South Africa won the toss and chose to bat first against Bangladesh in the ICC Cricket World Cup match at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Bangladesh's World Cup journey took a massive nosedive after tasting three consecutive defeats following a victory in their opening game against Afghanistan. Now they will face off a team which has been in tremendous form with their batters coming all guns blazing in each and every match.
South Africa posted 428-5 against Sri Lanka, 311-7 against Australia, 207 all out against Netherlands and 399-7 against defending champions England in their last matches, which demonstrated the devastating form of their batters.
But the spot of bother was their defeat against Netherlands, a match in which they could not overhaul the target successfully after Netherlands piled up 245-8. The defeat at the hands of Netherlands was seen as one off incident but that was the only time in the tournament so far when they chased the target. So Bangladesh can take a note that they have shortcomings when they chase the target.
South Africa: 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Reeza Hendricks, 3 Rassie van der Dussen, 4 Aiden Markram (capt), 5 Heinrich Klaasen, 6 David Miller, 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Gerald Coetzee, 9 Keshav Maharaj, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Lizaad Williams
Bangladesh: 1 Tanzid Hasan, 2 Litton Das, 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 4 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 5 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 6 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 7 Mahmudullah, 8 Nasum Ahmed, 9 Hasan Mahmud, 10 Shoriful Islam, 11 Mustafizur Rahman