Temba Bavuma was on Friday named the primary black African captain of South Africa’s Test squad in what Cricket South Africa described as “part of a restructure within the leadership group of the national team”. Dean Elgar was axed as captain, though he stays a member of the squad which begins a collection in opposition to the West Indies on February 28. Chief selector Victor Mpitsang was one other casualty of the shake-up, with CSA stating he had been “released” from the function. Bavuma turned the primary black African to captain South Africa at cricket when he was named chief of the one-day worldwide and Twenty20 worldwide groups in March 2021.

At the identical time Elgar was named Test captain.

Elgar’s stint as captain began effectively with Test collection wins in opposition to West Indies, India and Bangladesh and a shared collection away in opposition to world champions New Zealand.

But they had been closely crushed of their two most up-to-date collection in England and Australia.

Bavuma, in the meantime, got here beneath criticism for his poor batting type in T20 internationals, notably within the T20 World Cup in Australia final 12 months.

According to Friday’s assertion, Bavuma will stay captain of the one-day crew however will relinquish his function within the T20 aspect.

The bulletins had been made by Enoch Nkwe, CSA’s director of cricket, who stated it had been determined to evaluate the choice system. Mpitsang was relieved of his job.

As an interim measure, the brand new nationwide crew coaches, Shukri Conrad (Test) and Rob Walter (restricted overs) will play a number one function in choice.

“Temba is a player that has vast captaincy experience both at domestic level and on the international stage,” stated Nkwe.

“We trust he will deliver on all our expectations and help carry the team forward after some excellent work by his predecessor Dean during the same period.

“At the identical time I wish to sincerely thank Dean for all his dedication to the function over the previous two years.

“He helped the team navigate through some stormy waters and put them in good position on the ICC World Test Championship table.”

Nkwe named a 15-man squad for the 2 Tests in opposition to West Indies.

Five gamers who performed within the dropping collection in Australia in December and January – batsmen Sarel Erwee, Rassie van der Dussen and Khaya Zondo, wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne and quick bowler Lungi Ngidi – have been dropped whereas Theunis de Bruyn has retired.

Uncapped Tony de Zorzi is prone to make his debut as a gap batsman, whereas Keegan Petersen and Ryan Rickelton return after lacking the tour of Australia due to damage.

Batsman Aiden Markram and all-rounder Wiaan Mulder are recalled as is spinning all-rounder Senuran Muthusamy whose solely two Tests had been in India in 2019.

Rickelton’s omission from the Australia tour led to criticism of Mpitsang, who stated he was omitted due to issues over an ankle damage regardless of the participant saying he was match – after which scoring closely in home cricket whereas the tour was going down.

South Africa squad:Temba Bavuma (capt), Gerald Coetzee, Tony de Zorzi, Dean Elgar, Simon Harmer, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen (wkt), Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, Wiaan Mulder, Senuran Muthusamy, Anrich Nortje, Keegan Petersen, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton.

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