South Africa has announced its playing XI for the second Test against Zimbabwe (Photo- Cricket South Africa/X)
South Africa defeated Australia in the final of the World Test Championship 2025 season. After winning the final, South Africa is currently playing a two -match Test series against Zimbabwe. South Africa won by 328 runs in the first Test match played between these two teams. Now the second Test match is starting from July 6. Before this match, South Africa has announced its playing XI. In the second Test match to be played against Zimbabwe, two young players are making their Test debut for the South Africa cricket team.
Second Test starting from July 6
Vian Mulder will captain the protest team in the second Test. Veteran spinner Keshav Maharaj will not participate in this match due to injury and Vian Mulder has been given important responsibility in his place. Not only this, in the second Test, two players are going to make their Test debut. Prenelan Subrayan and Lesgo Senokwane are fully prepared to make a Test debut in the second Test. Talking about Pranal Subrian, he has scored 1595 runs in 77 first class matches while he has taken 242 wickets at an average of 27.94.
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Wiaan Mulder will lead the proteas men as captain in the second and final test match of the zimbabwean series.
A proud moment as prenelan subrayen and lesego Senokwane are set to make their test debuts.
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Talking about Senaqwane, he has scored 2654 runs in 51 first class matches while 14 wickets have been taken. Now both players will definitely want to leave their mark in international cricket too. Even though two players are making international debut, but despite this, the South Africa team looks very strong. She would also like to win the second Test.
3 players made their debut in the first Test
Earlier, in the first Test match played between these two teams, three players made their Test debut for South Africa. Dewald Bravis, Luan-Drie Pritorius and Kodi Yusuf performed amazing in their first Test and won the team. Luan-Dri Pretorius scored 153 runs in the first innings while Dewald Brevis contributed 51 runs. Talking about Kodi Yusuf, he took 6 wickets by combining both innings. Now everyone will have high expectations from these two new debutants.
South Africa team is ahead in Test series
Talking about the first match, South Africa declared their first innings for 418 runs for 9 wickets, in response to which host Zimbabwe was piled on 251 runs. After this, South Africa scored 369 runs in their second innings. Zimbabwe could not bat brilliantly even in the second innings and scored 208 runs. If Zimbabwe has to eliminate the series on par, then it is very important for him to win the second Test.
