SL vs SA LIVE – Temba Bavuma ruled out: Blow for South Africa, skipper Temba Bavuma ruled out, Keshav Maharaj to lead side ODIs, new captain to be named for T20Is: South Africa skipper Temba Bavuma has been ruled out the entire white ball series against Bangladesh after suffering a fracture in the right thumb during the first ODI on Thursday. In his absence, Keshav Maharaj will lead the Proteas side in the ODIs while for the T20I series, the skipper is yet to be decided.
Big blow for South Africa 🤕
Skipper Temba Bavuma has been ruled out of the remainder of the white-ball series against Sri Lanka with a fractured right thumb.
Keshav Maharaj will lead the side in ODIs; captain for T20I leg yet to be named. pic.twitter.com/7M3tKe0kVW
— ICC (@ICC) September 3, 2021
SL vs SA LIVE: Blow for South Africa, skipper Temba Bavuma ruled out, Keshav Maharaj to lead side ODIs, new captain to be named for T20Is
The Proteas skipper suffered the thumb injury (fracture) during the second innings of the first ODI when South African batsmen were chasing 301 runs put by Sri Lanka on the board.
SL vs SA: How did Temba Bavuma suffer thumb injury?
SL vs SA LIVE – Temba Bavuma ruled out: The unwanted incident happened in the 26th over where while trying to block the throw which was coming straight to Bavuma, he hit himself on the hand. The injury was was intense that he was flinging in pain and had to call the physio who used Icepack to give the immediate respite.
Soon, in the 28th over during the drinks, the right-handed batsman retired hurt himself on 38 runs and saw Rassie van der Dussen walking to the crease.
Bavuma even didn’t feature in the post-match presentation after South Africa lost the opening match by 14 runs as he had gone for the scans.
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