Up-and-coming Titans batting all-rounder Ruan de Swardt has been drafted by the Paarl Rocks to replace JP Duminy for the rest of the Mzansi Super League tournament.

Duminy, ruled out of the tournament due to a hamstring injury suffered in the lead-up to the Paarl Rocks’ opening game, has remained within the team setup in a mentorship role.

De Swardt, a former pupil of Afrikaans Hoër Seunskool (Affies) and star of TuksCricket is a skilful seam bowler and a left-handed batsman. He is part of the Emerging Squad that is due to assemble on Tuesday.

Paarl Rocks coach, Adrian Birrell, said De Swardt would give the team more options.

“With James Vince coming in to strengthen our top order, we needed another all-rounder to balance out the squad. Ruan has lots of potential and I’m confident he’ll add some real value in the middle-order and gives us more options in our bowling attack as well,” said Birrell.

De Swardt spend some time with the Paarl Rocks team last week and will join the squad now that final approval has been received from the MSL.

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