Preview: South Africa v New Zealand

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Where: Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
When: Friday Mar 25, 14:30 local, 08:30 GMT, 19:30 AEDT, 21:30 NZDT
ODI Head to Head: Played: 51 Wins: South Africa 30, New Zealand seventeen No Result: 4
Last meeting: Sep 24, 2009 – New Zealand 214 (47.5 ov) mislaid to South Africa 217-5 (41.1 ov) by 5 wickets
World Cup Head to head: Played: 5 Wins: South Africa 2, New Zealand 3
World Cup Last meeting: Apr 14, 2007, South Africa 193-7 (50 ov) mislaid to New Zealand 196-5 (48.2 ov) by 5 wickets.

Selection Table:
Likely South Africa team: Hashim Amla, Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Morne outpost Wyk, Johan Botha, Robin Peterson, Morne Morkel, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir.

Strike bowler Dale Steyn will lapse to a side after being complacent in a Proteas’ last organisation diversion opposite Bangladesh, with Lonwabo Tsotsobe to skip out notwithstanding a three-wicket transport in his usually Cup appearance. Fellow set upon bowler Morne Morkel will additionally return, entrance in for Wayne Parnell who additionally done his Cup entrance opposite a minnows.

Likely New Zealand team: Martin Guptill, Brendon McCullum, Jesse Ryder, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson, Scott Styris, James Franklin, Daniel Vettori, Jacob Oram, Tim Southee, Kyle Mills.

Skipper Daniel Vettori as well as Kyle Mills have been sloping to lapse from particular injuries for a cut-throat clash, with Nathan McCullum as well as Hamish Bennett a detrimental players expected to be left out.
X-Factor:
South Africa: Hashim Amla – ranked a world’s most appropriate one-day batsman, Amla has proven as most during a Cup with knocks of 113, 61, 51 as well as 42 putting him amongst a tip contest scorers, as well as he can infer his category with an additional grant in a initial possibility of asking during a impressive person stages.

New Zealand: Daniel Vettori – a personality of a Kiwi assault, Vettori can reason up his side with both bat as well as ball, as well as notwithstanding blank dual games with a knee injury, it will be how most a 32-year-old contributes upon Friday which will confirm either a Kiwis have a shot during upstaging their some-more fanciful rivals to strech a semi-finals. The combined inducement for Vettori will be which he is rumoured to call time upon his ODI captaincy, as well as if a rumours have been true, he will wish to finish his care power upon a high.

Summary: South Africa can shake up a ‘chokers’ tab which has been slapped upon their side given being suspended during a semi-final theatre in 1999 in England. It’s substantially an correct description, though, as a Proteas have been a powerhouse upon a cricket theatre but ever rapacious a World Cup.

South Africa have never even reached a last – as well as a same is loyal of their Kiwi opponents, definition there will be copiousness upon a line for these dual clever cricket nations in Mirpur.

The form-line says a Proteas should win this clash, as New Zealand’s pre-cup form was atrocious.

The Kiwis went a little approach to atoning for an 11-match losing strain in a months streamer up to a eventuality with 10-wicket victories over minnows Kenya as well as Zimbabwe, convincingly violence Pakistan. However, they were dejected by Australia as well as Sri Lanka, as well as unsuccessful to play out Canada.

South Africa’s organisation form was distant some-more consistent, as well as Graeme Smith’s side would have been dominant streamer to a impressive person stages save for a late fall opposite England.

The Proteas’ batting strength should see them gain upon a miss of compare aptness for Kiwi bowlers Vettori as well as Mills, as well as notwithstanding New Zealand’s large attack artillery of Oram, Styris as well as Franklin posing a threat, South Africa should go a little approach to jolt a under-achievers’ tab as well as book an additional semi-final spot.