South Africa to hold spin bowling camp

Cricket South Africa will be holding a spin bowling camp next week at the Centre of Excellence in Pretoria ahead of upcoming tours of Bangladesh and India.

Batsmen JP Duminy, Temba Bavuma and Reeza Hendricks, and spinners Aaron Phangiso and Dane Piedt are the internationals who have been invited for the camp. A host of Under-19 players will also be involved as South Africa prepare to defend their junior World Cup title next year in Bangladesh.

Former internationals Nicky Boje and Paul Adams will be the spin-bowling coaches while HD Ackerman and Neil Johnson will be the batting ones.

"This annual camp has particular significance this year," said Vinnie Barnes, CSA High Performance manager. "If one looks at our international fixture list for the second half of the year, we have away Test Series in both Bangladesh and India while South Africa A will be playing both four-day unofficial Tests and a triangular one-day series in India.

"Spin bowling obviously plays an important part on the subcontinent so it is important that we prepare players properly, particularly those who have little or no experience of playing in that part of the world.

"The camp will also be attended by some of our less experienced batsmen who will be representing these various squads. Some of our (senior-team) batsmen have also asked to attend in preparation for the tour of Bangladesh.

"Our Under-19 squad struggled during their recent tour to Bangladesh where they will be defending their world title next year so we are also involving players at this level."

Spinners Aaron Phangiso, Ruben Claassen, Bjorn Fortuin, Tshepo Ntuli, Dane Piedt, George Linde, Shaun von Berg, Sean Whitehead, Nduduzo Mfoza, Tshepiso Ndwandwa, Lizo Makhosi

Batsmen Temba Bavuma, Rudi Second, Theunis de Bruyn, Omphile Ramela, Gihahn Cloete, JP Duminy, Reeza Hendricks, Rivaldo Moonsamy, Dean Foxcroft, Wiaan Mulder, Dayyaan Galiem