South Africa: T20 World Cup - South Africa Celebrates Its First Final - but Staying At the Top Will Take a Rethink of Junior Cricket

[The Conversation Africa] For the first time ever, South Africa has reached the finals of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, to be played on Saturday in Barbados. T20 (Twenty20) cricket is a shortened version of one-day cricket and has revolutionised the sport in the past 20 years. But, warns cricket scholar Sharhidd Taliep, if the country wants to keep reaching finals in the future, it must consider modifying the T20 format that's played by young, developing cricketers. Currently they play the same version of T20 as competitive adult