A pressured change has jolted the South African cricket crew badly as its star pacer Anrich Nortje and Sisanda Magala have been dominated out of the upcoming ODI World Cup in India. Cricket South Africa (CSA) took to ‘X’ previously Twitter to make the announcement and in addition knowledgeable that the duo shall be changed by the pace-bowling allrounders Andile Phehlukwayo and Lizaad Williams.
Whereas Phehlukwayo has featured within the ODI World Cup for the Proteas earlier than when he was part of the crew through the 2019 version, for Williams it is going to be a first-ever expertise.
Who’s Lizaad Williams?
Lizaad Williams is a right-arm tempo bowling allrounder from South Africa.
Aged 29, Lizaad has already represented South Africa in all of the three codecs of the sport. The Vredenburg-born made his Take a look at debut towards Bangladesh on the Kingsmead, Durban in March 2022 and has performed two Assessments so far. His solitary ODI recreation got here towards Eire in Dublin (Malahide) on July 16, 2021.
The bowling allrounder has principally performed T20Is for the rainbow nation i.e. 9 matches after making his T20I debut versus Pakistan on April 10, 2021 on the Wanderers in Johannesburg. Within the home circuit he has performed for Joburg Tremendous Kings within the SA20 and in addition for Cape Cobras and Boland.
South Africa’s white-ball coach Rob Walters feels that Lizaad “affords nice abilities” and could have a possibility to shine on the world stage as soon as the World Cup will get underway on October 5 in India.
“This offers a possibility for Andile and Lizaad on the worldwide stage. Each gamers have been a part of our winter applications in addition to having represented South Africa within the latest white-ball tour towards Australia. They provide nice talent units and we’re excited to have them full the 15-player squad for this yr’s World Cup,” mentioned Walter.
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