DIAMOND EAGLES is the brand name for the central franchise of Cricket South Africa and has been the most successful franchise in terms of winning trophies. The constituent members are the Free State and Griqualand West Cricket Boards. Their home grounds are the OUTsurance Oval in Bloemfontein and the De Beers Diamond Oval in Kimberley.

They are one of only two franchises - the Nashua Titans are the other - to have won all three domestic trophies in the course of the past four seasons and have altogether had five trophy successes.

A significant feature of their success has been the number of home grown players in their squad and, although they do not possess a CSA contracted player at present, that has not always been the case with two of their stars of the recent past, Nicky Boje and Boeta Dippenaar, having only recently retired from international cricket.

The Diamond Eagles have the advantage of a settled squad that does not lose players to the national set-up but that could change very quickly as they have any number of the country's best young talents in the like of batsmen Dean Elgar and Rilee Rossouw and fast bowler CJ de Villiers.

They have regained the services of Ryan Mclaren on a full-time basis and he is one player who is a definite Proteas' contender. Another is Johan van der Wath who becomes available again after cutting his ties with the rebel Indian Cricket League.

The current Diamond Eagles captain is Dippenaar and the coach Sarel Cilliers.

Squad: Boeta Dippenaar, Dean Elgar, Reeza Hendricks, Rilee Rossouw, Morne van Wyk, Ryan Bailey, Adrian Mclaren, Ryan Mclaren, Johan van der Wath, Con de Lange, Thandi Tshabalala, CJ de Villiers, Dillon du Preez, Victor Mpitsang, Jandre Coetzee, Allan Kruger, Shadley van Schalkwyk.