Cape Town Blitz were a franchise team of the South African Mzansi Super League (MSL)

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. Cape Town Blitz played in the first two editions of the MLS in

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, before COVID-19 delayed the competition in 2020. The side finished as runners up in 2018 but were dissolved in 2021 in response to the reform of the domestic structure of South African cricket. All six of the original city-based franchise teams in the Mzansi Super League were to have been replaced by eight new teams based around the new South African domestic structure, but the league itself was later cancelled and replaced by a new franchise competition, the SA20, beginning in the 2022/23 season.

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* {{ESPNcricinfo, ref=team/_/id/1162627/capetownblitz/, check-wikidata=no Cricket teams in South Africa Mzansi Super League Sport in Cape Town Cricket in the Western Cape