South Africa vs. Sri Lanka T20 World Cup Match Preview: Kagiso Rabada, who had a lower limb soft tissue disease, left the Cricket earlier, but is still able to play in SA's World Cup opener.
Match information
Sri Lanka vs South Africa
Providence, 10.30am regional
Providence, 10.30am regional
Large picture: New type against South Africa
Sri Lanka and South Africa might be kind of sour, respectively. Since the start of 2023, South Africa have thrashed 3- 0 by West Indies. None of those outcomes were comparable.
Sri Lanka, which won the T20 World Cup ten years ago and was arguably the best T20 team on the planet prior to that, has never even managed to reach the semi-finals of a limited-overs prize since. In the same opposition, Matheeesha Pathirana took 13 innings at an market rate of 7.68, while Heinrich Klaasen took 479 operates at a strike price of 171. However, have their national team ' complete bowling and battanning schemes been combined?
Sri Lanka's ball is a bit assured. In Pathirana, Dilshan Madushanka and Dushmantha Chameera, they have three bowlers worthy of breaching 145kph, plus Nuwan Thushara, whose most new T20I vacation brought him images of 5 for 20.
Additionally, Sri Lanka has captain Wanindu Hasaranga and spinner Maheesh Theekshana ( who recently relished his love for the Test format only to be suspended for those games, dude! ). ).
Where Sri Lanka does lack, though, is on the huge- hitting front, and these South Africa may feel they have them covered, their best order having blasted their way through previous year's ODI World Cup. Quinton de Kock, Aiden Markram and Klaasen, in particular, will up themselves to get Sri Lanka's bowlers over.
But Sri Lanka have significant variety in their assault. And that used to be the essence of that wonderful Sri Lanka T20I part of 2014.
Kind guide
Sri Lanka WLWLW (Last five completed matches; most recent first)
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In the spotlight: Hasaranga and Rabada
Wanindu Hasaranga is more than just a spinner who bats a little bit and areas beautifully. He is attempting to persuade you at least of that. Hasaranga, who was once a heavily off-side flour, has improved his leg-side activity and evolved into what Sri Lanka and him and others hope will be more: the elite's "real allrounder" who can be determined solely by batting and bowling. Because of injuries that kept him out of the entire ODI World Cup last year, as well as out of the IPL, he has n't had the chance to dust these skills off. However, this is not the same person who won the 2022 T20 World Cup.
By then, Kagiso Rabada is used to all kinds of stress that most players in the world are uncomfortable with. You'd think he'll almost surely take his chances because he's the only Black American gamer in the South Africa squad this time, which is a pretty big deal but one he'll nearly certainly take for granted. The man must even recover some bowling magic, though. He took two wickets in his final five starts for the Punjab Kings this time. All away, he had a decent IPL, and left the contest earlier with injuries.
Ball and problems: Sunshine in New York
Weather looks wonderful, with peaks of mid- 20s°C and no projections for any rainfall interference. If the circumstances are anything to go by for the warm-up meet between India and Bangladesh. On the lose- in angle, the game seamed around and stopped for the bowlers. The slow-paced field, where the ball frequently sprang, was of more attention. Additionally, fielders wo n't want to play on any turf on it.
Team media
Pathirana bowled three overs in the process match against Ireland despite complaining about her quadriceps. He may be applicable against South Africa.
Sri Lanka ( possible ): 1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Kusal Mendis (wk ), 3 Kamindu Mendis, 4 Sadeera Samarawickrama, 5 Charith Asalanka, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Wanindu Hasaranga ( capt ), 8 Dasun Shanaka, 9 Maheesh Theekshana/Dilshan Madushanka, 10 Dushmantha Chameera, 11 Matheesha Pathirana
Rabada, who had a soft tissue infection in his lower limb, left the IPL first. But with fortune, he is accessible for South Africa's World Cup openers.
South Africa ( possible ): 1 Quinton de Kock (wk ), 2 Reeza Hendricks, 3 Aiden Markram ( capt ), 4 Heinrich Klaasen, 5 David Miller, 6 Tristan Stubbs, 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Keshav Maharaj, 9 Bjorn Fortuin, 10 Kagiso Rabada/Anrich Nortje, 11Ottneil Baartman
Stats that subject
Across all T20s since 2023, Klaasen clobbers spin at a strike price of 184, and hits innings just under once every seven balloons faced. Hasaranga has taken six innings for South Africa in four T20I matches at a rate of 6.25 for market. Sri Lanka have previously played Rabada properly- he has gone at an market rate of nine against them, and taken five innings in six games.
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