Champions Trophy 2025: South Africa announced a strong team, these 2 stormy players returned after a long time

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The Champions Trophy is going to start from February 19 and before that South Africa has announced its squad. Temba Bavuma is the captain of the team and the big news is that two big match-winners have managed to return to the team after a long time. Lungi Ngidi and Enrique Norkhia have returned to the team. Both these players were out of the team due to injury but now both Norkhia and Lungi are fit. The South African team looks very strong because this team is full of all-rounders. The middle order of this team looks very packed.

Temba Bavuma, Tony de Giorgi, Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Tabrez Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Ryan Rickleton, Enrique Norkhia.

South Africa's schedule for the Champions Trophy

In the Champions Trophy, South Africa will play three matches in the league round. Two of its matches will be played in Karachi and one in Rawalpindi. South Africa's group is very difficult because it also has teams from England and Australia.

  • South Africa's first match will be against Afghanistan on 21 February.
  • The match between Australia and South Africa will be held on 25 February.
  • South Africa will face England on March 1.

South Africa became champion 27 years ago.

South Africa won the Champions Trophy title 27 years ago. This tournament started for the first time in 1998 and South Africa became the winner. This tournament was organized in Bangladesh and South Africa defeated West Indies in the final. In that match, West Indies team was able to score 245 runs and South Africa achieved the target in 47 overs. South Africa lost the opportunity to become champion four times after winning this title of Champions Trophy. This team has lost four times in the semi-finals. Now South African fans will hope that this team ends its title drought.