Cricket South Africa names prelim squad for Champions Trophy

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

CRICKET SOUTH AFRICA has named its preliminary squad of 30 players for the ICC Champions Trophy tournament to be played in England and Wales in June.

The final squad of 15 will be named later this month.

Rilee Rossouw of the Chevrolet Knights is the only player in the group yet to represent the Proteas in any format while Henry Davids of the Nashua Titans and Chris Morris of the bizhub Highveld Lions have not played in an ODI before.

Proteas squad: AB de Villiers (Nashua Titans, capt), Kyle Abbott (Sunfoil Dolphins), Hashim Amla (Sunfoil Dolphins), Farhaan Behardien (Nashua Titans), Henry Davids (Nashua Titans), Quinton de Kock (bizhub Highveld Lions), Marchant de Lange (Nashua Titans), JP Duminy (Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras), Faf du Plessis (Nashua Titans), Dean Elgar (Chevrolet Knights), Imran Tahir (bizhub Highveld Lions), Colin Ingram (Chevrolet Warriors), Jacques Kallis (Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras), Rory Kleinveldt (Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras), Ryan McLaren (Chevrolet Knights), David Miller (Sunfoil Dolphins), Morne Morkel (Nashua Titans), Chris Morris (bizhub Highveld Lions), Justin Ontong (Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras), Robin Peterson (Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras), Wayne Parnell (Chevrolet Warriors), Aaron Phangiso (bizhub Highveld Lions), Vernon Philander (Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras), Rilee Rossouw (Chevrolet Knights), Graeme Smith (Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras), Dale Steyn (Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras), Rusty Theron (Chevrolet Warriors), Lonwabo Tsotsobe (Sunfoil Dolphins), Roelof van der Merwe (Nashua Titans), Vaughn van Jaarsveld (Sunfoil Dolphins)