South African wicketkeeper-batter Heinrich Klaasen, who just lately introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket earlier final month, has known as for the scrapping of bilateral ODI sequence between nations in a bid to declutter an already busy cricket calendar.
Particularly with the appearance of a number of world T20 leagues, cricketers barely get an low season and the 33-year-old Proteas known as for some modifications by the apex cricket council (ICC) within the 50-over format that may profit the gamers.
Echoing on the identical strains, Klaasen stated to Cricbuzz, “I believe the one change that I’ll make might be take [bilateral] one-day cricket away from worldwide cricket. Make it extra Check matches for groups that don’t play a whole lot of Check matches. Play extra T20 cricket, as a result of that’s what the individuals need to see. You’ll be able to preserve your one-day World Cups, and simply perhaps a month earlier than the one-day World Cup begins, you play 5 video games for each workforce, simply to get used to that format.”
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Why did Heinrich Klaasen retire immediately?
For the unversed, Klaasen introduced his white-ball retirement in June, after having already hung up his boots within the longest format final 12 months in a bid to concentrate on limited-overs cricket for each nation and franchise.
His determination concerning ODIs and T20Is got here after contract negotiations with Cricket South Africa (CSA) didn’t go as he had hoped for though he was within the plans for the 2026 T20 World Cup and the 2027 ODI World Cup.
Nonetheless, the proficient right-hander had loved an illustrious worldwide profession and completed as certainly one of South Africa’s strongest white-ball gamers. Whereas he performed simply 4 Assessments between 2019-2023, his ODI profession spanned 60 matches the place he amassed over 2,000 runs with a powerful common of practically 44. Amongst his standout performances was a panoramic knock of 174 in opposition to Australia in 2023, the second-highest rating ever recorded by a No. 5 batter in ODI historical past.
In T20Is, he featured in 58 video games, sustaining a outstanding strike price of 141.84. He remained an important a part of South Africa’s white-ball squads till his final worldwide look through the Champions Trophy 2025 semifinal in opposition to New Zealand.
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