One-day baton is passed over to De Kock

QUINTON DE KOCK has been named as South Africa’s new one-day captain and will lead a new-look Proteas side in next month’s series against England.

De Kock has replaced 35-year-old Faf Du Plessis, who had previously been in charge in all three formats.

Du Plessis, who suggested after losing the third Test against England at Port Elizabeth on Monday that he was keen to pass on responsibility to the next generation, is not in the 15-man squad.

De Kock has been handed a tough first assignment against Eoin Morgan’s World Cup winners, with strike bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Dale Steyn also rested and five uncapped players included.

Lutho Sipamla, Sisanda Magala, Bjorn Fortuin, Janneman Malan and Kyle Verreynne are the new faces who will take part in the series, which begins in Cape Town on February 4 and continues in Durban and Johannesburg.

Graeme Smith, acting director of cricket at Cricket South Africa, said of De Kock: “He has a unique outlook and manner in which he goes about his business and is tactically very street smart.”

Four players – Lungi Ngidi, Magala, Tabraiz Shamsi and Jon Jon Smuts – will have to pass fitness tests.

Steyn recently retired from Test cricket but may have to wait until the T20 series to make his international return. South Africa squad: Q De Kock (capt, wkt), R Hendricks, T Bavuma,

R Van Der Dussen, D Miller, JJ Smuts, A Phehlukwayo, L Sipamla, L Ngidi, T Shamsi, S Magala, B Fortuin, B Hendricks, J Malan, K Verreynne.