MI Cape Town

In August 2022, Cricket South Africa announced the establishment of the SA20, a Twenty20 Cricket competition to be started in 2023. The teams for the competition, representing six different cities, including Cape Town, were put up for auction in September 2022. The Cape Town franchise was purchased by Mumbai Indians, led by Reliance Industries.

In 2023, they recruited major overseas stars like Rashid Khan, Jofra Archer, Sam Curran and Liam Livingstone, along with big domestic names like Kagiso Rabada, Dewald Brevis (both pre-auction signings), and Rassie van der Dussen (acquired in the player auction) in their first season and had a promising start. By 6 games, they were with 3 wins and losses each, but went out to lose their next 4 games to finish at the bottom of the table with 7 losses and 3 wins. Van der Dussen finished as their leading run-getter, with 243 runs in 10 innings, while Rabada finished as their highest wicket-taker, with 11 wickets in 8 innings.

In 2024, in their next season, with Rashid and Archer injured, they brought Kieron Pollard from MI Emirates and appointed him as the captain for the season. They retained Jofra Archer, Sam Curran and Liam Livingstone. They also bought in the services of Sri-Lankan speedster Nuwan Thushara and English keeper-batter Chris Benjamin. Again after a decent start with 2 wins and losses apiece, they went on to lose 5 of their next 6 to again finish their campaign again at the bottom of the table with 7 losses and 3 wins, identical to their first season. Ryan Rickelton had a breakthrough season, finishing with 530 runs in 10 innings, while Rabada was once again their top wicket-taker with 9 in 10 innings.