Heinrich Klaasen: South Africa, the runner-up team of T20 World Cup 2024, has to go on a tour of Bangladesh. Where a 2 test match series is to be played between South Africa and Bangladesh. The Test series with Bangladesh is to start from October 21. For which the squads of both the teams have been announced.

Temba Bavuma will captain the Africa team in the Test series against Bangladesh. However, today we are talking about South Africa team's wicketkeeper batsman Heinrich Klaasen, who may have retired from Test cricket. But till now he has played many explosive innings in his cricket career.

Heinrich Klaasen scored a century in just 54 balls

South Africa team's star wicketkeeper batsman Heinrich Klaasen has played very few matches in Test cricket. But he has wreaked havoc with his bat in T20 and ODI formats. Let us tell you that last year the West Indies team had come on the tour of South Africa. During this period, an ODI series was played between the two teams.

In the ODI match against West Indies, Heinrich Klaasen scored his century in just 54 balls. In this match, Klaasen hit 15 fours and 5 sixes in just 61 balls and scored an inning of 119 runs. This innings of Klaasen is one of the best innings of ODI cricket.

Have retired from test format

Heinrich Klaasen has not been selected in the 2-Test series to be played between South Africa and Bangladesh. Because, Klaasen has retired from the Test format. He played only 4 tests in his career.

In which he has 104 runs in his name. Klaasen has announced his retirement from Test cricket to focus on white ball cricket. However, Klaasen's performance in ODIs and T20s has been excellent. Due to which Klaasen is the best white ball cricket player of current times.

This is what my career has been like so far

If we talk about Heinrich Klaasen's international career, apart from 4 Test matches, he has played 54 ODIs and 52 T20 matches for South Africa. Klaasen has scored 1723 runs in 50 innings of 54 ODI matches at an average of 40. In which he has scored 4 centuries and 6 half-centuries. At the same time, Klaasen has scored 912 runs in 47 innings in T20 at a strike rate of 142.