Cricket South Africa chose 18 players on Monday to play in five one-day international matches against Australia next month. These will be the team’s last games before the Cricket World Cup in India.
But not every player will go to India in October and November for the competition.
On September 5, two days before the first one-day international, a 15-person World Cup team will be chosen.
Before the one-day series, some of the team will try to do well in three Twenty20 internationals.
One of them is Dewald Brevis, who is 20 years old and will play his first international game during the T20 series.
He will also be in the one-day team. He is a hard-hitting batter and a leg-spin bowler.
Brevis has only played in four first-class games, but T20 teams in India, South Africa, the West Indies, and the United States have already signed him up. In a local T20 match between the Titans and the Knights last October, he scored 162 runs off of 57 balls.
Matthew Breetzke, who is 24, and Donovan Ferreira, who is 25, were also new to the T20 team, but they were not chosen for the one-day games.
Quinton de Kock, David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen, Anrich Nortje, and Kagiso Rabada, who are all top players, will not play in the T20 games, but they will in the one-day games.
Keshav Maharaj, a left-arm spinner, tore his left Achilles tendon in March during a Test match against the West Indies. He is expected to play cricket again during the T20 series.
Groups of people:
Aiden Markram (captain), Temba Bavuma, Matthew Breetzke, Dewald Brevis, Gerald Coetzee, Donovan Ferreira, Bjorn Fortuin, Reeza Hendricks, Marco Jansen, Sisanda Magala, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Lizaad Williams, Rassie van der Dussen, and Bjorn Fort
One-day internationals: Bavuma (captain), Brevis, Coetzee, Quinton de Kock (wkt), Fortuin, Hendricks, Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Maharaj, Markram, David Miller, Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Wayne Parnell, Kagiso Rabada, Shamsi, Stubbs, and Van der Dussen.
Setting up:
First T20I, August 30, Durban
September 1st, second T20I, Durban
Durban, September 3, third T20I
September 7: First One-Day International, Bloemfontein
The second ODI is on September 9 in Bloemfontein.
September 12, 3rd ODI, Potchefstroom
September 15, 4th ODI, Centurion
September 17, 5th ODI, Johannesburg