YesPlay Newlands in Cape Town will take centre stage on Saturday when the domestic T20 cricket festival comes to town, with both the semifinals and the final of the YesPlay Pro20 Cup set to take place at the iconic venue in the shadow of Table Mountain, pulling down the curtain on the exciting inaugural edition of the competition.
The first of the two semifinals takes place at 09:30am between Dafabet Warriors and Dafabet Boland, two sides who are quite familiar with each other, to say the least.
They faced each other in the final of the T20 Challenge last year, with Warriors lifting the trophy after a Super Over, and came face to face with each other for the first time in this version of the tournament last week.
Incredibly, they again needed a Super Over to separate them, this time Boland righting the wrongs of 2025 to overcome their rivals in the Super 8s.
Form then deserted them at the most crucial stage of the competition as they went on to lose their next two games, and faced a nervy end to make the last four in the final qualifying spot.
Warriors had the exact opposite fortunes as the Super 8s drew to a close, digging deep to find the two wins at the end that not only confirmed their passage to the semifinals but also catapulted them to the top of the table ahead of DP World Lions.
INSPIRING RUN
Boland had an inspiring run in the round robin of the competition, winning six of the seven matches they played, with the only blemish coming against YesPlay Cobras.
That saw them finish on 26 points and in second place behind Momentum Multiply Titans in pool A.
They then carried over eight points into the Super Over, having beaten Titans and World Sports Betting Eastern Storm already in the pool.
Wins over Hollywoodbets Dolphins and Warriors and added eight more, as they ended on 16 heading into the knockout match
In pool B, Warriors recovered from a first match defeat against North West Dragons to win four of their seven matches, ending in third spot on the table with Lions and Dolphins occupying the top two places.
In the Super 8s, they already had 12 points after two bonus-point wins over Dolphins and Garden Route Badgers in their pool, while two more points were added from their abandoned match against Lions.
While they fell short against Boland, they were too strong for Cobras, Easterns, and Titans to double their points tally and finish at the summit.
The winner between Warriors and Boland at Newlands will wait for the result between DP World Lions and Cobras in the afternoon to find out who will contest the final of the 2026 YesPlay Pro20 Cup.