South Africa will tackle a struggling Pakistan within the twenty sixth match of the continued ICC ODI World Cup on the M.A. Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on Friday.
Forward of the conflict, the South African contingent hit the nets and toiled arduous. The batters, Rassie van der Dussen particularly, took on spinners holding the Chepuk pitch in thoughts, which has the tendency to assist spin bowlers.
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Skipper Temba Bavuma additionally hinted a possible inclusion of Tabraiz Shamsi within the squad to additional improve his aspect’s spin unit. This could be because of the truth that most of Pakistan’s top-order have discovered it troublesome to get going in opposition to the spinners. Babar Azam, Imam ul Haq and Mohammad Rizwan have more and more used sweeps and reverse sweeps in opposition to the slower bowlers, and the inclusion of Shamsi could be simply to take advantage of the identical.
Shamsi and Keshav Maharaj would need to extract probably the most out of the pitch and can tighten the screws in opposition to Pakistan, in an important sport for each the perimeters.
(with inputs from Nigamanth P)