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Ibrahim Zadran returns for Afghanan, Ryan Rickelton to start over Tony de Zorzi for South Africa

insidetrack IndiaFebruary 21, 2025

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AFG vs SA Champions Trophy 2025 Predicted Playing 11 Today Match: The dark horses Afghanan will take on South Africa in the first game of Group B at Karachi on Friday with the Afghan players looking to continue their fine ODI form against the Proteas, who they had beaten last September 2-1 at Sharjah.
The Temba Bavuma-led South Africa, however, will be keen to put their recent Tri-Series performance in he rearview mirror where they lost all their matches against Pakan and New Zealand. But that was because they were missing most of their Champions Trophy players who had SA20 league commitments. With all of their star players available now, the Proteas will start this match as hot favourites.
Ryan Rickelton over Tony de Zorzi
Even though de Zorzi scored a decent 55 off 51 against Pakan Shaheen in a warmup match, his record for the Proteas across formats doesn’t warrant a place in the lineup with better players available. Rickelton has played 6 ODIs for South Africa and scored 188 runs with a 50 which does not seem much but would be enough to pip de Zorzi, who just has 2 fifties for the Proteas in 18 matches across all formats.
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Ibrahim Zadran returns
Afghanan will heave a sigh of relief with the return of Ibrahim Zadran who was out for three months due to injury and the batter is expected to slot right in as the opener along with Rahmanullah Gurbaz. As an opening pair, these two average 48.84 with 1514 runs in 31 innings which gives Afghanan the blering start that they need.

Predicted XI:
Afghanan predicted XI: Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Farid Malik
South Africa predicted XI: Temba Bavuma (c), Ryan Rickelton, Aiden Markram, Rassie van der Dussen, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi

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