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South Africa won the toss and choose to bat first against India's very first match in this world cup. this decision proved immediately wrong when both openers got out scoring less than 10 runs. Plessis and Dusan stayed for a while scoring around 50 runs partnership and both left leaving the team in dangerous position. Duminy could also only score 3 runs. Morris and Phehlukwayo stood over 80 runs partnership which supported the team a little when another loss faced by south African. these two scored 42 and 34 respectively and whole team got out on 227 runs. Rabada's 31 lead the lead to score over 200 runs. Chahal was phenomenal as he took 4 wickets. Kumar and Bumrah took 2 wickets each while remaining 1 wicket was taken by Yadav. India started out very slowly and players seemed struggling . Indian batsmen were given so many chances and south african were not impressive in the field at all. it could be becuase of the down morale of the team with recent defeats. D

South Africa won the toss at Oval in london and elected to bowl first. intention was to bowl bangladesh out earlier in the innings and win the match by maximum margin and with losing least amount of wickets. it did not go as planned for Proteas as both opening batsmen played really carefully. they were aiming to not lose a wicket carelessly. Tamim got out on 16 on the ball of Phehlukwayo. Suumya Sarkar stood firm on the wicket with Shakib on the other end of the wicket. they both stood quite well for some time when Sarkar lost his wicket to Morris on 42 of 30 balls. Mushfique was next batsman to come in. he stayed with Shakib on the wicket and both were ticking the scoreboard slowly. both scored 8 boundaries and Shakib also hit one short out of the park. This partnership of over 150 runs proved very well to the bengali tigers. Part 1 Highlights  Mithun came afterwards to bat in 36th over who was bowled out by Imran Tahir. he scored 21 off 21 balls. Mahmodullah 46 off 33 balls