South Africa’s stand-in captain Aiden Markram suffered a hamstring damage throughout their final Champions Trophy 2025 league-stage match towards England on the Nationwide Stadium in Karachi on Saturday.
Main the staff within the absence of Temba Bavuma, who was dominated out of the sport on account of sickness, Markram went off the sector within the thirty first over because of the discomfort. “Two guys have had sickness across the camp, Tony (de Zorsi) and Temba miss out. Unlucky that they miss out however hopefully they may get better. *Tristan) Stubbs and Klaasen come into the facet. Stubbs has a great method, he’ll open the batting. Our final sport bought rained out, we had a couple of coaching classes, we’re prepared for this sport,” Markram had mentioned on the toss.
The 30-year-old Markram is not going to come out to bat until required with the extent of his damage nonetheless unknown. The dashing right-hander had slammed an unbeaten 52 as South Africa recorded an 106-run win over Afghanistan within the first match of the match in Karachi.
Heinrich Klaasen took over the management duties from Markram earlier than South Africa shot out England for 179 in 38.2 overs. England’s meagre complete meant that South Africa had secured their berth within the semi-finals alongside Australia from Group B, forward of Afghanistan. Each Australia and South Africa will reportedly journey to Dubai on Saturday night time with uncertainty over their knock-out venue in Lahore or the UAE with India qualifying for the semifinals of the match hosted by Pakistan.
