” Unfortunately David Wiese fractured his right hand last week Sunday while taking a return catch off his own bowling”, he said.
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He will replace injured David Wiese.
Albie Morkel has been recalled by South Africa for the upcoming Twenty20 series against India.
Even the bowling unit sans Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel has a specialist T20 feel to it. In any case Steyn and Morkel have not been their prime T20 performers and will join the squad during the ODI series. “When you get there at the beginning of your career, the fans can be quite intimidating”, du Plessis was quoted as saying by thenews.com.pk.
“The challenge for us as a team is that we have a few younger players that haven’t travelled as much so we need to try and bridge that gap as quickly as possible”.
As of now, none of these players are really close to senior India team whose core looks set but with the ICC World T20 in another five months, a good performance can obviously make a difference.
Coming back to playing under Dhoni, Du Plessis, who has developed a calm demeanour similar to MSD’s, will surely take cues from what he watched his CSK skipper doing on the field. Albie, who played the last of his 49 T20Is against India at the 2014 World T20, was to captain Northerns in the Africa T20 Cup. He is pretty clever in the middle, he is a very smart bowler.
“Albie brings a lot of experience and is getting another opportunity because he is a quality player”, said Du Plessis.
“If you look at someone like Eddie Leie, he is probably a left-field inclusion but it is to give guys who are not as experienced as playing in India through the IPL an opportunity”, du Plessis said.
“Furthermore, Rilee Rossouw has been ruled out of the One-Day global (ODI) series following recommendations from Cricket South Africa’s medical committee and will be replaced by Khaya Zondo in the squad”, read the Cricket South Africa website.
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A strong South African T20 squad with a judicious blend of youth and experience will open their campaign in a 72-day long tour, when they take on a talented bunch of India A youngsters in a T20 warm-up game, here tomorrow.
