By IANS
Johannesburg : South African selectors have chosen to rest some of stalwarts of the Test and one-day squads in favour of younger players for September’s Twenty20 world championships.
Middle order mainstay Jacques Kallis, all-rounder Andrew Hall and fast bowlers Andre Nel and Charl Langeveldt were omitted from South Africa’s Twenty20 squad, while the selectors chose just one player with no international experience, left-hand batsman Gulam Bodi.
Seven members of the squad – Loots Bosman, Jean-Paul Duminy, Albie and Morne Morkel, Vernon Philander, Thandi Tshabalala and Johannes van der Wath – have only a handful of international appearances between them.
In the absence of Hall, Nel and Langeveldt, South Africa will field an inexperienced bowling attack that will rely heavily on Pollock and Makhaya Ntini, but van der Wath and Morkel both hit the deck hard and can generate a fair pace.
South Africa lack nothing in terms of big hitters, with Graeme Smith, Bosman, Mark Boucher, Herschelle Gibbs, Justin Kemp, Albie Morkel, Philander, Pollock and van der Wath all being powerful strikers of the ball.
The squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Gulam Bodi, Loots Bosman, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, Jean-Paul Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Justin Kemp, Albie Morkel, Mornè Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Vernon Philander, Shaun Pollock, Thandi Tshabalala and Johan van der Wath.