SA vs AUS Dream11 Prediction Today | Fantasy Cricket Tips, Playing XI, Pitch Report – WTC Final

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This ICC World Test Championship final is the culmination of hard work over the past two years with the cycle being from 2023 to 2025.

South Africa finished as the top team in the league stage after winning the highest percentage of points that they competed for. They have won four consecutive Test series against West Indies, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

Australia will be coming in strong to this encounter as well. The baggy greens did not lose a Test series in this cycle and won four of their six Test series.

Team Stats

South Africa	Vs	Australia
10	Matches Played	10
70%	Win	70%
326	Average Score	353
615	Highest Score	654
160	Lowest Score	104

Head to Head Record

Teams	Matches Won
South Africa	5
Australia	5

Probable Playing XI

South Africa Expected Playing 11

Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton, Wiaan Mulder, Tristan Stubbs, Temba Bavuma (c), David Bedingham, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada

Australia Expected Playing 11

Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Josh Inglis, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins (c), Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon

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Injuries & Illnesses

The only injury issues lie in the South African camp. All of Anrich Nortje, Gerald Coetzee and Nandre Burger were unavailable for selection because of injury

Pitch Report & Weather Conditions

For the past 38 Test matches, the side batting first has won 55 percent of matches. The best bowling conditions are likely to be when the cloud cover is visible. The seamers will be the ones to take advantage of that. It should generally be a pitch where pace has the bigger say. The batters will need to cash in on days one to three with potentially better batting conditions on those days. The average first and second innings scores at the ground are both over 300.

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Wicketkeeper

Ryan Rickelton has made a powerful statement earlier on in his Test career with over 600 runs, a batting average over 50 and a high score of 259 in early January.

Australian wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey has more than 1500 Test runs. He made a score of over 150 against Sri Lanka this year too.

Batters

South African captain Temba Bavuma has added one Test century per year to his list since 2023. He hit 106 runs against Pakistan in this year’s New Year’s Test. Steve Smith’s Test batting average continues to be on a different planet. The right-handed top-order batter’s Test batting average currently sits at 56.75. Left-hander Usman Khawaja has almost 6000 Test runs in the bank. He hit his personal-best Test score of 232 in Galle this year.

All Rounders

Marco Jansen has a combination of three half-centuries and three five-wicket hauls in Tests. Corbin Bosch has only played a single Test for his country but starred with bat and ball. He hit an unbeaten 81 runs and took five wickets across two innings.

Bowlers

Kagiso Rabada will have all eyes glued to him when seeing the prospects of the Proteas in the match. The pace bowler has over 300 Test wickets with four ten-wicket hauls. Left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj is one of South Africa’s key weapons for the latter half of the Test.

Maharaj is two wickets away from 200 Test wickets. Nathan Lyon remains among the world’s top Test wicket-takers and is still actively climbing the charts. The off-spinner has 24 five-wicket hauls and five ten-wicket hauls.

Josh Hazlewood is arguably in the form of his life at the moment. The right-arm seamer had a major role to play for Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s IPL-winning campaign. For Tests in 2024, the Australian pacer took 35 wickets in seven matches.

SA vs AUS Captain and Vice-Captain Choices

Captain

Steve Smith largely doesn’t need many more adjectives to describe his brilliance in the five-day format. The exceptional Test batter has already romped to two Test centuries this year in his 309 runs.

Vice-Captain

Kagiso Rabada could largely determine the outcome of this match if he gets on a roll in overcast conditions. He needs one more wicket to bring up 50 Test wickets against Australia alone.

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SA vs AUS Team Expert Advice

You should be fully interested in the two bowling lineups, particularly in English conditions if the ball starts swinging. The Aussie trio of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc provide experienced options with a variety of pace, seam movement and a different angle. South Africa’s pace lineup of Kagiso Rabada, Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jansen and Corbin Bosch also bring a combination of pace, variety and swing.

The batters who have played a vast number of county cricket should be the most ofay with playing and batting in England. Cameron Green recently hit two centuries for Gloucestershire. David Bedingham has been another to mark his territory for Durham.

Notable Stats

Most Fantasy Points

Alex Carey is flying with 967 Dream11 fantasy points. Not long after Carey comes Steve Smith with 828 points of his own

Most Runs

The trio of Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith and Travis Head have been on another level of run-scoring this tournament. Khawaja has 1422 runs, Smith has 1324 runs and Head has 1177 runs

Most Wickets

Pat Cummins has the most wickets across the teams at 73 in this cycle of the ICC World Test Championship. Mitchell Starc is only one behind at 72.

Most 6s

David Bedingham has been a menace for the bowlers with 16 sixes. Travis Head has not been too far off either with his trademark boundary-hitting style. The Australian opener has 13 sixes.

Best strike rate

In a short stint of two innings, Australia’s Josh Inglis has a batting strike rate of 106.25. Corbin Bosch is another to only have a couple of Test innings where his strike rate has been high. He is on 86.17.

Best Economy Rate

Keshav Maharaj’s economy rate of 2.78 makes him the bowler across both lineups to be under three runs per over. Fellow spinner Nathan Lyon comes in at 3.08 runs per over.