MTN Domestic Championship
| Countries | South Africa |
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| Administrator | Cricket South Africa |
| Format | List A cricket |
| First tournament | 1981-82 |
| Last tournament | 2015-16 |
| Tournament format | Double round-robin and playoffs |
| Number of teams | 6 |
| Current champion | Lions |
 2016–17 Momentum One Day Cup
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The Momentum One Day Cup (formerly known as the One Day Cup, MTN Domestic Championship and Standard Bank Cup) is the premier domestic one-day cricket competition of South Africa, its matches having List A status. Matches are usually played partly under lights as day-night matches and occasionally get larger crowds than the Test matches.
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. The following season was the last with regional teams – in 2004–05 the United Cricket Board of South Africa reorganised the competition, with six franchise teams playing each other home and away. This system has remained, though the tournament was known as MTN Domestic Competition until the 2010–11 season and the One Day Cup for the 2011–12 season.
In the 2007–08 season, Zimbabwe took part in the competition as a seventh side, playing both home and away fixtures.
Momentum One Day Cup 2017 will feature six teams, playing a total of 32 matches (30 league matches, quarter final and the final). Momentum One Day Cup 2017 will be the 36th season of domestic cricket. The competition is scheduled to start on 17 February 2017 and the final on 2 April 2017.
The six teams taking part in 2012–13 were:
They play each other twice home and away in November–December 2012 followed by a play-off and final. The top team qualifies automatically for the final with the teams placed second and third having a play-off to meet the top team in the final.
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