England v South Africa: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup 2011 – preview
England will go up against South Africa in ICC World Cup match number 21 on Sunday, March 6, 2011, at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.
South Africans are considered as the hot favorites to lift the coveted trophy. The English team on the other hand will try to bounce back from a defeat that they suffered at the hands of Ireland on Wednesday, March 2.
Last time these two countries faced off at 2007 World Cup, it was the Proteas side that emerged victorious. They thrashed Poms by nine wickets in that game. However, in last one-day series between these two cricketing teams it
was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 who was the better of the two. They defeated Proteas 2-1.
Graeme Smith, captain South Africa cricket team, knows that his team will go into the match as favorites however he is not counting Poms out yet. He said, “The Ireland game would have hurt them a lot. It was terrific for the spirit
of the World Cup but they will be looking to bounce back.”
There are some injury scare for the English team with Kevin Pietersen, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 picking slight injuries however all these players are expected to be fit and will feature in the game.
English batsman, Jonathan Trott said, “It is very dangerous to think about how much cricket we have played in the last couple of months. I think the breaks in between games were enough for people to be able to recover and to perform.”
Team form
Form wise http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 3-2 at home and have won both of their opening fixtures quite convincingly. From last five matches they have won four.
Poms form recently has declined in ODI’s they lost an away series to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ireland-c751 in their second match of the tournament. They’ll look to bounce back from that defeat. 1992 finalists
have won one and lost three from last five games.
Key Players
Graeme Smith has gone 23 matches without a century, and he’ll be looking to score big and lead his team from the front. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 and Hashim Amla are in supreme form and once they get going they relinquish oppositions bowling
attack quickly. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Tahir has revolutionized Proteas bowling department, he is amongst leading wicket-takers of the tournament.
Opening partnership of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TT-Bresnan-c2711 and Graeme Swann
have been the pick of bowlers from English team.
South Africa (possible) 1 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DW-Steyn-c1409,
10 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Morkel-c73528, 11 Imran Tahir
England (possible) 1 Andrew Strauss (captain), 2 Kevin Pietersen, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465, 10 Graeme
Swann, 11 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Shahzad-c874
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