The Champions Trophy is going to start from 19th February and before that South Africa has announced its squad. Temba Bavuma is the captain of the team and the big news is that two big match-winning players have managed to make a comeback in the team after a long time. Lungi Ngidi and Enrique Norkhia have returned to the team. Both these players were out of the team due to injury but now both Norkhia and Lungi are fit. The South African team looks very powerful because this team is full of all-rounders. The middle order of this team looks very packed.

South Africa team for Champions Trophy

Temba Bavuma, Tony De Georgi, Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Wian Mulder, Marco Janson, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Ryan Rickleton, Enrique Norkhia.

South Africa's schedule in Champions Trophy

In the Champions Trophy, South Africa will play three matches in the league round. Two of its matches will be held in Karachi and one match in Rawalpindi. South Africa's group is very difficult, because it also has teams from England and Australia.

• South Africa's first match will be against Afghanistan on 21 February.
• The match between Australia and South Africa will be held on 25 February.
• South Africa will face England on March 1.

South Africa became champion 27 years ago

South Africa had won the Champions Trophy title 27 years ago. This tournament started for the first time in 1998 and South Africa became the winner in it. This tournament was organized in Bangladesh and South Africa defeated West Indies in the final. In that match, West Indies team was able to score 245 runs and South Africa achieved the target in 47 overs.