The third match of the Tri-Series which includes Nations like Australia, West Indies, and South Africa is between the two mighty giants of world cricket Australia and South Africa.
Both these teams have played one match of this tri-series tournament. Meanwhile, South Africa lost to West Indies on the back of solid performances from Sunil Narine and Kieron Pollard.
Tri Series 2016 Australia Vs South Africa 3rd ODI
On the Other side, Australia managed to clinch the serious win against West Indies in a closed tight match, where in-form batsman David Warner and Off Spinner Nathon Lyon scripted the win for Australia.
Australia ranked no 1 in the ICC rankings and South Africa ranked no 4 in the ICC rankings. Australi is the winner of World Cup 2015 and currently dominating the world cricket in recent times.
Australia is in good form and has momentum from their last win against West Indie. Steven Smith who is the Captain of the Australian team will look to carry the winning momentum into this match and will try to perform well at the personal level.
Whereas, AB Devilliers will look up to the individuals like Quinton De Cock, Hashim Amla, Faf Du Plessis to consolidate the batting lineup and will definitely find support from Imran Tahir in the bowling department.
The match between the South Africa and Australia will be played in Guyana at Providence Stadium. All the matches of this tri-series till now is organised at the same Providence Stadium.
Both the teams and their management staff will look to the previous matches and will try to assess the conditions.
Australia will highly depend on the key players like David Warner in the batting department and Adam Zampa, Nathan Lyon and comeback match Mitchell Starc will solidate the bowling unit for Australia.
Meanwhile, South Africa will depend heavily on their captain AB Devilliers , Hashim Amla, and Rilee Rossouw who is the highest scorer of their last match in the batting department.
South Africa will need solid performances especially from Imran Tahir, Morne Morkel and Aaron Phangisso.
AUSTRALIA TEAM (FROM)
Steven Smith, David Warner, Aaron Finch, Usman Khawaja, George Bailey, Scott Boland, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Josh Hazelwood, Travis Head, Nathan Lyon, Adam Zampa, Mathew Wade, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell.
SOUTH AFRICA TEAM (FROM)
AB De Villiers, Hashim Amla, Quinton De Cock, Faf Du Plessis, Rilee Rossouw, J P Duminy, Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, Wayne Parnell, Farhan Bearden, Kyle Abbot, Imran Tahir, Aaron Phangiso, Tabraiz Shamsi, Kagiso Rabbi da.
PREDICTION
Australia is looking favourite to win this match, mainly because of David Warner who is in sublime form and is looking unstoppable from Scoring runs.
Meanwhile, wounded South Africa will definitely look to return with the bang. And trust me don’t underestimate the South African team especially when they have MR 360 AB Devilliers.
While , we can only hope for a cracker of a game and will hope for a great battle contest between these two teams.
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