The tournament has been played since
the 1982–83 season when five teams competed in the
Benson and Hedges Series. The tournament gradually expanded, with eleven teams taking part from
1994–95 onwards, as more and more teams were promoted from the B groups of South African cricket. Two seasons later, it was renamed the
Standard Bank League, and then the
Standard Bank Cup, but the same teams competed, until
Namibia were admitted in
2002–03. To reflect the wider structural changes that were happening across South African cricket, from the 2004-05 season the competition was re-organised to mirror both the Four-Day and T20 leagues. The six newly created, entirely professional, franchises would take part in the tournament, with the former provincial teams continuing in a separate semi-professional CSA structure. In the 2007–08 season,
Zimbabwe took part in the competition as a seventh side, playing both home and away fixtures. Domestic cricketing reforms were introduced in 2020 that discontinued the six franchise team format and began a return to the more traditional provincial based system. Fifteen teams, split over the two divisions, now compete in the One-Day tournament. In Division 1, five of the six teams who competed in the
2020–21 CSA Four-Day Franchise Series opted to retain their franchise brand, with only the former
Cape Cobras reverting to their traditional
Western Province name. They were joined in Division 1 by
Boland and
North West. Matches featuring either
Limpopo or
Mpumalanga, both in Division 2, do not have List A status. On 30 March 2022, in the Division One match between
Titans and
North West, Titans scored 453/3 from their 50 overs, setting a record for the
highest total in a List A match in South Africa. in 2024-25 Season is 45 edition. ==Winners==