South Africa will face Afghanistan on Friday at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Gujarat. The World Cup 2023 game between South Africa and Afghanistan will kick off at 2 PM. South Africa are coming into this game after losing the last outing to India. They lost the match by 243 runs. South Africa, in the last group stage game, will eye to end it on a winning note. The side are already sitting on the second spot with 12 points. Meanwhile, Afghanistan, who have shown amazing performance on the field with their killer bowling attack, will look to produce a clinical show.
Afghanistan lost their previous game to Australia, they had the Aussies in all kinds of trouble but then Glenn Maxwell completely turned the tables with an unbeaten knock of 201 runs to fire the Australian team into the semifinals with a 3-wicket win.
With little hope of reaching the semifinals, Afghanistan will look to end the tournament on a winning note whereas the Proteas look to fine-tune their preparations ahead of their semifinal against Australia.
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Check out South Africa vs Afghanistan Probable XIs:
SA Probable XI: Quinton de Kock (wk), Temba Bavuma (c), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi
AFG Probable XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil (wk), Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq
South Africa vs Afghanistan head to head record:
South Africa and Afghanistan have only faced off once before in ODI format, South won the game against the Afghans which was played on 15 June 2019 in the previous World Cup by 9 wickets.
South Africa vs Afghanistan Full Squad
SA Full Squad For ICC ODI World Cup 2023: Temba Bavuma (c), Gerald Coetzee, Quinton de Kock, Reeza Hendricks, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Andile Phehlukwayo, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Rassie van der Dussen, Lizaad Williams
AFG Full Squad For ICC ODI World Cup 2023: Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abdul Rahman, Naveen ul Haq
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