Hosts South Africa have dropped captain Dane van Niekerk from their Women’s Twenty20 World Cup squad after the allrounder failed to fulfill health necessities.
Sune Luus will skipper the squad within the absence of van Niekerk, who additionally missed the 2022 50-overs World Cup after struggling a damaged ankle in January final yr.
“Dane was given an extensive opportunity to meet the minimum criteria, or the fitness benchmark for eligibility into the World Cup,” girls’s choice convener Clinton du Preez advised reporters on Tuesday.
“She recently did another fitness test and unfortunately did not meet the minimum criteria, and therefore she’s missed out.”
The group health requirements require a participant to run two kilometres in 9 minutes and 30 seconds, a mark which the 29-year-old couldn’t obtain, based on www.espncricinfo.com.
Fellow allrounder Luus is main South Africa within the ongoing house tri-series involving India and West Indies however van Niekerk was extensively anticipated to return for the T20 World Cup.
South Africa start their marketing campaign in opposition to Sri Lanka in Cape Town on February 10.
New Zealand, Bangladesh and reigning champions Australia are the opposite groups in Group A.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
