YesPlay Cobras will hope home ground advantage can work in their favour when they face DP World Lions, in the second semi-final of the YesPlay Pro20 Cup on Saturday.
The competition draws to a close with both semi-finals and the final taking place at YesPlay Newlands in Cape Town, and Cobras will particularly know the lay of the land better than the rest.
The two sides finished the Super 8s stage in second and third positions, with Lions winning three of the four matches played there and losing only against their last four opponents last weekend.
Cobras on the other hand started slow with a loss in the Super 8s and then had their second match abandoned, meaning they had to rally in the final two games to make sure they finish inside the top four.
Victories over Lions at home and then another one away to Garden Route Badgers were enough to see them home and dry.
They’ll be hoping for support from the Cape Town crowd from 14h00 when they begin their attempt to get the job done again against Lions, with the aim of making the final of the competition in the evening against the winner of the Dafabet Warriors vs Dafabet Boland match.
That clash opens the day’s festivities at 09:30 in the morning at the same venue.
Before their Super 8s adventure they came third in Pool A behind Momentum Multiply Titans and Boland, with an impressive six wins after playing all seven of their matches.
Their solitary loss in the round robin came against Titans on match-day one, but found their rhythm to them win the rest of their remaining games.
Their two bonus point wins against both World Sports Betting Eastern Storm and Boland helped them carry 10 points over to the Super 8s.
At that stage 10 points from their final two wins and their shared spoils with Hollywoodbets Dolphins took them to 20, and into the safe bracket heading to the final day.
On the other hand Lions won five of their matches in the pool stage and were defeated by North West Dragons, while their match against Warriors was abandoned.
That did little to deter their campaign, though, as they still finished top of Pool B to stroll their way into the Super 8s.
Their carry-over was 10 points before earning 13 more with two regular wins and a bonus point one to get them to 23 points just behind Warriors.