THE Proteas are set to start their ICC World Cup adventure against former champions Sri Lanka in India today (10.30am start SA time).
They will rely heavily on arguably the most in-form white-ball batter in the world at the moment, Heinrich Klaasen, to bring his ‘X factor’ game to the tournament.
Independent Media’s Zaahier Adams, who has covered the last two World Cups in Australia and New Zealand in 2015, and the UK in 2019, chatted exclusively to Klaasen in Delhi, with the flame-haired middle-order batter speaking with great insight about his batting transformation, AB de Villiers’s messages and why the Proteas’ “chokers” tag hurts him …
Test coach Shukri Conrad once referred to you as the “poor man’s MS Dhoni”. After your achievements of the last year, do you think that can be upgraded?
That quote does come up quite a lot recently. Obviously, it’s nice to be compared to a guy like Dhoni. He is very special, he
