Toss South Africa chose to field vs West Indies<\/p>\n
South Africa<\/a> have decided to bowl first against West Indies<\/a> in their Group 1 contest<\/a> in the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup<\/a>, with Aiden Markram<\/a> believing a tacky, red-soil Ahmedabad pitch will even out as the match goes on.<\/p>\n These are the last two unbeaten teams at this World Cup, and only one 100% record will remain after today. A semi-final spot will not be guaranteed for the victors, though, but will go a long way towards securing their final-four spot with another couple of points and a boost to their net run-rates.<\/p>\n South Africa have gone in unchanged, sticking with the XI that took down India so comprehensively on this ground four days ago. West Indies, however, have opted for Roston Chase<\/a> over Akeal Hosein – a change Shai Hope<\/a> stressed was purely for tactical reasons, the offspinner clearly preferred to combat the three left-hand batters in the opposition top five. Hope also said he would have bowled first.<\/p>\n That this will be South Africa’s fourth match at the Narendra Modi Stadium is a clear advantage, one which Markram hoped would pay dividends. “We’ve been lucky to have played. a few games here now,” he said. “Each wicket has been quite different from the other. It’s another exciting opportunity for us.”<\/p>\n Conditions will also be different on this occasion. This is the first 3pm start at this ground, with temperatures reaching 35-degrees-centigrade.<\/p>\n South Africa: 1 Aiden Markram (capt), 2 Quinton de Kock (wk), 3 Ryan Rickelton, 4 Dewald Brevis, 5 David Miller, 6 Tristan Stubbs, 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Corbin Bosch, 9 Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, 11 Lungi Ngidi<\/p>\n West Indies: 1 Brandon King, 2 Shai Hope (capt & wk), 3 Shimron Hetmyer, 4 Rovman Powell, 5 Sherfane Rutherford, 6 Romario Shepherd, 7 Jason Holder, 8 Matthew Forde, 9 Roston Chase, 10 Gudakesh Motie, 11 Shamar Joseph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss South Africa chose to field vs West Indies South Africa have decided to bowl first against West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-505344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}