Proteas captain Aiden Markram has been sidelined by Sunrisers Hyderabad and is in danger of entering the T20 World Cup in rusty form.
Aiden Markram plays a shot for Sunrisers Hyderabad during an IPL match. Picture: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP
If he is sidelined for the rest of the IPL, however, he will have gone five weeks without any game time when heSunrisers pay R5.7 million a year for Markram’s services, and they are unlikely to let him go. But if he’s not going to play again in the IPL he will be better off – and so will the Proteas – turning out for the national team in a three-match series against West Indies on the eve of the World Cup.
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