South Africa 's ODI squad is "quite far," from where they want to be at the home World Cup in 2027 but have time to get there, according to captain Temba Bavuma .

Despite completing a fifth successive bilateral series win over Australia, South Africa lost the final game by a record margin and still see themselves as a squad in transition.

"You're seeing new faces in the team and that's all part of us being in that exploration phase," Bavuma said after the third ODI in Mackay. "We're getting to understand guys, what roles that they can fulfil within the team and what they bring in from a personality point of view. We have time. There's two years left and we're definitely not close to where we want to be as a team."

Though South Africa only handed out two new caps in the Australia OD

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