Nandre Burger to Shubman Gill, wide, 147kph, full and swinging down leg, Gill misses the flick due to the swing. Klaasen dives full-length to his left to grab it
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Nandre Burger to Shubman Gill, FOUR, Shubman Gill gets going with a boundary! 149kph, Burger overpitches outside off, Gill moves across and batters through extra cover
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Nandre Burger to Shubman Gill, no run, full toss,
One slips for Shubman Gill as well
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Nandre Burger to Jaiswal, 1 run, off the mark with a single! 139kph, pitched up, Jaiswal opens his bat-face and drives hard to deep backward point
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Nandre Burger to Jaiswal, no run, full and swinging away outside off, Jaiswal chases it for a booming drive, beaten on the outside edge
Jaiswal and Shubman Gill are at the crease. Jaiswal is on strike. Nandre Burger will open the attack
The players walk out for the national anthems.
We've made a change to the Fantasy XI. Have a look before locking your teams...
Teams:
South Africa (Playing XI): Reeza Hendricks, Matthew Breetzke, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), David Miller, Donovan Ferreira, Andile Phehlukwayo, Keshav Maharaj, Lizaad Williams, Tabraiz Shamsi, Nandre Burger
Markram: We are gonna bowl first again. Fresh wicket, happy with how we chased the other night.
South Africa have won the toss and have opted to field
Pitch Report | Pommie Mbangwa: "77 metres straight, square boundaries 59 metres and 69 square. It does fly here. The story is about altitude. 12 sixes per game, that's the average here. It's quite dry. A bit of grass on that, it's been very hot. There'll be lots of runs on this, it looks pretty good. Expect a whole lot of runs and many sixes."
16:12 Local Time, 14:12 GMT, 19:42 IST: Live pictures show Gill and Jaiswal having a keen look at the 22-yard strip.
Gerald Coetzee and Marco Jansen have been released from the squad to prepare for the Test series. So, there could be a couple of debutants for the hosts. India, meanwhile, surprised a few with their team selection for the previous T20I as they omitted Ravi Bishnoi (Player of the Series against Australia) and Shreyas Iyer (top-scorer in the final T20I vs AUS). Will they continue to 'chop and change'? Your guess is as good as mine. We'll get the answers in a bit. Stick around, toss and team news coming up shortly...
16:00 Local Time, 14:00 GMT, 19:30 IST:
Preview by Telford Vice
At least it shouldn't rain at the Wanderers on Thursday. Considering the first match of this men's T20I series, at Kingsmead on Sunday, was lost in its entirety because of the weather and Tuesday's game at St George's Park was curtailed after the skies leaked again, that's no small thing.
Cricketminded fans of the electrical thunderstorms that grace the Highveld during South Africa's summers - and there are many - would concede that the match must take precedence over even the epic show the weather puts on in Johannesburg. With both teams playing only four more T20Is before the World Cup in the format in the Caribbean and the United States in June, they need all the gametime they can get.
Many of the players involved will turn out for a host of T20 franchises before the World Cup, but nothing polishes on-field and dressingroom dynamics like playing together. It's what turns collections of cricketers into teams who win tournaments.
On the admittedly scant evidence of the Tuesday, when South Africa won by five wickets with seven balls to spare, the home side are tightening those nuts and bolts better than the visitors. Neither side handed down a masterclass in a match that was messy from start to finish, but one of them found ways to win while the other lost their way.
Maybe India are still getting over last month's rude awakening at the ODI World Cup, which around 1.4-billion people seemed convinced they had some divine right to win. Until they didn't and Australia did, because sport doesn't work that way.
The South Africans haven't had to face that challenge: no-one expected them to come home with the World Cup. Indeed they performed better than anticipated to reach the semis.
That's not to read too much into the last game of a rubber India can no longer win. Besides, they have claimed only two of the 15 bilateral series they have played in South Africa across the formats. But one of those was a T20I series, in February 2018.
Gerald Coetzee, South Africa's most successful bowler on Tuesday with a haul of 3/32, has been taken out of the mix (see below) and Tabraiz Shamsi, whose Gqeberha economy rate of 4.50 was easily the best in both attacks, might be less effective on a Wanderers pitch.
So, theoretically, the Indians have a better chance of winning than on Tuesday. Also, the Wanderers is the only regularly used international ground in South Africa where India haven't lost more matches than they've won. They're level at 5-5 in Joburg.
But the South Africans know how to win at the Wanderers, where they have been victorious in 65.98% of their matches, regardless of format, in which a positive result has been reached. Only in Centurion are they more successful on that score, and just 0.29% more.
For all its reputation as a fast bowler's venue the Wanderers is a good place to bat, especially in white-ball cricket. So will Suryakumar Yadav celebrate retaining the top spot in the T20I batting rankings with an innings as bristling with aggression as his 36-ball 56 on Tuesday? Will Rinku Singh convert his unbeaten 68 off 39 in the same match into something bigger? Or will potential debutants Nandre Burger and Ottniel Baartman (again, see below) deny them by announcing themselves in style?
As always before a match, questions hang in the air like rain clouds. That's better for cricket, of course, than real rain clouds hanging in the air.
When: December 14, 2023; 5pm Local Time (8.30pm IST)
Where: The Wanderers, Johannesburg
What to expect: A willing pitch, a small, fast outfield, and little chance, according to the forecast, of rain.
Team news:
South Africa:
As per the squad announcement, Marco Jansen and Gerald Coetzee won't be available for this match to enable them to prepare for the coming Test series. That could mean debuts for Nandre Burger and Ottniel Baartman.
Possible XI: Reeza Hendricks, Matthew Breetzke, Aiden Markram (capt), Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Andile Phehlukwayo, Nandre Burger, Lizaad Williams, Tabraiz Shamsi, Ottniel Baartman
India:
Shubman Gill might make way for Ruturaj Gaikwad, who didn't play on Tuesday due to illness. Ravi Bishnoi looks set to crack the nod ahead of Kuldeep Yadav.
Possible XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar
What they said:
"Nobody knows who is going to the World Cup, and the way this new Proteas team is approaching things we don't look too far ahead. At the moment our focus is on the Wanderers." - Tabraiz Shamsi keeps his eye on the ball.
"It's always good to play in South Africa; it's quite challenging. We are well-prepared for these conditions, and we have actually batted well in a tough situation." - Tilak Varma has faith in India's ability to play out of their comfort zone.
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