Match particulars
USA vs South AfricaSuper Eight, North Sound, June 19, 10.30am native time
Large image – Can USA slay one other big?
It is Tremendous Eight time.
So USA, of their first T20 World Cup look, are actually A2, and can kickstart the Tremendous Eight stage towards South Africa. As each groups head over to North Sound in Antigua – USA aren’t fairly at dwelling anymore, be aware – they’d hope for 2 issues: higher batting circumstances and no rain.
South Africa have misplaced 11 wickets and are averaging a mere 9.63 within the powerplay this World Cup – the third-lowest behind Uganda and Papua New Guinea. And none of their top-order batters have a strike price of 100 within the first six overs.
Having stated that, South Africa performed three of their 4 video games in New York, the place batting circumstances have been removed from ultimate. And in hopefully higher circumstances in North Sound, they’ll hope the highest order can lastly flex their muscle groups.
The likes of Aaron Jones, Saurabh Netravalkar and Monank Patel have proven they belong to this stage of cricket. Now for them to provide it one other tilt and attempt to take one other Full Member down.
Saurabh Netravalkar despatched again Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in his first two overs towards India•AFP/Getty Pictures
Kind information
USA LWWLW (final 5 matches, most up-to-date first)South AfricaWWWWL
Within the highlight – Saurabh Netravalkar and Anrich Nortje
Crew information – Shamsi or Maharaj, or each?
USA’s final group recreation in Lauderhill was deserted with out a ball bowled. Earlier than that, they performed India, the place Monank Patel, their common captain, missed out due to a shoulder harm. He’s more likely to come again into the group changing Shayan Jahangir on the high. Relying on the circumstances, there’s additionally an opportunity USA might slot in left-arm spinner Nosthush Kenjige rather than quick bowler Shadley van Schalkwyk.
USA (possible): 1 Steven Taylor, 2 Monank Patel (capt), 3 Andries Gous (wk), 4 Nitish Kumar, 5 Aaron Jones, 6 Corey Anderson, 7 Harmeet Singh, 8 Shadley van Schalkwyk/Nosthush Kenjige, 9 Jasdeep Singh, 10 Saurabh Netravalkar, 11 Ali Khan
South Africa introduced in Tabraiz Shamsi for Keshav Maharaj of their final group recreation, and that might be the one choice they spend time on for this recreation. Whereas Shamsi obtained 4 wickets towards Nepal, Maharaj has carried out constantly.
South Africa (possible): 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Reeza Hendricks, 3 Aiden Markram (capt), 4 Tristan Stubbs, 5 Heinrich Klaasen, 6 David Miller, 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Tabraiz Shamsi/Keshav Maharaj, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Ottneil Baartman, 11 Anrich Nortje
Pitch and circumstances
It’s anticipated to be an overcast morning in North Sound, however there isn’t a rain forecast within the space on Wednesday. The groups batting second have received three out of 4 video games right here, with the floor good for batting. On the World Cup, Australia and England blew Namibia and Oman away respectively, however Oman hit up 150 towards Scotland, which was chased down in 13.1 overs, and the rain-hit England vs Namibia recreation had 206 runs in 20 overs.
Stats that matter
Nortje has picked up eight wickets within the center section, the second-highest after Adam Zampa’s 9
USA have the very best run price towards spin of all of the groups within the match – 11.04; Jones has been hanging at 263.33 towards spinners within the World Cup 2024 (80 off 30 balls)
South Africa have the second-best death-overs economic system on this match – 5.27
This would be the first T20I between the 2 sides
Quotes
“Nonetheless striving for that near good recreation. I believed our bowlers thus far all through the comp have been actually good for us and doubtlessly bailed us out of jail a few times. But it surely’s understandably so. Situations have been fairly robust for us with the bat. It is a contemporary begin for us. Particularly, in the event you communicate as a batting group, we get the prospect to get to new circumstances, hopefully barely extra batting pleasant for us, and an excellent time for us to begin peaking and discovering some kind transferring ahead within the competitors.”South Africa captain Aiden Markram hopes for higher batting circumstances in West Indies
“Myself, and Steven [Taylor], we’ve a number of help within the Caribbean So we’ll positively have some help tomorrow for positive because it pertains to the entire group. I believe a number of folks from USA really flew to the Caribbean to help us. So, it is actually good however that is no face for us. We simply wish to play exhausting cricket whatever the state of affairs.”Aaron Jones is anticipating good help for USA in Antigua
Ashish Pant is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo
