Where: Vidharbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
When: Sat Mar 12, 14:30 local, 09:00 GMT, 20:00 AEDT, 22:00 NZDT
ODI Head to Head: Played: 65, Wins: India 24, South Africa 39, No Result: 2
Last meeting: Jan 23, 2011 – South Africa 250-9 (46 ov) kick India 234 (40.2 ov) by 33 runs (D/L method)
World Cup Head to head: Played: 2, Wins: India 0, South Africa 2
World Cup Last meeting: May 15, 1999, India 253-5 (50 ov) mislaid to South Africa 254-6 (47.2 ov) by 4 wickets
Selection Table:
Likely India team: Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Ashish Nehra
The Nagpur wicket tends to suggest a pacers a bit of assistance as well as India will be prone to go in with 3 pacers, generally as Piyush Chawla is struggling as well as a meditative obviously seems to be of not personification a dual off-spinners, Harbhajan Singh as well as R Ashwin together.
Likely South Africa team: Hashim Amla, Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, Jean Paul Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Morne outpost Wyk, Robin Peterson,Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel,Lonwabo Tsotsobe
A detonate to Imran Tahir’s finger upon a left palm equates to he will skip out upon contrast his skills opposite a single of a many appropriate batting line-up. The deputy is expected to be Lonwabo Tsotsobe, a left-arm pacer who uneasy a Indians in a five-match array in Jan this year.
X-Factor:
India: Yuvraj Singh- His all-round capability has bailed India out upon multiform occasions recently.
South Africa: Dale Steyn – His gait as well as carry out will exam a teeming Indian batsmen.
Summary:
The compare which is many expected to confirm who tops Group B is a difficult a single to call even yet India has a value of personification during home.
While India have wobbled though confirmed their dominant run in a competition, South Africa looked a strongest until they collapsed to a startle better opposite England.
Both teams have in-form batsmen with India circumference out a Proteas since they bat deeper though Graeme Smith’s group is obviously some-more offset in a bowling dialect as well as there’s no more aged when it comes to fielding standards.
For India to win, they will goal Virender Sehwag fires whilst South Africa will be seeking to open with Robin Peterson as well as goal which he can have as most success as a alternative left-arm spinners have had opposite India as well as in particular, Sachin Tendulkar.
The toss is not expected to be really consequential as well as whilst South Africa competence cite to bat first, India have been expected to chase.
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