England vs South Africa Highlights Today, Saturday 6-11-2021. 39th Match, Group 1, ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, from Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
Morgan won the toss and decided to bowl first.
Eoin Morgan says: “the results here have suggested that chasing does help.” having experienced trying to defend with the dew in their last match against Sri Lanka. Wood is the man to come in for Tymal Mills, England otherwise unchanged.
Temba Bavuma says he would have bowled, too. “We’re going to have start well with the bat, it can be tough starting off here but we’ll have to assess and see what total we can put up.”
SA are unchanged. Bavuma suggests they will focus on getting a score before worrying about the NRR scenarios when bowling
England team: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Jonny Bairstow, 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Eoin Morgan (capt), 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Chris Jordan, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Mark Wood.
South Africa team: 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Reeza Hendricks, 3 Aiden Markram, 4 Temba Bavuma (capt), 5 Rassie van der Dussen, 6 David Miller, 7 Dwaine Pretorius, 8 Kagiso Rabada, 9 Keshav Maharaj, 10 Anrich Nortje, 11 Tabraiz Shamsi.
Form guide
(last five completed matches, most recent first)
England: WWWWW
South Africa: WWWLW
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 Points Table
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021/22 Complete Fixture
Match Timings: 14:00 GMT | 18:00 Local
Umpires – Chris Brown, Joel Wilson
TV Umpire – Paul Wilson
Match Referee – David Boon
Reserve Umpire – Rod Tucker
Match number – T20I no. 1400 – ICC T20 World Cup 2021 39th Match
