The sponsors paid huge amounts of money to only get the best SA and foreign players to play in the series. One of their conditions were that teams should be selected on merit and performance only. Most of the Springboks T20 batsmen did not get bids to play in this series - including Van der Dussen, Bavuma and Elgar.
This will be another series that would be worth watching - all the younger players especially will show-cast their abilities and some will get foreign contracts that will remove them from the swamp SA cricket has become because of quota selections.