South Africa tour of Sri Lanka, 2021, Match-1st T20I and the match is going to be played between Sri Lanka & South Africa and the match is all set to take place at R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Preview

Hello and welcome to another match of the International series which is playing by Sri Lanka and South Africa and the match is all set to take off today at 8:00 PM IST.

The hosts won the 3-match ODI series by a margin of 2-1 and will be hoping to win the T20I series as well. On the other hand, the South African team will be eyeing a comeback in this series. R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo will host all three games of this T20I series as well.

Temba Bavuma will lead the South African side in this series while Dasun Shanaka will have the leadership responsibilities of the Lankan side. South Africa is placed 5^th on the ICC Men’s T20I rankings table whereas Sri Lanka is standing at the 9th spot. The two teams have squared off against each other 79 times previously in this format, where Sri Lanka won 32 games while the Proteas managed 45 wins.

Pitch Report – SL vs SA

The pitch assists both sides for batters and bowlers batters in the middle overs might gonna face some challenge from spinners also in the first inning opening batters might score more than any other batters while batting first seamers could get some wickets at the end of powerplay and the average score on this ground is 260-300 as per previous matches have done here.

Probable Playing XI – SL vs SA

Sri Lanka

• Kusal Perera
• Avishka Fernando
• Kamindu Mendis
• Dhananjaya de Silva
• Charith Asalanka
• Dasun Shanaka (c)
• Wanindu Hasaranga
• Chamika Karunaratne
• Dushmantha Chameera
• Praveen Jayawickrama
• Maheesh Theekshana

South Africa

• Quinton de Kock
• Aiden Markram
• Reeza Hendricks
• Rassie van der Dussen
• David Miller
• Dwaine Pretorius
• Keshav Maharaj
• Kagiso Rabada
• Bjorn Fortuin
• Sisanda Magala/Anrich Nortje
• Tabraiz Shamsi.

Top 8 Selection – SL vs SA

Dasun Shanaka

• 7MAT-115R-23.00BT.Avg-98.29SR

Pathum Nissanka

• 4MAT-81R-27.00BT.Avg-115.71SR

Quinton de Kock

• 7MAT-302R-43.14BT.Avg-144.49SR

Aiden Markram

• 8MAT-234R-33.43BT.Avg-148.10SR

Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva

• 10MAT-17W-5.23ECON-12.35SR

Dushmantha Chameera

• 9MAT-14W-6.18ECON-14.64SR

Tabraiz Shamsi

• 9MAT-15W-5.17ECON-14.00SR

George Linde

• 9MAT-10W-7.34ECON-17.39SR

Must Picks – SL vs SA

PLAYERS	STATS (T20I CAREER
Quinton de Kock	R-1605
Aiden Markram	R-357
Wanindu Hasaranga	R-192, W-33
Tabraiz Shamsi	W-45
Charith Asalanka	R-44

C & VC Seletion – SL vs SA

Safe Options

• A Markram
• W Hasaranga
• Q de Kock

Risky Options

• T Thamsi
• G Linde
• A Fernando

Suggested XI – SL vs SA

TEAM – 1

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