Cricket South Africa calls Rilee Rossouw as replacement
Cricket South Africa (CSA) called up rookie batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Malaysia-c2949.
The South Africa A team is due to visit http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 and Malaysia this summer to play in a multi-team limited-overs tournaments.
Rossouw, the 21-year old left-hand top order batsman, was not part of the original squad announced for the tours. But after Elgar pulled out with a broken hand, the CSA selectors decided to include Rossouw in the squad.
CSA’s medical committee confirmed Elgar's hand injury and announced Rilee as his replacement.
"We are sorry to lose a senior player at this level in Dean, who has also captained this group with distinction," the Cricket http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Charles-Hudson-c44308 said, "but at the same time this is an opportunity for Rilee
and, as I have said before, we are delighted to have the depth that enables us to call up a replacement of this calibre".
This would not be Rossouw’s first international assignment with the A team. He was also part of the squads that toured http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in 2010.
The left-hander started his cricketing career as an Under-19 player in November 2007 and has so far played 39 first-class, 48 List A and 20 Twenty20 matches. Among all the three formats of game, his first-class record is the best,
as he has scored a tally of 2967 runs at an impressive average of 43.63 including 9 centuries and 13 half centuries.
Rossouw has compiled 1656 runs from 48 List A appearances at an average of 36.80. In List A cricket, he has scored 4 hundreds and 9 fifties.
The top-order batsman has been least impressive in the shortest format of game where he averaged only 17.15 after 20 games. In the twenty20 form of game, he only has one half-century in his name.
He was also a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) squad in the recently concluded season 4 of the Indian Premier League where RCB finished as runners-up after losing to Chennai Super Kings in the final.
South Africa A is scheduled to play a tri-series in Zimbabwe in June-July this year. Besides South Africa and Zimbabwe, the series would feature http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 A as the third team.
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