Whereas South Africa’s Take a look at group have been on the sphere towards Sri Lanka in Gqeberha, a separate group of gamers have been in Pretoria getting ready for a Twenty20 collection towards Pakistan.
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The T20 squad, captained by Heinrich Klaasen, flew to Durban on Sunday the place the primary T20 worldwide will probably be performed on Tuesday – the day after South Africa wrapped up a Take a look at win in Gqeberha.
It’s the first of six white-ball matches – three T20 internationals and three one-day internationals – to be performed by Pakistan earlier than they meet South Africa in two Take a look at matches.
Solely Ryan Rickelton of the present South African Take a look at group is because of play within the T20 collection – though common white-ball captain Aiden Markram in addition to Tristan Stubbs, Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen would all be seemingly selections in a full-strength group.
Pakistan, too, will make a number of modifications between codecs, with solely white-ball captain Mohammad Rizwan, Babar Azam, Saim Ayub and Salman Ali Agha as a consequence of play in all three collection.
South African white-ball coach Rob Walter has known as up quick bowler Anrich Nortje and left-arm wrist spinner Tabraiz Shamsi for the T20 collection.
Nortje and Shamsi have been South Africa’s main bowlers on the T20 World Cup, serving to the group attain the ultimate. However they’ve opted out of nationwide contracts with the intention to play in franchise tournaments all over the world.
Regardless of their profitable World Cup marketing campaign, Walter is beneath stress due to South Africa’s poor file in bilateral collection – they’ve misplaced 5 and drawn two of seven collection – however he has seldom been capable of discipline a full-strength group.
Pakistan are coming off a white-ball tour of Zimbabwe, the place they gained each the one-day and T20 collection.
Earlier than that they have been in Australia the place they misplaced all three T20 matches however gained a one-day collection 2-1.
Pakistan will discipline a powerful quick bowling line-up in each white-ball collection, together with Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf, who are usually not a part of their Take a look at squad.
The T20 squad contains left-arm wrist spinner Sufyan Moqim, who took 5 wickets for simply three runs within the second T20 worldwide towards Zimbabwe in Bulawayo final Tuesday.
Restricted overs fixtures:
December 10, first T20 worldwide, Durban
December 13, second T20 worldwide, Centurion
December 14, third T20 worldwide, Johannesburg
December 17, first one-day worldwide, Paarl
December 19, second one-day worldwide, Cape City
December 22, third one-day worldwide, Johannesburg
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