Every major cricketing nation has got their own robust domestic circuit tournaments and in South Africa, the same applies as well. For List A cricketers, there’s the CSA One-Day Cup which has been around for decades now, having names such as Standard Bank Cup, MTN Domestic Championship, and the Momentum One-Day Cup in the past due to various sponsorship reasons.
Cricket South Africa (CSA) initiated this List A tournament all the way back in the 1981/82 season, beginning with as few as five participating teams, at the time known as the Benson and Hedges Series. Then in the 1994/95 season, participation moved to 11 regional teams from South Africa, with an increasing number of teams being promoted from B cricket groups in the country.
At the time, the tournament was called Standard Bank League and then Standard Bank Cup and these 11 teams played continuously, until Namibia as a nation was added to the mix in the 2002/03 season. Zimbabwe also played the competition in the 2007/08 season. In between, CSA tried a 6-team franchise format for all of their List A, First Class, and T20 tournaments, only to return to this traditional format.
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Today, we have a total of 15 teams playing in the CSA One-Day Cup, with 8 of them playing Division One and 7 playing in the Division Two group. Ever since inception of the tournament, we’ve jotted down a complete CSA One-Day Cup winners list, last updated 23rd September 2023, at the start of the CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge Division One 2023. Take a look at the complete list below:
Complete CSA One-Day Cup winners list
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Venue | Man of the Match |
| 1981-82 | Transvaal | Natal | Johannesburg | Alvin Kallicharran – 85 |
| 1982-83 | Transvaal (2) | Western Province | Johannesburg | Graham Gooch – 85 & 1/61 |
| 1983-84 | Natal | Eastern Province | Johannesburg | Ian Daniell – 85 |
| 1984-85 | Transvaal (3) | Northern Transvaal | Johannesburg | Clive Rice – 55* & 2/32 |
| 1985-86 | Western Province | Transvaal | Johannesburg | Ken McEwan – 102* |
| 1986-87 | Western Province (2) | Transvaal | Cape Town | Lawrence Seeff – 84 |
| 1987-88 | Western Province (3) | Transvaal | Johannesburg | Adrian Kuiper – 13 & 4/28 |
| 1988-89 | Orange Free State | Western Province | Cape Town | Allan Donald – 4/18 |
| 1989-90 | Eastern Province | Natal | Durban | Dave Callaghan – 65* & 1/36 |
| 1990-91 | Western Province (4) | Natal | Cape Town | Eric Simons – 3/27 |
| 1991-92 | Eastern Province (2) | Western Province | Johannesburg | Kepler Wessels – 103 |
| 1992-93 | Transvaal (4) | Natal | Durban | Mandy Yachad – 86 |
| 1993-94 | Orange Free State (2) | Natal | Durban | Bradley Player – 5/27 |
| 1994-95 | Orange Free State (3) | Eastern Province | Bloemfontein | Philippus Steyn – 53 (43) |
| 1995-96 | Orange Free State (4) | Transvaal | Johannesburg | Bradley Player – 83 (50) & 3/36 |
| 1996-97 | Natal (2) | Western Province | Durban | Dale Benkenstein – 37 (30)* & 1/6 |
| 1997-98 | *Gauteng (5) | Northern Cape | Centurion | Keith Ingram – 4/39 |
| 1998-99 | Griqualand West | Border | East London | Mickey Arthur – 83 (106) |
| 1999-00 | Boland | Eastern Province | Paarl | Justin Ontong – 67 (73) |
| 2000-01 | **KwaZulu Natal (3) | Northern Cape | Durban | Wade Wingfield – 61 (89) |
| 2001-02 | KwaZulu Natal (4) | Western Province | Durban | Dale Benkenstein – 77 (93)* |
| 2002-03 | Western Province (5) | Griqualand West | Cape Town | Herschelle Gibbs – 67 (44)* |
| 2003-04 | Gauteng (6) | Eastern Cape | Johannesburg | David Terbrugge – 2/31 |
| 2004-05 | Diamond Eagles | Titans | Bloemfontein | Boeta Dipenaar – 92 (84) |
| 2005-06 | Diamond Eagles (2) | Titans | Centurion | Johan van der Wath – 20 (42) & 3/25 |
| 2006-07 | Cape Cobras | Warriors | Cape Town | Con de Lange – 4/40 |
| 2007-08 | Titans | Warriors | Centurion | Roelof van der Merwe – 52 (58) & 4/42 |
| 2008-09 | Titans (2) | Diamond Eagles | Bloemfontein | Paul Harris – 5/27 |
| 2009-10 | Warriors | Dolphins | East London | Ashwell Prince – 128 (96) |
| 2010-11 | Knights | Titans | Centurion | Morne van Wyk – 85* (70) & 4 catches |
| 2011-12 | Cape Cobras (2) | Warriors | Cape Town | Charl Langeveldt – 5/45 |
| 2012-13 | Cape Cobras (3) / Lions | – | Johannesburg | – |
| 2013-14 | Cape Cobras (4) / Titans (3) | – | Cape Town | – |
| 2014-15 | Titans (4) | Cape Cobras | Cape Town | Albie Morkel – 134 (103)* |
| 2015-16 | Lions (2) | Cape Cobras | Cape Town | Stephen Cook – 77 (94)* |
| 2016-17 | Titans (5) | Warriors | Centurion | Aiden Markram – 161 (123) & 1/7 |
| 2017-18 | Dolphins / Warriors (2) | – | Durban | – |
| 2018-19 | Titans (6) | Dolphins | Centurion | Aiden Markram – 127 (88) |
| 2019-20 | ***Dolphins (2) | – | – | – |
| 2020-21 | Dolphins (3) / Lions (3) | – | Potchefstroom | – |
| 2021-22 | Lions (4) | Titans | Centurion | Reeza Hendricks – 157 (135) |
| 2022-23 | Lions (5) | Western Province | Johannesburg | Lutho Sipamla – 5/71 |
| 2023-24 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
*Gauteng was formerly Transvaal.
**KwaZulu Natal was formerly Natal.
***The tournament was suspended post the group stages due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with Dolphins later on being announced as champions on recommendation of Graeme Smith, but they were the table toppers at the time of suspension as well.
A few times in recent years, the final and its reserve days were washed out due to rain, leading to the trophy being shared. In the modern age among the franchise clubs, Titans is the most successful team in CSA One-Day Cup history, with as many as six (6) titles to their name between 2007-08 and 2018-19. They’ll want to get back to winning ways now as its been 3 years since they last won this List A tournament.
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Talking about individual performers, quite a few players have stepped up and shown their talent and class in the final of a CSA One-Day Cup competition. Most recently, Aiden Markram scored two big centuries in match-winning finals for the Titans in 2016-17 and 2018-19, winning the Man of the Match awards in both games.
Before him, Dale Benkenstein was another player who won two MOM awards in separate finals, for performances with both bat and ball for Natal and then KwaZulu Natal. And even before him, Orange Free State’s Bradley Player who won two MOM awards in three years between 1993-94 and 1995-96. All of these players have written their names in the history of this competition!
From the first season of the tournament until the 1987-88 season, no official man of the match awards were given out. It was only post that when the MOM awards started being recorded, but we’ve mentioned the top performer from those respective finals above. For real-time updates on the CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge winners list, stay tuned to ReadScoops.com.
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