🏏Champions Trophy 2025: Afghanistan vs South Africa, Match-3, Group B - Page 5

Pitch Report: The weather conditions promise a nice day of cricket, 31 degree Celsius with a nice wind blowing across the stadium. Talking about the boundary dimensions, to my right, it’s 67m and to my left is 62m and it’s 79m down the ground. Some greenery on this surface. There’s some colour, there are some cracks and then it’s hard. I didn’t expect grass but in this case, there might be some sideways movement. The cracks are in the 6-8m area. The South African seamers will be licking their lips looking at this. I will probably have a bowl first, there’s cracks, there’s grass, you want to take a couple of wickets early and put the pressure on the opposition. It may be a bowling surface, reckon Ian Bishop and Dale Steyn.

Prabhav: "Analyzing the conditions and squads... Afghanistan has a real chance of beating Australia... AGAIN!!" One game at a time, Prabhav...

Aashish Calla: "Rashid, Noor, Nabi and Kharote to tackle - The SA batters have a tough assignment at hand today, really tough, specially if they're chasing!"

Toss coming up real soon. In the meantime, do check out Firdose's interview with Rahmanullah Gurbaz, where among other things, he talks about how his brother breaking his bat turned him into a bat-breaker himself... but with a twist

Toss time. Tails is the call. Temba Bavuma has called right,

SA won toss and will bat first

Toss time--- SA won the toss and opted to bat first.

Temba Bavuma; We will have a bat first. Looks a bit different that what we have been experiencing here, not sure how will it react. Will try to post a competitive total on the board. I have a lot of confidence in our bowling attack, today we have gone for a lone spinner in Shamsi and the rest are seamers.

South Africa have won the toss and have opted to bat

Temba Bavuma; We will have a bat first. Looks a bit different that what we have been experiencing here, not sure how will it react. Will try to post a competitive total on the board. I have a lot of confidence in our bowling attack, today we have gone for a lone spinner in Shamsi and the rest

South Africa have won the toss and have opted to bat

South Africa won the toss and will BAT first