Recently, Cricket South Africa had announced that the national team players will have to return home from IPL on May 26 to prepare for the upcoming WTC Final. However, now the South African board has taken a U-turn from its decision. The board said that practice for the upcoming final match against Australia will start from June 3.
Cricket South Africa Revises Decision, WTC Final Preparations to Begin After IPL 2025 Finale
The Board of Control for Cricket in India confirmed on May 12 that IPL 2025 is resuming from May 17 and its final match will be played on June 3. The final match of the World Test Championship between South Africa and Australia is starting from June 11 at Lord’s. Cricket South Africa had earlier said that they have told the BCCI that all the players will return home on May 26. However, now Cricket South Africa itself has changed this date.
CSA’s Director of National Team and High Performance Enoch Nkwe said,
‘𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆. 𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝑰𝑷𝑳 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝑪𝑪𝑰 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒚 26. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒖𝒕𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒔.’
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