While South Africa’s Test team was on the field against Sri Lanka in Gqeberha, a separate group of players were in Pretoria preparing for a Twenty20 series against Pakistan.
The T20 squad, captained by Heinrich Klaasen, flew to Durban on Sunday where the first T20I will be played on Tuesday — the day after South Africa wrapped up a Test win in Gqeberha.
It is the first of six white-ball matches—three T20 internationals and three one-day internationals—to be played by Pakistan before it meets South Africa in two Test matches.
Only Ryan Rickelton of the current South African Test team is due to play in the T20 series – although regular white-ball captain Aiden Markram as well as Tristan Stubbs, Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen would all be likely choices in a full-strength team.
Pakistan, too, will make multiple changes between formats, with only white-ball captain Mohammad Rizwan, Babar Azam, Saim Ayub and Salman Ali Agha due to…
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