Bavuma Back To Lead South Africa At T20 World Cup
Zeeshan Mehtab Published September 06, 2022 | 05:20 PM
Johannesburg, Sept 6 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th Sep, 2022 ) :Temba Bavuma will captain South Africa at the International Cricket Council's T20 World Cup in Australia in October after recovering from an elbow injury.
Bavuma was injured during a T20 international in India in June and was forced to miss South Africa's multi-format tour of England which ends next week. He made a return to action during a low-key T20 tournament currently being played in Namibia.
The squad announced by Cricket South Africa selection convener Victor Mpitsang on Tuesday includes explosive batsman Tristan Stubbs, 22, who hit eight sixes in scoring 72 off 28 balls against England in his first international innings in Bristol in July.
"He's young, he's exciting and he's fearless and he plays the brand of cricket that (coach) Mark Boucher wants the team to play," said Mpitsang.
There was no place, though, for Dewald Brevis, 19, who set a run-scoring record in the Under-19 World Cup in the West Indies in January. Brevis, nicknamed "Baby AB" for his similarities to retired star AB de Villiers, has been signed up by T20 franchises in India, the Caribbean and South Africa - but has yet to play a first-class or List A match.
Middle order batsman Rassie van der Dussen was a notable omission.
Mpitsang said Van der Dussen needed six weeks to recover from a broken finger suffered in the second Test against England.
Bavuma, 32, was appointed South African white-ball captain in March 2021 - the first black African to lead the country - but critics have pointed out that his batting strike rate of 120.60 is lower than that of other specialist batsmen competing for a place in the starting line-up.
Mpitsang said Bavuma would open the batting at the World Cup and said it was "difficult" to envisage a situation where Bavuma might not be in the playing eleven.
Mpitsang said the World Cup squad of 15 players as well as three travelling reserves for the global event would play in a three-match T20 series in India, starting on September 28.
South African T20 World Cup squad:Temba Bavuma (captain), Quinton De Kock (wkt), Reeza Hendricks, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Wayne Parnell, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Rilee Rossouw, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs. Travelling reserves: Bjorn Fortuin, Marco Jansen, Andile Phehlukwayo.
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