A new tour gets underway tomorrow, i.e., the South Africa tour of India, 2020!
The Proteas are coming off with a whitewash victory against the mighty Aussies. On the contrary, India are coming off with a whitewash loss by the Kiwis.
Where India, on one hand is looking for a win in the ODI format, South Africa would look forward to continue their winning streak.
No.1 Ranked ODI Batsman and No.1 Ranked ODI Bowler, Kohli and Bumrah are both off colors and are still trying their best to get back to their proper match-winning forms. On the other hand, Bhuvi and Pandya are back into the ODI squad after successfully getting healed from their injuries.
South Africa has a team filled with 11 batsmen (inclusive of 3 all rounders) in their squad of 15 and lack a quality bowling attack in the absence of Steyn, Rabada, Shamsi, Pretorius and Morris.
Pitch Report
The match is happening in the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, at Dharamsala.
The pitch is best-suited for pacers and both teams would like to capitalize on their respective bowling attacks restricting their oppositions to a modest total.
According to the last 5 ODIs on this ground, the Average Total score here is 208.
The teams chasing have won 75% of the matches here.
Whichever team wins the toss would opt to bowl undoubtedly.
Probable XIs
IND – Shubham Gill, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (C), Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (Wk), Manish Pandey, Haardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah
SA – Quinton De Kock (C&Wk), Temba Bavuma, Faf Du Plessis, Jon Jon Smuts, Heinrich Klaassen, David Miller, George Linde, Andile Phehlukwayo, Lungi Ngidi, Beuran Hendricks, Anrich Nortje
It’s difficult to predict what the exact batting lineup of SA would be with Malan, Verryene and Van Der Dussen also in the lineup, and they only have one spinner in their team, i.e., Jon Jon Smuts, so he’d be a surety to play at 3/4. 5 seamers to go with and batting till 8 should be the balance they’d opt for. India is always prone to Left Arm Seam and hence SA could give Beuran a chance to play here, over Sipamla.
On the other hand, Shubhman Gill can earn his maiden ODI cap since Prithvi Shaw wasn’t a huge success in the last ODI series and we saw Rahul playing at 4/5 so that can be something which the team continues, and bring Gill in place of Shaw as the opener, alongside Shikhar. 3 seamers and 2 spinners with batting till 10 is a good balance for them to go with.
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