Knights (cricket team)

VKB Knights

Captain:	Werner Coetsee
Coach:	Nicky Boje
Overseas player:	Andre Russell
Colors:	Blue Gold
Founded:	2003
Home ground:	Mangaung Oval, Diamond Oval
Capacity:	20,000
Official website:	Knights

The VKB Knights are a franchise cricket team composed of the Free State and Griqualand West first class cricket areas in South Africa. The team previously competed as the Diamond Eagles. Their home venues are the Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein and the Diamond Oval in Kimberley, and the side competes in the Sunfoil Series, the Momentum 1 Day Cup, and the Ram Slam T20 Challenge

Playing kit

During the Momentum 1 Day Cup, the Knights's play in dark blue shirts and trousers with gold accents; for the Ram Slam T20 Challenge they wear dark blue shirts with gold accents and gold trousers with dark blue accents. Their current kit provider is TK Sports.

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Opening Batsmen
	Gerhardt Abrahams	(1990-08-09) 9 August 1990	Right-handed	-
	Michael Erlank	(1989-07-04) 4 July 1989	Left-handed	Right arm off break
17	Reeza Hendricks	(1989-08-14) 14 August 1989	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Batsmen
	Obus Pienaar	(1989-12-12) 12 December 1989	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Diego Rosier	(1994-05-02) 2 May 1994	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
9	Rilee Rossouw	(1989-10-09) 9 October 1989	Left-handed	Right arm off break
	Pite van Biljon	(1986-04-15) 15 April 1986	Right-handed	Right arm medium
	Theunis de Bruyn (on loan from the Titans)	(1992-10-10) 10 October 1992	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Wicket Keepers
	Tumelo Bodibe	(1987-03-18) 18 March 1987	Right-handed		Opener
	Rudi Second	(1989-07-17) 17 July 1989	Right-handed	Right arm off break
	Letlotlo Sesele	(1988-03-23) 23 March 1988	Right-handed		Opener
All-rounders
	Patrick Botha	(1990-01-23) 23 January 1990	Left-handed	Right-arm off-spin
	Ryan McLaren (on loan from the Dolphins^[1])	(1983-02-09) 9 February 1983	Left-handed	Right-arm medium fast
	Werner Coetsee	(1983-03-16) 16 March 1983	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	Captain
16	Shadley van Schalkwyk	(1988-08-05) 5 August 1988	Left-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Spin Bowlers
Seam Bowlers
	Jandre Coetzee	(1984-01-15) 15 January 1984	Left-handed	Left arm medium
	Corné Dry	(1993-02-04) 4 February 1993	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
26	Dillon du Preez	(1981-11-08) 8 November 1981	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
	Quinton Friend	(1982-02-16) 16 February 1982	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
	Tumi Masekela	(1987-07-21) 21 July 1987	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
	Bokang Mosena	(1991-02-06) 6 February 1991	Right-handed	Right arm medium
	Duanne Olivier	(1992-05-09) 9 May 1992	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
	Malusi Siboto	(1987-08-20) 20 August 1987	Right-handed	Right arm medium

2015 Squad per Cricinfo (plus amateurs who have played in 2014/15 and 15/16 seasons)

Champions League Twenty20

Qualification and first round

Diamond Eagles finished second in the 2009 Standard Bank Pro20 and became eligible to play in the 2009 Champions League Twenty20. The team was placed in Group B with New South Wales Blues and Sussex Sharks. The team lost their first match against the New South Wales Blues and were not able to make 100 runs and stayed on 91/9 but the second match went for a tied with Sussex Sharks in which the scores were tied at 119/7 (Sussex) and 119/4(Eagles). Eagles clinched the Super Over. In the Super Over Eagles scored 9/1 while Sussex were knocked of the first two balls by Cornelius de Villiers and the Man of the Match was awarded to Rilee Rossouw.

Second round

After some twists and turns Eagles made it to the next round where they were placed in League A with New South Wales Blues, Somerset Sabres and Trinidad and Tobago. They were counted as a loss to Blues as their previous result and a win against the Somerset Sabres but lost against the Trinidad side in a must-win match. CJ de Villiers again performed well in the game against Somerset CCC. They didn't qualify for the semis but earned 7th out of 12 teams.

Honours

SuperSport Series (1) - 2007–08 ; shared (1) - 2004–05
MTN Championship (2) - 2004–05, 2005–06, 2010–11
Pro20 Series (2) - 2003–04, 2005–06

External sources

Knights website

References

↑ https://cricket.co.za/news/9158/Knights-happy-to-make-a-fresh-start

South African Cricket Annual – various editions
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack – various editions

South African cricket

Franchise cricket

Teams

Competitions

Seasons

First-class	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

List A	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Twenty20	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Provincial cricket

Teams	Boland Border Eastern Province Easterns Free State Gauteng Griqualand West KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal Inland Namibia North West Northerns South Western Districts Western Province

Competitions	Three-Day Competition One-Day Competition Pro20 Competition Africa T20 Cup

Kei, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe have also competed in major South African domestic competitions

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