For the first time ever, South Africa has reached the finals of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, to be played on Saturday in Barbados. T20 (Twenty20) cricket is a shortened version of one-day cricket and has revolutionised the sport in the past 20 years. But, warns cricket scholar Sharhidd Taliep, if the country wants to keep reaching finals, it will need to modify the T20 format that’s played by young cricketers. Currently they play the same version of T20 as competitive adult cricketers and this isn’t good for growing the all-round skills needed.
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South Africa have achieved a monumental milestone in reaching their first World Cup final in over 30 years in either the T20 or the one-day format. The country’s T20 ranking has never been good – it’s ranked fifth in the world while it’s ranked third in one-day internationals.
