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SA vs ENG Dream11 Team Prediction: The 01st T20I match of the series is set to resume after it was kept on hold as one member of A Africa’s squad was found Covid Positive. The match will be now played on 06th December at 01:30 PM.
This is a match between teams with contrasting journeys. After the debacle of 2015 World Cup, England have emerged as the white-ball champions while after making a stunning show in the 2015 World Cup, South Africa’s powers have depleted. But with the 2023 World Cup in mind, the Proteas will look to start afresh under the leadership of Q de Kock. England meanwhile will look to extend their dominance as they have already pocked the T20I series.
Fixture: South Africa vs England; South Africa vs England ODI series
When: 06 December, 01:30 PM IST
Venue: New Lands Capetown
Head to Head:
Total games: 60
SA: -29
ENG: – 27
NR: 4
Form Guide:
SA: WWWLW
ENG: LWLlW
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SA Team News: K Rabada is injured while Faf du Plessis is rested. Pite van Biljon, Bjorn Fortuin, and Reeza Hendricks have been released.
Playing combination: Q de Kock will open the innings. The management should pick J Malan as his opening partner while R Dussen will play the anchor role at 3. David Miller should be back in the team as the finisher while the team might go with the experience of A Phehlukwayo for the finisher’s role. K Maharaj will handle spin duties with T Shamsi and L Ngidii and N Nortje will form the pace attack.
SA Playing 11:
1. Quinton de Kock, 2 Janneman Malan, 3 Jon-Jon Smuts, 4 Rassie van der Dussen, 5 Kyle Verreynne, 6 David Miller, 7 Andile Phehlukwayo 8 Keshav Maharaj, 9 Lungi Ngidi, 10 Anrich Nortje, 11 Tabraiz Shamsi
ENG Team News:
Injuries, unavailability: J Archer, B Stokes and S Curran are rested.
Playing combination: England will go back to the combination of Roy and J Bairstow to open the innings while J Root will be back at the crucial place of number 3. E Morgan, J Buttler and S Billings will complete the middle order with M Ali as the all-rounder. M Wood and A Rashid will the be strike bowlers.
ENG Playing 11:
Jos Buttler (WK), Jonny Bairstow,, Jason Roy, Dawid Malan, Eoin Morgan (C), Ben Stokes, M Ali, T Curran, S Curran, M Wood and Adil Rashid
In SA vs ENG Dream11 prediction, SA will bank on de Kock to get the runs while in bowling the pace duo of A Nortje and L Ngidi will have a critical role to play. England will bank of J Bairstow and J Root to do the bulk of the run-scoring while J Buttler has been the finisher. M Wood will be the key bowler and A Rashid can emerge as the X factor.
SA vs ENG Dream11 Prediction:
Wicket-keepers: de Kock, J Buttler, J Bairstow
Batsmen: F du Plessis, J Roy, J Root
All-rounder: A Phehlukwayo
Bowlers: A Nortje, L Ngidi, M Wood, A Rashid
Captain and vice-captain:
J Bairstow is one of the best in the world as an opener. He has made 10 hundreds in just 59 games as an opener and has scored 2616 runs at an average of 50.30. He has made 184 runs in his last 3 ODI innings and his last ODI innings produced a score of 112 runs.
Q de Kock is South Africa’s best batsmen in this squad and he is very fine opening batsmen. He has made 5135 runs in 121 ODI innings at an average of 44.65. He also averages 44.65 and has a good strike rate of 94.84.
J Malan has had a great start to his ODI career and he has made 152 runs in 3 innings. He has one hundred on his name as he scored 129* against Australia earlier this year. His hunger for runs makes him the X Factor in this game.
J Root is a crucial player in this series as he didn’t make runs in the last ODI series and now has a point to prove. He averages 50.10 in ODI cricket and has scored 5962 runs at a strike-rate of 86.90 and has made 16 hundreds and 33 fifties. Watch out for him in this series as he hasn’t scored an ODI hundred in the last 12 innings. So a big score is round the corner.
England are the world champion in white-ball cricket and has a galaxy of stars in their squad while South Africa looks like a weaker team. So in the SA vs ENG Dream11 today match prediction, expect England to win the game.