As of now, India maintain the highest place within the World Cup 2023 factors desk, having collected 14 factors by way of their efficiency within the first seven matches.
They’re set to face the Proteas, who’ve secured 12 factors from their seven video games. It is price noting that each India and South Africa have now secured their locations within the 2023 World Cup’s knockout phases.
“It should be a unique problem to the one the final time the 2 table-toppers met when India confronted New Zealand a number of weeks in the past and utterly swamped them. This one will probably be more durable as a result of South Africa has received an all-round facet similar to India,” stated Sunil Gavaskar to India In the present day.
He went on to say that South Africa’s batters are in kind whereas heaping reward on their terrific bowling assault. South Africa has gained six of their seven matches within the match, dropping solely in opposition to the Netherlands final month.
“They have batters who’re in unimaginable kind, maybe in higher kind than the Indian batters. They’ve additionally received a terrific new-ball assault and a spinner, Keshav Maharaj, who typically tends to be underestimated, has picked wickets recurrently,” Gavaskar added.
Regardless of being second on the factors desk, South Africa boasts a web run price of +2.290, whereas India have a web run price of +2.102. A win for both facet would give them an enormous increase to complete on the prime of the factors desk within the group stage of the 2023 World Cup.
(With IANS Inputs)
