Australian team

The team also played a friendly match against the Vanuatu national women’s cricket team.

During the weeklong tour, the visitors held training sessions and participated in school competitions.

“It’s not all about cricket, the Cricket Without Borders delegation also visited schools, children with disabilities and communities and provided much needed sporting equipment,” a statement said.

The restructuring comes after widespread criticism of the first season of the 18-team format, which was introduced in 2016 after Argentina's Jaguares and the Sunwolves of Japan, joined the competition and the Port Elizabeth-based Kings returned.

SANZAAR has left it to the national rugby unions involved to announce the teams to be cut, Australia's Perth-based Western Force and South Africa's Kings and Cheetahs widely considered the most vulnerable franchises.