The former batting all-rounder JP Duminy has stepped down from his role as Proteas White-ball batting coach with immediate effect. In a short press release on Friday, CSA said Duminy had decided due to ‘personal reasons’.
“Duminy has stepped down from his role as the white-ball batting coach with immediate effect, following a mutual agreement with CSA based on personal reasons,” read a statement from Cricket South Africa.
Duminy had been in the position since Rob Walter took over as the white ball side’s head coach in February last year.
He accompanied the team to India in October, where they reached the semi final of the ODI World Cup with five batters. His last stint with team at the T20 World Cup.
Cricket South Africa said it would start a process to find a new batting coach to work with Walter, as the team gears up for the Champions Trophy which is scheduled to take place in February next year.
The Proteas’ next limited overs assignment will be against Pakistan on Tuesday. They will be T20I leg and ODI led which will serve as the final preparation ahead of the Champions Trophy.
Meanwhile, the future of the Champions Trophy will be discussed at yet another meeting of the ICC board on Saturday.
The announcement of the tournament’s schedule was delayed because after the Board of Control for Cricket in India said that country’s government would not give permission for the India team to travel to Pakistan.
However, Pakistan has requested India provides reasons for its decision, have stood firm that they wont’s be asking for the tournament to be moved.
This means that India would play their Champions Trophy matches in Dubai, but Pakistan have made conditions that they will not be playing ICC matches in India, when tournaments are held in that country in the next few years.
