" Me being in the T20 club would've raised more brow. It's better that way that I'm not that"
Temba Bavuma, South Africa's past T20I and present Test and ODI captain, has acknowledged his target is long-format cricket after he was left out of the team's empirical T20 area to enjoy West Indies later this month.
After next enjoying a T20I in September 2023, missing out on the T20 World Cup squad and being released by Sunrisers Eastern Cape in the SA20, Bavuma was asked whether he had made a decision about his T20 potential. He did not give a clear answer but seemed to suggest he understood the ship had sailed.
" It's not a surprise that I'm not there, but me being in the T20 club would've raised more brow. It's better that way that I'm not that. In Guyana, where he will guide South Africa in the following Check against West Indies from tomorrow, Bavuma said," My focus is now on Test cricket and I'm going to try to play as best as I can in the format."
" There's also 50-over cricket that's coming in the next few months and the one thing that I can trust is that if I get going in Test and 50-over cricket, everything else will follow from there. It's not a shock that I'm not in the T20 club".
Bavuma's embrace of his non-selection for the T20I club comes after a long period of condemnation over his strike-rate in the least format, especially at the 2022 T20 World Cup. He captained South Africa at that event, where they were eliminated after battle to Netherlands, and scored 70 plays in five innings at a strike-rate of 17.50.
He was later replaced as the T20I's president by Aiden Markram, who later took over the Test team. Last month, Bavuma returned for T20I cricket after appearing in three games against Australia and allowing 35 works in three wickets, including two birds. He played one match for SEC at the SA20 earlier this year and made 33 certainly out and also played for the Lions in the CSA home T20 Challenge, where he scored 171 operates in 15 games at a strike-rate of 117.93, considered very low for a front T20 flour. That may have been what he was referring to when he said that if he was picked it had "raise more eyelashes".
Reeza Hendricks may start as a standard opener against West Indies, while Rob Walter, who did not play a sport at the 2022 T20 World Cup, did not score four consecutive goals in the lead-up.
In the long-term, if Quinton de Kock does no continue to play T20Is, South Africa may also look at Matthew Breetzke, who is not in the club for West Indies, as an opening solution. All that does n't mean Bavuma is not a white-ball player at all. He remains South Africa's ODI captain, led them to the semi-finals of the last World Cup and is expected to captain them at the future Champions Trophy.
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