KINGSMEAD, DURBA- With today's first match T20 New Zealand will start the tour of Soouth Africa to play couple of T20s followed by 3 ODIs later.They are coming from the long tour of Zimbabwe.The Kiwis performance was decent there but was not of that level one was expecting from the runners-up of World Cup 2015.Proteas were also ordinary in their last tour in bangladesh.Although both the team were without their top batsman AB Devilliers and Kiwis were missing Brendon McCullum.Both the teams looking to give chance to some new players considering the T20 World Cup Next Year in India.But South Africa looks more settled in this case with the likes of Devillers,Faf du plesis,Amla and Morkel.The kewis are looking as a whole new team specially with their new Middle order of Grant Elliot,Colin Munro,James Neesham that gives huge responsibility to experienced skipper Williamson and opener Guptill.In Durban's green pitch bowlers will definately play role and it will be interesting to see what combination of fast bowlers both teams will come up with.The Hosts will have a chice of Rabada also who took a sensational Hattrick last month against Bangladesh.While Kiwis will be eyeing on Adam Milne who is quickest bowler in the tour to give them some early breaks.The weather is expected to be clear and there is no forecast for rain in Durban.
TEAM NEWS- The big boost for hosts will be return of AB de villers.While Amla is back to open in T20 and quinton de cock who is dropped after poor porfance in bangladesh will be replace by Morne van Wyk.aand all rounder JP Duminy will not be available for this T20.
For Kewis McCullum will still be not in the team along with some other senior players.In the spinning department they have added Doug Bracewell and they might not play Ish Sodhi who was poor in the Bangladesh. Here is the Probable Squads for first T20-
South Africa: 1 AB de Villiers (wk), 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Faf du Plessis (captain), 4 Rilee Rossouw, 5 David Miller, 6 Farhaan Behardien, 7 David Wiese, 8 Kyle Abbott, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Eddie Leie.
New Zealand: 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Kane Williamson (capt), 3 George Worker, 4 Grant Elliot, 5 Luke Ronchi (wk), 6 Colin Munro, 7 James Neesham, 8 Nathan McCullum, 9 Doug Bracewell, 10 Adam Milne, 11 Mitchell McClenaghan .
PREDICTION-I think inspite of having most seniors players out Kewis are still looking better as a unit and they have better quicks than the Hosts and with some gud batting from Guptill and Willamson they can create a upset here. NEW ZEALND TO WIN !
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TEAM NEWS- The big boost for hosts will be return of AB de villers.While Amla is back to open in T20 and quinton de cock who is dropped after poor porfance in bangladesh will be replace by Morne van Wyk.aand all rounder JP Duminy will not be available for this T20.
For Kewis McCullum will still be not in the team along with some other senior players.In the spinning department they have added Doug Bracewell and they might not play Ish Sodhi who was poor in the Bangladesh. Here is the Probable Squads for first T20-
South Africa: 1 AB de Villiers (wk), 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Faf du Plessis (captain), 4 Rilee Rossouw, 5 David Miller, 6 Farhaan Behardien, 7 David Wiese, 8 Kyle Abbott, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Eddie Leie.
New Zealand: 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Kane Williamson (capt), 3 George Worker, 4 Grant Elliot, 5 Luke Ronchi (wk), 6 Colin Munro, 7 James Neesham, 8 Nathan McCullum, 9 Doug Bracewell, 10 Adam Milne, 11 Mitchell McClenaghan .
PREDICTION-I think inspite of having most seniors players out Kewis are still looking better as a unit and they have better quicks than the Hosts and with some gud batting from Guptill and Willamson they can create a upset here. NEW ZEALND TO WIN !
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