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South Africa chose to field v India
Dhoni and Kohli will need to post as many runs as possible to give their bowlers a good chance to take India through © AFP
South Africa, knocked out of the tournament already, won the toss India most wanted to win, and asked India to bat first. India were desperate to chase so that they could know beforehand what they needed to do with the bat. To qualify for the semi-final India needed a big win to go past Pakistan's net run rate of +0.273. India began the match at -0.452.
In case India manage to score 160, they will need to beat South Africa by at least 32 runs. If they manage 140, they will need to keep South Africa to 109.
South Africa made the much-clamoured-for change, dropping the out of form Richard Levi for Faf du Plessis. They also brought back Albie Morkel to replace Wayne Parnell.
India 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 MS Dhoni (capt. & wk), 8 Irfan Pathan, 9 L Balaji, 10 R Ashwin, 11 Zaheer Khan.
South Africa 1 Hashim Amla, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Jacques Kallis, 4 JP Duminy, 5 AB de Villiers (capt & wk), 6 Farhaan Behardien, 7 Robin Peterson, 8 Albie Morkel, 9 Johan Botha, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Morne Morkel.
Dhoni and Kohli will need to post as many runs as possible to give their bowlers a good chance to take India through © AFP
South Africa, knocked out of the tournament already, won the toss India most wanted to win, and asked India to bat first. India were desperate to chase so that they could know beforehand what they needed to do with the bat. To qualify for the semi-final India needed a big win to go past Pakistan's net run rate of +0.273. India began the match at -0.452.
In case India manage to score 160, they will need to beat South Africa by at least 32 runs. If they manage 140, they will need to keep South Africa to 109.
South Africa made the much-clamoured-for change, dropping the out of form Richard Levi for Faf du Plessis. They also brought back Albie Morkel to replace Wayne Parnell.
India 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 MS Dhoni (capt. & wk), 8 Irfan Pathan, 9 L Balaji, 10 R Ashwin, 11 Zaheer Khan.
South Africa 1 Hashim Amla, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Jacques Kallis, 4 JP Duminy, 5 AB de Villiers (capt & wk), 6 Farhaan Behardien, 7 Robin Peterson, 8 Albie Morkel, 9 Johan Botha, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Morne Morkel.
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