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The 2017–18 Sunfoil Series was a first-class cricket competition that took place in South Africa from 19 September 2017 to 25 March 2018. Knights were the defending champions.

There was a planned break in the competition between October and February for the first season of the T20 Global League (TGL). However, the TGL was postponed to November 2018, with South Africa's domestic T20 competition moved back from March 2018 to November 2017 to replace it.

After the first four rounds of fixtures, all twelve matches had ended in draws. The first win of the tournament came in the fifth round, when Titans beat Lions by nine wickets. By the end of the mid-season break in October 2017, fourteen of the fifteen matches had ended as a draw. Ahead of the final round of fixtures, five of the six teams were still in contention of winning the title.

Titans won the series, after they beat Knights by four wickets in the final round of matches.

Points table

Fixtures

Round 1

• Cape Cobras won the toss and elected to bat.
• In the Knights first innings, Keegan Petersen, Theunis de Bruyn, Rudi Second and Werner Coetsee all scored centuries. This was the first time in franchise cricket in South Africa that four players from one team had made a century in the same innings.
• Aviwe Mgijima (Cape Cobras) scored his maiden first-class century.

• Warriors won the toss and elected to bat.
• Omphile Ramela (Lions) played in his 100th first-class match.

• Titans won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 2

• Warriors won the toss and elected to bat.

• Knights won the toss and elected to field.
• No play was possible on day 1 due to rain.

• Titans won the toss and elected to bat.
• Corbin Bosch (Titans) made his first-class debut.

Round 3

• Knights won the toss and elected to bat.

• Lions won the toss and elected to bat.

• Titans won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 4

• Cape Cobras won the toss and elected to field.
• Pieter Malan (Cape Cobras) scored his 25th century in first-class cricket.

• Titans won the toss and elected to bat.

• Lions won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 5

• Cape Cobras won the toss and elected to field.

• Warriors won the toss and elected to bat.
• No play was possible on day 2.

• Lions won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 6

• Warriors won the toss and elected to bat.

• Knights won the toss and elected to bat.

• Cape Cobras won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 7

• Cape Cobras won the toss and elected to bat.

• Dolphins won the toss and elected to bat.

• Knights won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 8

• Titans won the toss and elected to field.

• Dolphins won the toss and elected to bat.

• Knights won the toss and elected to field.

Round 9

• Titans won the toss and elected to bat.

• Warriors won the toss and elected to field.

• Lions won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 10

• Dolphins won the toss and elected to field.
• No play was possible on days 1 and 2 due to rain.

• Lions won the toss and elected to field.
• No play was possible on day 1 due to rain.

• Titans won the toss and elected to field.
• No play was possible on days 1 and 2 due to rain.

References

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11. "Titans crowned Sunfoil Series champs". SuperSport. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
12. "CSA congratulates Multiply Titans on winning Sunfoil Series title". Cricket South Africa. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
13. "2017–18 Sunfoil Series Points table". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
14. "Record-setting Knights in control against Cobras". Cricket South Africa. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
15. "Amla, Mgijima help Cobras earn draw with Knights". Cricket South Africa. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
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17. "Big Malan century gives Cobras victory chance". Cricket South Africa. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2017.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

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