T20 World Cup: Clash of pace and batting firepower as India plays SA on Sunday

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Niraj Sharma
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India and South Africa cricket team at T20 World Cup 2022

New Delhi: The cricket fans are set to witness a clash between India's batting firepower and South African pace attack when the two teams meet in Perth the T20 World Cup on Sunday.

India lead Group 2 with two wins in as many games while South Africa are second with three points from two games including a no result against Zimbabwe.

Virat Kohli needs 28 runs to break Mahela Jayawardene's record for the most runs in T20 World Cups, after going past Chris Gayle in the previous match. He already has the most fifties in T20 World Cups, double Jayawardene's six and three more than his captain Rohit Sharma.

India have played the same XI in both their matches so far.

India (probable): 1 KL Rahul, 2 Rohit Sharma (capt), 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Axar Patel, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Mohammed Shami, 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11 Arshdeep Singh

South Africa (probable): 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Temba Bavuma, 3 Rilee Rossouw 4 Aiden Markram, 5 David Miller, 6 Tristan Stubbs 7 Wayne Parnell/Marco Jansen, 8 Keshav Maharaj, 9 Anrich Nortje 10 Lungi Ngidi, 11 Kagiso Rabada

The pitch at Perth is expected to experience quick with pace, bounce and early swing.