Captain axed in historic Proteas shake-up

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Dean Elgar was removed arsenic South Africa Test skipper and replaced by Temba Bavuma successful a enactment “restructure” nether caller manager Shukri Conrad, Cricket South Africa said.

The alteration volition travel into effect immediately, with Bavuma appointed to pb the squad successful a 2 Test location bid against West Indies starting aboriginal this month. Bavuma becomes the archetypal achromatic African skipper of South Africa's Test cricket team.

Opening batter Elgar volition stay disposable arsenic a subordinate for the series, CSA said.

“The telephone was intelligibly successful presumption of the caller absorption we are going arsenic a team, arsenic a system, and we each felt that the alteration successful the enactment was needed,” South Africa manager of cricket Enoch Nkwe said.

Bavuma was appointed South Africa's constricted overs skipper astatine the aforesaid clip that Elgar was fixed the Test captaincy successful March 2021.

Bavuma volition clasp the ODI captain's occupation but springiness up the Twenty20 role, with a caller T20 skipper to beryllium announced later.

Elgar was a fashionable prime arsenic Test skipper but the squad has mislaid back-to-back bid successful England and Australia nether his leadership.

Still, the determination was unexpected and portion of changes made by the recently appointed brace of Conrad and Nkwe.

CSA besides said that caput selector Victor Mpitsang had been removed from his role.

Bavuma brilliance sinks Warner

Batter Tony de Zorzi earned his archetypal call-up to the South Africa squad for the bid against West Indies, portion batter Aiden Markram and allrounder Senuran Muthusamy were recalled.

Batter Rassie van der Dussen, 1 of the Proteas' signifier players implicit the past fewer years, was amazingly near retired of the squad.

The archetypal Test starts astatine Centurion connected February 28.

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