Saturday's ICC Cricket World Cup match between England and South Africa in Mumbai is a crucial match up with both sides looking to bounce back from shock defeats last time out.
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England
Defending champions England have 1 win and 2 defeats against their name. First time out they were thumped by New Zealand by 9 wickets before they put themselves on the board with a 137 run victory over Bangladesh.
England were overwhelming favourites for their match up with Afghanistan last Sunday but they crashed to a 69 run defeat. Batting first Afghanistan posted 284 (Adil Rashid 3/42) but a powerful England batting line up lost regular wickets and despite 66 from Harry Brook the writing was on the wall some way out as they were bowled out for just 215 in the 41st over.
Squads and Team News
This was how England lined up last time out
Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (c & wk), Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Reece Topley
Did not play: Gus Atkinson, Moeen Ali, David Willey, Ben Stokes
South Africa
After starting with two impressive wins the Proteas fluffed their lines in their third outing when they went down by 38 runs to the Netherlands on Tuesday. The match was reduced to 43 overs per side and the Netherlands recovered from 140/7 to post 245/8. Marco Jansen with 2/27 from 8 overs was the pick of the Proteas bowlers.
The Proteas lost 4 wickets in the first 12 overs and when David Miller went for a top score of 43 the writing was on the wall. Maharaj hit 40 down the order but South Africa were all out for 207 in the final over.
South Africa began their tournament against Sri Lanka and they came out on top by all of 102 runs after posting a mammoth total of 428/5 (Quinton de Kock (100), van der Dussen (108) and Markram 106 off just 54 balls). In their second outing they took on Australia and despite starting as underdogs they won by 134 runs. Quinton de Kock was in the runs again, top scoring with 109 in a 134 run victory.
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Squads and Team News
This was how the Proteas lined up last time out.
Quinton de Kock (wk), Temba Bavuma (c), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Gerald Coetzee
Did not play: Lizaad Williams, Reeza Hendricks, Andile Phehlukwayo, Tabraiz Shamsi
Head to Head
Overall the teams have met 69 times with England winning 30 to South Africa's 33 with 1 tie and 5 no results
The teams met in a 3 match series in South Africa in January this year and the Proteas won 2-1.
In CWC 2019 England beat South Africa by 104 runs.
The Betting
England are currently trading at around 8/11 to win the game and South Africa can be backed at around 11/10
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The Verdict
England have no margin for error and another defeat here could prove to be a terminal blow to their hopes of making the semi finals whilst the Proteas have to regroup after a dismal showing against the Dutch.
It's the first match of the tournament in Mumbai and gut feel is it has the potential to be a pretty high scoring game so I will go with the top individual batters total to be 107 runs or more.
Harry Brook gets the vote to score a 50 and I will also go with any Proteas bowler to be carted for 17 runs or more in a single over.
Bets: To Score a 50, Harry Brook at 18/10 with Betway
Top Batter Total over 106.5 at 17/20 with Betway
England Total In The Highest Scoring Over, over 16.5 at 17/20 with Betway
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