RSA vs AFG Match Preview

The Afghanistan team played their last warm-up one-day game during their visit to Zimbabwe in June. This game was played in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Afghan team batted first in this game and scored 272 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in their quota of 50 overs. The Zimbabwe Select 11 could just manage 204 all out during their reply. The entire Zimbabwe Select eleven was bowled out for a mediocre total of 204 runs from 44.4 overs. The Afghanistan team recorded a comprehensive win by a margin of 68 runs in this game.

During their innings, while batting first, Afghanistan lost an early wicket of Ibrahim Zadran. But most of their batters playing near the top of their batting order and in the middle and lower middle order contributed to the team cause. It allowed the Afghan outfit to reach a score of 272 runs. The top run-getter for Afghanistan was Rahmat Shah who scored 81 runs from 83 balls with 4 fours and 1 six. Several other batters chipped in with 30s and 40s. The Zimbabwean team never looked to be in contention for chasing the target successfully and was bowled out for 204 runs. Three bowlers from Afghanistan picked up 2 wickets each.

The last tour game played by South Africa was against the England Lions in July. This game was played in Taunton, England during the South African tour of England. South Africans batted first, to score 318 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in this game. The English Lions chased down this target easily in the end. They won the match by a margin of 6 wickets and reached the huge target with a whopping 77 balls to spare. England Lions achieved the target in 37.1 overs during their turn with the bat.

The South African inning was based on a hundred scored by Janneman Malan. He hit 103 runs from 116 balls with 11 boundaries and 2 sixes. But the real impetus to the South African innings was provided in the lower middle order by David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen. Miller hit a not-out 55 from 36 balls with 3 sixes and 2 fours. Klaasen hit 51 runs from 35 balls with 2 sixes and 4 fours. The England top order was in great nick in their reply. All the South African bowlers except Lungi Ngidi were taken to the cleaners.
 

Weather Report

We are likely to get cloudy weather during this game and you can expect showers and thunderstorms during the match. The temperatures on 29th September at the venue will be close to 29 degrees. You can also expect wind gusts in the region of 39 km/hr. 

Pitch Report

Just 4 one-day international matches have been played at the venue of Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram. This wicket does help the bowlers and most of the matches played here were dominated by spinners. Indians held the West Indies team to a paltry total of 104 runs in one of the games. We expect the trend to continue.

Notable stats

Quinton de Kock has a great average/strike rate combination for South Africa in ODIs.

Quinton de Kock has scored 6176 runs for South Africa from 145 matches with an average of 44.75 and a strike rate of 95.75.

Heinrich Klaasen has a great overall strike rate for South Africa.

Klaasen has scored 1323 runs so far for South Africa from 41 games with a strike rate of 111.64.

Team News

This is the first game for the two countries after arriving in India. So, full teams will be available for selection for this match.

RSA vs AFG Probable 11

RSA Playing 11

  • Temba Bavuma (C)
  • Quinton de Kock (Wk)
  • Reeza Hendricks
  • Aiden Markram
  • Rassie van der Dussen
  • David Miller
  • Heinrich Klaasen
  • Kagiso Rabada
  • Andile Phehlukwayo
  • Tabraiz Shamsi
  • Keshav Maharaj

AFG Playing 11

  • Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Wk)
  • Ibrahim Zadran
  • Rahmat Shah
  • Hashmatullah Shahidi (C)
  • Najibullah Zadran
  • Mohammad Nabi
  • Azmatullah Omarzai
  • Rashid Khan
  • Mujeeb Ur Rahman
  • Noor Ahmad
  • Abdul Rahman
This is not the official playing 11 for the match. This is a prediction of the expected playing 11 for each team based on the writers analysis.

Dream11 Prediction

Although it is the first game of the World Cup warm-up series, the South Africans are a better team man-to-man. The Afghanistan bowling attack consists of some wily spinners that might bamboozle the South Africans. But the South Africans have a better squad at least on paper. We will bet with South Africa to win the game.

Top Picks

H Klassen: Klaasen has been in terrific form this year with the bat. He has scored 1323 runs for South Africa from 41 games with an average of 41.34 and an excellent strike rate of 111.64.

 

AK Markram: Markram has scored 1665 runs for South Africans in one-day international games with a strike rate of 96.35. He has also picked up 16 wickets in this period.

 

Rashid Khan: The Afghani leg spinner Rashid Khan has picked up 172 wickets during his career of 94 one-day internationals for Afghanistan.

 

Rahmanullah Gurbaz: Gurbaz has played 28 one-day international games for Afghanistan and has scored 992 runs with 5 hundreds.
 

RSA vs AFG Dream11 Team 1

Keeper: Q de Kock , H Klaasen, R Gurbaz

Batters: T Bavuma, I Zadran

All-rounders: M Nabi, A Makram (C), M Jansen (VC)

Bowlers: K Rabada, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman

RSA vs AFG Dream11 Prediction - OCB Team Prediction