South Africa's WTC Final Bound Players To Be Available For IPL 2025 Playoffs: Report

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Last Updated:May 15, 2025, 16:19 IST

A full of 8 South African players whose teams are inactive live successful the IPL 2025 playoffs contention are portion of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 last squad.

South Africa's WTC 2025 last bound players to stay disposable for full IPL 2025. (Picture Credit: Sportzpics)

All the 8 World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 last bound South African players are expected to stay disposable for their respective franchises arsenic agelong arsenic they are live successful the rubric race. According to a study successful the Sydney Morning Herald connected Thursday (May 15), the likes of Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen, among others, volition not instrumentality to South Africa by May 25 arsenic antecedently reported by aggregate media outlets successful India and are acceptable to diagnostic successful the playoffs provided their teams decorativeness successful the apical 4 astatine the extremity of the IPL 2025 league signifier connected May 27.

As per the SMH report, “Indian cricket has flexed its musculus to overrule South African plans for the World Test Championship final, cutting backmost mentation clip for the likes of Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen up of their showdown with Australia by insisting they enactment successful India until the extremity of the IPL."

Cricket South Africa connected Wednesday had said that their WTC 2025 last bound players should instrumentality from the IPL by May 25, arsenic the squad volition footwear disconnected WTC last preparations from May 26th, but aft a while, CSA Director of Cricket said that the squad volition resume grooming connected June 3.

“One happening we’ve made clear, and we are finalising it with the IPL and the BCCI, is that we are sticking to our archetypal program erstwhile it comes to WTC preparations, with May 26 being the latest for the Test guys to travel back," CSA’s manager of cricket Enoch Nkwe said overnight.

But a fewer hours later, Nkwe issued a clarification and acknowledged conversations going connected good supra his station, astatine enforcement and committee levels betwixt CSA, the BCCI and IPL franchises.

“Correction – the squad volition resume grooming for the crippled connected June 3rd," helium said. “The substance is being discussed higher up than me. At crushed level, we are focusing connected preparations for the WTC final."

The latest improvement means that isolated from Rabada and Jansen, the likes of Ryan Rickelton, Corbin Bosch, Tristan Stubbs, Lungi Ngidi, Aiden Markram and Gerald Coetzee volition diagnostic successful the past week of IPL 2025 and whitethorn get successful London lone a week earlier the commencement of the WTC final.

South Africa was scheduled to look Zimbabwe successful a warm-up fixture up of the WTC last against Australia astatine Lord’s, but present the dates for that lucifer are apt to beryllium revised.

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