ABOUT THE MATCH
After a 2-1 victory in the T20I series, Australia will look at the ODI series against South Africa. And the Proteas will look to bounce back strongly against the mighty Aussies.
Australia and South Africa had played only one ODI each in this year – Australia had lost the ODI series against India whereas South Africa drew the series with 1-1.
PROBABLE PLAYING XI OF SOUTH AFRICA
Quinton de Kock (c&wk), Reeza Hendricks/Janneman Malan, Temba Bavuma, David Miller, Heinrich Klassen, JJ Smuts, Andile Phehlukwayo, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi/Keshav Maharaj
PROBABLE PLAYING XI OF AUSTRALIA
Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(wk), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood/Kane Richardson.
TEAM AND PLAYER PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: NZ VS IND
TOP ORDER ANALYSIS | SA VS AUS
- In top order analysis, Quinton de Kock from South Africa is pretty impressive with a total of 300 runs in his last 5 matches and he has an average strike rate of 116.8.
MIDDLE ORDER ANALYSIS| SA VS AUS
- In the middle order analysis, RR Rossouw is in the top with 311 runs in his last 5 matches and with an average strike rate of 98.6.
TOP AND MIDDLE ORDER ANALYSIS | SA VS AUS
- In the top and middle-order average runs – South Africa maintains their upper hand in both top-order runs with 253 runs and Middle-order with 128.33 runs.
BOWLING ANALYSIS | SA VS AUS
- Both teams look similar in the bowling analysis.
- South Africa with 5.25 and Australia with 4.75.
- In the economy rate, Australia is in the top with 6.63 whereas South Africa maintaining a 5.93 Economy rate.
TOP 4 BOWLERS ANALYSIS | SA VS AUS
- K Rabada has an impressive economy rate of 7.16 and Andile Phehlukwayo tops in wicket-taking with 8 wickets.
TOSS PREDICTION
This is somewhat tricky because at this venue, bating first and second teams have equal success rate. But we are expecting the toss winning team might choose to bowl first.
PITCH AND CONDITIONS
In the previous 11 ODIs which were played at this venue – In that six matches victory was celebrated by the first batting team – By this we can say that this pitch favors the batsman. We can expect a high-scoring affair considering the batting force of both sides.
MATCH PREVIEW
SOUTH AFRICA
- In the third T20I match, Australia registered its 97 runs victory over South Africa with a loss of 5 wickets.
- In that match Rassie van der Dussen and Heinrich Klaasen are the only batsman who had manged to score only 20+ runs.
- The bowling unit looked good. Every bowler had taken one wicket each.
AUSTRALIA
- David Warner and Aaron Finch had given a good start and by scoring 50+ runs and made a 100 runs partnership.
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Steven Smith, who came to bat at number five, had looked good with his 30 runs.
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Mitchell Starc and Ashton Agar had looked solid in the bowling department both of the bagged three wickets each.
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Whereas, Adam Zampa had picked two wickets.
PROBABLE PLAYING XI OF AUSTRALIA
Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(wk), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood/Kane Richardson.
HEAD TO HEAD
- Overall Matches – 100
- SOUTH AFRICA WON – 48
- AUSTRALIA WON – 48
- Draw – 3
- No- Result – 1
TEAM FORM IN LAST 5 MATCHES
SOUTH AFRICA – L NR W W W
AUSTRALIA – L L W L L
PROBABLE TOP PERFORMERS
SOUTH AFRICA – Quinton de Kock
AUSTRALIA – David Warner
BROADCAST DETAILS
- TV channels – Fox Sports, SuperSport, SABC, Sony Six, Willow TV, Sky Sports Cricket
- Live Streaming –
- Match Timings – 8:00 AM IST / 4:00 PM GMT
PROBABLE WINNING TEAM
Australia is favorites to open this series with a win and certainly, they have the batting and bowling quality in their team and they will look to live up to expectations.
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