The Sunfoil Series and RamSlam T20 Challenge champions are also set to announce the signing on Friday of two young batsmen just looking for half-a-chance to reach their potential.
The 28-year-old Siboto has been the banker of the Knights attack and took 28 Sunfoil Series wickets at an average of just 20 this season, as well as being the leading wicket-taker in the Momentum One-Day Cup and matching West Indian team-mate Andre Russell’s excellent figures in the RamSlam T20 Challenge.
Siboto has taken 98 wickets in 39 matches at an average of 31 in all Sunfoil Series cricket and the left-handed batsman is also very capable with the willow and will lengthen the Titans’ tail.
“He can perform in all three formats, he’s a really solid and consistent bowler and we needed some seniority in our attack to help bring the young bowlers through. He brings experience and has been a very successful bowler with the Knights,” Titans coach Rob Walter told The Citizen.
The signing of Siboto does compensate for the loss of fast bowler De Lange to the Knights.
“He’s a very different bowler to Marchant but we still have Rowan Richards, the spin options are still there, David Wiese and Chris Morris will play if they’re not with the national side and these guys can combine with our youth,” Walter said.
Apart from luring one of the most consistent bowlers in franchise cricket, Jonathan Vandiar and Daniel Sincuba, both from the Dolphins, are the batsmen moving to Centurion.
Vandiar was considered one of the brightest young batting talents in the country when he played for the Highveld Lions as an U19 star, before joining the Dolphins in the 2012/13 season. But the left-hander has never really fulfilled his talent, something Walter wants to change.
“Everyone knows he has talent and we’d like to help him realise that. If you go back a few years at the Lions, he was close to national honours and then just got lost a bit. He’s certainly got potential and I believe he can thrive in our environment,” Walter said.
Sincuba impressed the Titans when he scored 41 against them last season in Durban, but the 23-year-old has only played sporadically for the Dolphins since then. He will join the Titans as the back-up wicketkeeper to Heinrich Klaasen, with Mangaliso Mosehle having joined the Lions.
