{"id":28439,"date":"2025-11-22T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28439"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:04:15","slug":"nortje-returns-to-south-africa-t20-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28439","title":{"rendered":"Nortje returns to South Africa T20 squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa fast bowler Anrich Nortje has been named in their Twenty20 International squad for the five-match series against India next month, the first time he will have played for the side since the 2024 T20 World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has overcome a succession of injuries and returned to domestic action, proving his fitness for the series in India.<\/p>\n<p>His presence will in part make up for the injury absence of fast bowler Kagiso Rabada, who has been ruled out for four weeks with a rib problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know exactly what he (Nortje) brings so we\u2019re really looking forward to working with him,&#8221; South Africa coach Shukri Conrad said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course we&#8217;ll miss KG (Rabada) on this tour, but as we saw in the first test win over India, this group has depth and that is one of our primary goals as a squad, to develop a unit filled with players who can step up at any time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>South Africa also named a squad for the three-match one-day international series that will be played ahead of the T20s.<\/p>\n<p>It contains many of the same players who did duty on the recent tour of Pakistan, with experienced wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock selected for both the ODI and T20 squads.<\/p>\n<p>The ODI series will be played from November 30 to December 6, with the five T20s from December 9-19.<br \/>\nThe teams complete their test series with a second and final fixture that starts on Saturday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa fast bowler Anrich Nortje has been named in their Twenty20 International squad for the five-match series against India next month, the first time he will have played for the side since the 2024 T20 World Cup final. The 32-year-old has overcome a succession of injuries and returned to domestic action, proving his fitness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}