dre Pretorius, David Miller, Bjorn Fortuin
Pre-signed: Sikandar Raza, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman
Wild card: Rubin Harman
Durban Super Giants
Pre-signed: Sunil Narine, Jos Buttler
Retained: Noor Ahmed
Wild card: Heinrich Klaasen
