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The Proteas assemble in a huddle before their training session (Screengrab/Cricket South Africa) Heinrich Klaasen, the Proteas' stand-in T20 skipper, has dismissed suggestions that the squad for the three-match series against Pakistan is a second-string one. The Titans star noted that the team boasts various veterans at franchise level, whose nous compensate for a lack of overall international experience. Klaasen said there was no temptation to enlist some of the Test squad stars for the series once Australia withdrew from next month's series at home. Heinrich Klaasen migh...

When these two sides last met in February 2019, Pakistansat atop the ICC T20 rankings and were undefeated in 11 series. After winning the series 2-1, South Africa leapfrogged Australia and England to climb up to third, six points behind India and 17 behind their vanquished opponents. Fast forward to February 2021 and the situation for both sides couldn’t be more different. Pakistan’s shock defeat in South Africa was expected to be a mere bump in the road. However, since then, they have won just two T20 series from a possible seven (defeating Bangladesh and Zimbabwe) and tumbled down the...

Director of Cricket Graeme Smith explained that quarantine protocols are the reason why the Proteas have selected a 'water-downed' T20 side in Pakistan.

SA name second string team for T20I series against Pakistan Sports January 20, 2021 KARACHI: South Africa on Tuesday announced a second string team for next month’s three-match Twenty20 International series against Pakistan. The South Africans were forced to bring in their second tier cricketers in the squad in order to allow the top players, who are part of the squad that will play a two-Test series against Pakistan, to be back home in time to feature in the Tests against Australia. Heinrich Klaasen will lead South Africa’s T20 squad in the three-match series against Pakistan to ...

Heinrich Klaasen will captain the Proteas' T20 squad against Pakistan in a three-match series scheduled to take place in Lahore next mont