Hashim Amla to captain and Mark Boucher to keep wickets for South Africa – Cricket News Update
Hashim http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887’ absence.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Allan-Robert-Border-c43726 de Villiers has been ruled out of the series, after the batsman fractured his finger during a practice session for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). The batsman will be out of action for six weeks. This will be Amla’s first
series in charge as the 28-year-old has never led his side before.
South Africa is scheduled to tour http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 for a series comprising of two Twenty20s, three ODI’s and two Test matches. The series will start from Thursday, October 13, with a T20 match at Newlands, Cape Town.
South Africa's chairman of selectors, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Charles-Hudson-c44308, was the one who revealed the squad for the series. Mark Boucher, the veteran wicket-keeper, has been included in the ODI outfit as a replacement for de Villiers. Boucher has
been out of South Africa’s ODI team since playing against the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 at Port of Spain on June 3, 2010.
Hudson made public http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757’s ODI team formation, and said, “We will probably go in with seven batsmen, including Boucher at No. 7, and we have kept all our bowling options that worked well at the World Cup. We will be able
to go in with four specialist bowlers plus the back-up of Kallis, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JP-Duminy-c1742 and Faf du Plessis.”
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692 and Dale Steyn will not be part of Proteas Twenty20 squad as per the rotation policy of Cricket South Africa (CSA). Both players deserved rest and Richard Levi and Juan Theron are included in the team as their substitutes.
“We have left Jacques Kallis and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 as well as the
World Twenty20, and we must manage our senior players sensibly,” confirmed Hudson.
Test squad for the South African team will be announced later.
One-day squad: Hashim Amla (captain), Graeme Smith, Johan Botha, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Tahir, David Miller, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Lonwabo
Tsotsobe, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RJ-Peterson-c2332,
Twenty20 squad: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HG-Kuhn-c1548,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/WD-Parnell-c2787,
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