Match Details
Date: June 3, 2024
Time : 8:00 PM IST
Venue : Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York
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Preview
Sri Lanka will play against South Africa in the Group D match of the T20 World Cup 2024 at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York. After winning the T20 World Cup for the first-time in 2014, Sri Lanka have gone down the ranks in the T20I format, but they still possess a few match winners who can turn over any opponent on their day. Meanwhile, after narrowly missing out on a semi-final spot in the last two editions of the T20 World Cup, South Africa will be looking to go all the way in the current edition of the tournament.
Pitch Report
The Nassau County International Cricket Stadium is a makeshift facility in New York, which hasn’t seen any T20 cricket in history. The drop-in pitches at this new venue have been brought from Adelaide Oval in Australia, where average first innings score is 174 in T20Is, and it could be a par score when Sri Lanka take on South Africa in their T20 World Cup opener.
Team Analysis
Sri Lanka
Wanindu Hasaranga is set to captain Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup after becoming the first bowler to pick up most wickets in the last two editions of the tournament. Some of the key players for Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup will be Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, Dasun Shanaka, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana, and Dilshan Madushanka.
Sri Lanka squad for T20 World Cup 2024
Wanindu Hasaranga (c), Charith Asalanka, Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, Kamindu Mendis, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Angelo Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Dhananjaya De Silva, Maheesh Theekshana, Dunith Wellalage, Dushmantha Chameera, Nuwan Thushara, Matheesha Pathirana, Dilshan Madushanka.
South Africa
Aiden Markram will be captaining South Africa in T20 World Cup 2024, but he is coming into the tournament on the back of a lacklustre season in the IPL with Sunrisers Hyderabad. The Proteas will be mainly reliant on the likes of Quinton de Kock, David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen, Tristan Stubbs, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, and Tabraiz Shamsi, to make a telling impact during their T20 World Cup 2024 campaign.
South Africa for T20 World Cup 2024
Aiden Markram (c), Ottneil Baartman, Gerald Coetzee, Quinton de Kock, Bjorn Fortuin, Reeza Hendricks, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, David Miller, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs
Match Prediction
Conclusion
Although Sri Lanka have a few good players in their lineup, they are still a bit behind South Africa in terms of experience of playing top-quality T20 cricket consistently, which could prove to be the ultimate difference maker in their upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 contest.
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