Durban's Super Giants Squad, 2027 Fixtures & 2026 Results

Durban's Super Giants are the Durban-based SA20 franchise owned by RPSG Sports Private Limited, the company behind the Super Giants sports group. The team itself competes only in SA20; Lucknow and Manchester are separate clubs with separate records.

DSG finished fifth in Season 4 with three wins, four losses and three no-results. Their 19 points came from 12 win points, six no-result points and one bonus point, but fourth-placed Joburg Super Kings had four wins and 22 points after the final league match.

Aiden Markram captained the completed campaign and made 309 runs, while Eathan Bosch led the attack with seven wickets. Markram is explicitly retained as captain for Season 5; the club's current technical-team directory still lists Lance Klusener as head coach, while an older About page retains an outdated Quinton de Kock captain field.

The equal count hides a real roster change. The franchise's post-season Season 4 directory had 19 names, and its 5 August announcement also confirmed 19 retained or pre-signed players for Season 5, but the two groups are not identical.

Sam Curran, Devon Conway, Tony de Zorzi and Kyle Simmonds are in the current 2027 group. Noor Ahmad, David Wiese, Dayyaan Galiem and Taijul Islam appeared in the older final directory but were not named in the Season 5 announcement.

This page's squad grid follows the current announcement. The 2026 results and leaders remain attached to the completed campaign, so a 2027 roster place is never presented as proof of a 2026 appearance.

Durban earned 12 points from three wins and six points from three no-results. The 58-run final-round win over Paarl Royals also earned the team's only bonus point, taking the total to 19.

The tied 205–205 match at the Wanderers did not add a tie point because Joburg Super Kings won the Super Over. The official table therefore records it among DSG's four losses, while the results row preserves both the regulation tie and the decider.

That breakdown reconciles the table exactly: three wins, four losses, three no-results, one bonus point and 19 total points across ten league matches.

DSG had completed all ten matches and briefly moved to fourth after beating Paarl Royals. Qualification was still conditional: MI Cape Town had to miss a bonus-point route and Joburg Super Kings had to lose their final game.

MI Cape Town were eliminated first, but JSK then beat Paarl Royals with a bonus point. That moved JSK to 22 points and four wins, leaving DSG fifth on 19 points and three wins.

The key lesson is that DSG's final victory kept them alive; it did not clinch a place. The official post-season review confirms fifth, rather than freezing the table immediately after Match 27.

No. A stadium can host a tournament playoff even when its resident franchise does not qualify. Kingsmead staged the 2026 Qualifier 1 between Sunrisers Eastern Cape and Pretoria Capitals after DSG had finished fifth.

DSG's own Season 4 record contains ten league matches and no playoff. For Season 5, the official schedule assigns five home league fixtures at Kingsmead, beginning against Sunrisers Eastern Cape on 21 January 2027.

Separating team participation from venue hosting prevents an extra match from being added to DSG's results and avoids treating neutral competition programming as a home-team achievement.

No. Aiden Markram captained DSG in Season 4, and the franchise's 5 August 2026 release says he will continue to lead the team in Season 5. That dated announcement is the current captaincy evidence.

The club's older About page still names Quinton de Kock as captain, even though he moved to Sunrisers Eastern Cape before Season 4. This is a stale site field, not a second active captaincy appointment.

For changing roles, a dated season announcement and recent match evidence outrank an undated biography block. The page therefore lists Markram and records the source conflict internally instead of repeating both names without context.