TASMANIAN duo Clive Rose and Timm Van der Gugten will get to test themselves against the might of South Africa after being named in the Cricket Australia XI to face the tourists in a Twenty20 encounter at North Sydney Oval on Sunday, November 2.
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The match, being played during the first round of the Sheffield Shield, is the tourists' one and only warm-up for the three-match T20 series and five one-day internationals against Australia.
Left-arm orthodox spinner Rose has played just the three T20s with Melbourne Stars, taking one wicket at 85 and conceding 8.5 runs an over. He failed to take a wicket in four completed matches during the Tigers' domestic one-day cup campaign.
All-rounder Van der Gugten, the Dutch international has played 19 T20s, and it has been with the ball where he has shone in the shortest form of the game, taking 24 wickets at 16.50 while conceding 6.78 runs an over.
The 25-year-old is part of the Hobart Hurricanes Big Bash League squad.
The CA XI also features WA quick Joel Paris who terrorised the Tigers in the one-day cup and Victorian leg-spinner James Muirhead, who made his international T20 debut last summer.
Warriors spinner Ashton Turner will captain the side, with Tasmanian Troy Cooley, the national cricket centre head coach, coaching the side. That match will be part of a double-header, with the Southern Stars taking on the West Indies in a women's T20 match as part of the day.
The T20 series against South Africa, which will feature Tasmanian opener Ben Dunk and potentially Tigers teammate James Faulkner, as well as Hurricane Cam Boyce, begins at the Adelaide Oval on Wednesday, November 5.
CRICKET AUSTRALIA XI: Ashton Turner (c), James Bazley, Jake Doran, Sebastian Gotch, Ben McDermott, James Muirhead, Joel Paris, James Peirson, Clive Rose, Matthew Short, Kelvin Smith, Timm Van der Gugten.
