It featured section A and B Currie Cup teams competing in the first round of eight, with the winners going through to the semi-finals, with a final at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.
This inexperienced team lost their two games by over 200 runs with Alan Barrow scoring 202 not out for Natal in 1975.
This was introduced to "encourage inventiveness and enterprise" [1] The following season, 1991–92, the competition reverted to 11 per side as South Africa had been re-admitted to the ICC.
Their "Mean Machine" side, mainly led by Clive Rice, won the competition seven times in eight years between 1979 and 1986.
Gillette Cup Datsun Shield Nissan Shield Total Power Series Transvaal won 9 times, Western Province and Eastern Province 4 each, Natal 3, Orange Free State 2, Rhodesia and Eddie Barlow XI 1 each.