New Delhi. 2024 is proving to be a golden year for South Africa's Heinrich Klaasen. This wicketkeeper batsman scored a lot of runs this year from IPL to T20 World Cup. He first got his reward from IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad. SRH retained Heinrich Klaasen for the most expensive price of Rs 23 crore. He has received second good news from his national team. Heinrich Klaasen has been made the captain of the team for the T20 series against Pakistan.
T20 series is to be played between South Africa and Pakistan from next week. Many South African players including Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen will not be able to play in this series. These players are taking part in the test series against Sri Lanka. In the absence of Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen has been chosen as the captain of the T20 team. Matthew Britzke, Kwena Mafaka and Ryan Rickelton will join the T20 team after the Test series in Sri Lanka.
Pakistan has to play T20, ODI and Test series on South Africa tour. It will start with the T20 series, the first match of which will be held on 10th December. Pakistan team is on Zimbabwe tour these days. He had to face defeat in the first ODI match in Zimbabwe. After this he made a good comeback. In the third T20 match, Pakistan had bowled out Zimbabwe for 57 runs and won the match by 10 wickets.
South Africa's T20 team: Heinrich Klaasen (captain), Otniel Bartmann, Donovan Ferreira, Reeza Hendricks, Patrik Kruger, George Linde, David Miller, Enrique Norquia, Nqaba Peter, Andile Simelane, Rassie van der Dussen, Tabraiz Shamsi, Matthew Bretzke, Kwena Mafaka, Ryan Rickelton.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : December 4, 2024, 7:37 PM IST
