{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Use South African English|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox cricket team | name = Paarl Rocks | alt_name = | image = File:Paarl_Rocks_logo.png | alt = Paarl Rocks logo | captain = Faf du Plessis | coach = Adrian Birrell | city = Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa | colours = | founded = 2018 | ground = Boland Park, Paarl | website = | t_pattern_la = | t_pattern_b = _whirlpattern | t_pattern_ra = | t_pattern_pants = | t_leftarm = A23F97 | t_body = A23F97 | t_rightarm = A23F97 | t_pants = A23F97 | current = }}
'''Paarl Rocks''' are a franchise team of the South African Mzansi Super League Twenty20 cricket tournament founded in 2018. The team was based at Boland Park in Paarl. The coach was Adrian Birrell.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mohamed |first1=Afshak |title=Cape Town Blitz, Jozi Stars head up Mzansi Super League, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle among big names {{!}} IOL |url=https://www.iol.co.za/sport/cricket/domestic/cape-town-blitz-jozi-stars-head-up-mzansi-super-league-ab-de-villiers-chris-gayle-among-big-names-17483477 |access-date=28 October 2018 |publisher=iol.co.za |date=15 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
Paarl Rocks played in the first two editions of the MLS in 2018 and 2019, before COVID-19 delayed the competition in 2020. The team won the competition in 2019<ref>{{Cite web|title=Faf du Plessis' Paarl Rocks win Mzansi Super League|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/1536495|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.icc-cricket.com|language=en}}</ref> 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 All six of the original city-based franchise teams in the Mzansi Super League were to have been replaced by eight new teams based around the new South African domestic structure,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mzansi Super League set for expansion with two new teams|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/mzansi-super-league-set-for-expansion-with-two-new-teams-1222231|access-date=2021-12-14|website=ESPNcricinfo|language=en}}</ref> but the league itself was later cancelled and replaced by a new franchise competition, the SA20, beginning in the 2022/23 season.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
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Category:Cricket teams in South Africa Category:Mzansi Super League Category:Paarl Category:Cricket in the Western Cape