India and South Africa prepare for crucial Group 2 match at the SCG

(Cricket news) India will be looking to keep their win streak going as they take on South Africa. After winning the first 2 matches, India will be high on confidence. South Africa on the other hand need this win to significantly better their chances of qualification especially after their opening game against Zimbabwe was rained out. These two sides have played each other quite a few times over the last year and they know each other really well. The weather has played spoilsport a lot of times in this tournament but thankfully the forecast is a good one and we should get a full game without any interruptions.

India's possible playing XI:

Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh

Bench:

Harshal Patel, Rishabh Pant, Deepak Hooda, Yuzvendra Chahal

India have gone with the same XI for the first two games and it will be a surprise if they change things around for this game. The games against Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will be a good opportunity to switch things up a bit as India will most likely secure qualification by then. KL Rahul will be under a lot of pressure to score some runs as he has been disappointing in the tournament so far. 

South Africa possible playing XI:

Quinton de Kock (wk), Temba Bavuma (c), Rilee Rossouw, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Wayne Parnell, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi

Bench:

Marco Jansen, Reeza Hendricks, Lungi Ngidi, Heinrich Klaasen

South Africa have also stuck with the same playing XI and they are likely to do the same. Skipper Temba Bavuma hasn't been scoring runs since recovering from his injury and he really needs to get some runs in this game. Heinrich Klaasen has a brilliant record against India but it will be difficult for the Proteas to drop any one of their batters at this moment in time.

Also read: Can't drop Rahul on basis of two bad innings: Batting coach Vikram Rathour

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