Walter has named an initial 12-player squad for South Africa's first match of the series against the BLACKCAPS on February 10 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

More players will be added after the final of the ongoing SA20 series. Walter explains his selection...

“Yes obviously they’ve been couple of restrictions in around the squad that is  selected to go, for me the guys that have been selected each and every one of them bring some form of expected to the team.

Theres been a lot of them that have been part of the SA series against Sri Lanka  guys perform domestically a like Gideon Peter someone who is obviously fairly new in the voices of the people but we've seen him in the SA20  some who got really pace so we wanted expose young guy with pace because we understand that in Pakistan that could be a x factor for to gain a competitive edge so yes i mean a host of different reasons that so of culminated to create  that squad.

About the players taking part in the S20 ahead of the opening match in the Champions Trophy  against a close book  Afghanistan, this is what Walter had to say,” Its a huge positive to be honest i think we experience in the 50 over series in Sharja  against Afghanistan where we faced the mystery for the very first time we could not have any footage we’ve never seen before. 
We took five wickets in the first game and one wicket after that so the ability to face those type of bowlers be exposed to them would be world class, world class players stay world class players doesn’t mean just you faced a couple of times that you can now  have the method to be better than them the reason, but what i do know it gives us a little bit of intel and it gives us conversation  as group about how we must play  against their spinners.”

--ChannelAfrica--