South African star players Quinton de Kock and Anrich Nortje are among the many key players omitted as Cricket South Africa introduced the contracted players squad for the 2024/25 season on Tuesday, March 26.
De Kock is presently with the Lucknow Super Giants for the Indian Premier League 2024, whereas Anrich Nortje has joined the Delhi Capitals squad not too long ago, following an damage hiatus.
Nortje has not performed for South Africa after struggling a stress fracture in September 2023 and needed to miss out on the ODI World Cup and the nation’s summer time season. Notably, he has made a return to the home circuit the place he performed two matches. The speedster is with DC now and is more likely to play quickly in IPL.
CSA’s director of cricket Enoch Nkwe mentioned that Nortje requested to place his deal with T20 cricket however will not be retiring from different types of the sport. “He requested he wants to focus on T20 cricket for the next few months. He is not retiring from any internationals. He will avail himself for T20 internationals. Towards the end of the year, he will look to play ODIs again,” he mentioned as quoted by EPNCricinfo. Nortje’s becoming a member of in IPL was delayed as a result of delivery of his first baby every week in the past.
Notably, de Kock has retired from ODIs as properly after the 50-over World Cup in India. He has mentioned that he would stay out there to play the T20s however was not a part of the T20I sequence towards India earlier within the 12 months. The Proteas star went to Australia to play the Big Bash League after which returned for the SA20. He was given day off the cricket discipline throughout the preliminary rounds of the CSA home T20 problem.
“He will be available for the T20 World Cup but he understands he needs to perform. He wants to earn his place,” Nkwe mentioned on de Kock.
CSA have some new entrants into the contracted squad as Nandre Burger and Tony de Zorzi have been included within the record. Burger has debuted throughout all codecs for South Africa and was a serious spotlight within the Test sequence towards India when he picked 11 wickets throughout the 2 Tests and was the joint-second highest wicket-taker. De Zorzi has performed Tests and ODIs.
