MATCH DETAILS:
Series: Australia tour of South Africa, 2020
Venue: The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Date: February 21, 2020
Time: 09:30 p.m. IST
MATCH PREVIEW:
Both teams will be playing their first bilateral T20I series after 2018/2019, where South Africa won the match 21 runs. Both teams are coming to this match after losing their previous bilateral series. South Africa lost their last T20I series against England at home recently while on the other hand, Australia lost their ODI series against India last month. Looking at the overall H2H stats in 19 T20I matches, Australia won 11, and rest goes into the account of South Africa.
GROUND/PITCH REPORT:
The average 1st and 2nd innings score at The Wanderers Stadium is around 169 and 143 respectively. Moreover, 28 matches are played this venue where the home side won 13, away side won 7 and neutral side won 8. Nevertheless, South Africa and Australia have played four T20I games at this venue, where South Africa won three and Australia won just one.
TOP PERFORMERS:
Here is the breakdown of the top performers at this venue in both batting and bowling department.
BATSMEN:
Faf du Plessis (South Africa): Du Plessis, who recently relinquished his captaincy from Test and T20I format has a excellent record at this venue. Where in four games, he smashed 242 runs with an average of 80.67, including a century and a half-century. Definitely, a player to watch out for this game.
David Miller (South Africa): Miller, who recently shown some
MATCH DETAILS:
Series: Australia tour of South Africa, 2020
Venue: The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Date: February 21, 2020
Time: 09:30 p.m. IST
MATCH PREVIEW:
Both teams will be playing their first bilateral T20I series after 2018/2019, where South Africa won the match 21 runs. Both teams are coming to this match after losing their previous bilateral series. South Africa lost their last T20I series against England at home recently while on the other hand, Australia lost their ODI series against India last month. Looking at the overall H2H stats in 19 T20I matches, Australia won 11, and rest goes into the account of South Africa.
GROUND/PITCH REPORT:
The average 1st and 2nd innings score at The Wanderers Stadium is around 169 and 143 respectively. Moreover, 28 matches are played this venue where the home side won 13, away side won 7 and neutral side won 8. Nevertheless, South Africa and Australia have played four T20I games at this venue, where South Africa won three and Australia won just one.
TOP PERFORMERS:
Here is the breakdown of the top performers at this venue in both batting and bowling department.
BATSMEN:
Faf du Plessis (South Africa): Du Plessis, who recently relinquished his captaincy from Test and T20I format has a excellent record at this venue. Where in four games, he smashed 242 runs with an average of 80.67, including a century and a half-century. Definitely, a player to watch out for this game.
David Miller (South Africa): Miller, who recently shown some indication of returning to the form nevertheless, he has played eight games at this venue, scoring 194 runs with an average of 38.80, with a solitary half-century. Dangerous T20 batsman, he can change the direction of the match single-handedly.
David Warner (Australia): Warner has a pretty good record against South Africa, plus he is the only batsman from the Australian side, who has a good record at this venue. In three games, Warner scored 115 runs with an average of 38.33 with a half-century to his name.
BOWLERS:
Andile Phehlukwayo (South Africa): Phehlukwayo, who picked five wickets in the recently concluded three-match T20I series against England, has an excellent record at this venue as well, wherein four matches, he struck eight wickets with an economy of 8.91. Nevertheless, he is also an all-rounder if he gets a chance to bat, he can also add some runs under his belt.
Dale Steyn (South Africa): Steyn, who managed to pick just a wicket in two matches in the recently concluded T20I series against England, also bowled an expensive spell. However, experience plays a key role in the T20 format, wherein six matches at this venue he picked six wickets with an economy of 7.81. He expected to play a key role in this match.
HEAD-TO-HEAD BREAKDOWN
When both teams faces head-to-head let's breakdown the best performers.
SOUTH AFRICA:
Quinton de Kock vs Australia: When coming to H2H, De Kock scored 274 runs with an average of 34.25, in nine matches against Australia. While doing so, he crossed 30+ scores on five occasions and got out for duck once. In the last four innings, he scored 22, 25, 44, and 7 runs respectively, with an average of 36.17.
Faf du Plessis vs Australia: Du Plessis, who has a brilliant record at this venue and against Australia as well wherein six matches, he scored 182 runs with an average of 36.40, including a half-century. Moreover, cracking down the innings into the last four, he scored 27, 4, 79 (this venue), and 40 respectively, with an average of 40.37.
Kagiso Rabada vs Australia: Rabada so far has played six T20I matches against Australia, where he picked six wickets with an economy of 8.10. Moreover, in the last four innings, he picked 0, 1, 2, and 2 with an economy of 7.77. He will lead the pace attack in this match.
AUSTRALIA:
David Warner vs South Africa: Like Du Plessis, Warner too has a good record at this venue and against South Africa as well wherein 11 matches, he scored 329 runs with an average of 29.91, including two half-centuries. Moreover, in the last three innings against Proteas, he scored 33, 77 (this venue), and 20 runs respectively, with an average of 27.91.
Aaron Finch vs South Africa: Finch's record against South Africa is not up to the mark; however, looking at his H2H, in eight matches he managed to score 184 runs with an average of 26.29. In the last three innings, he managed to get 7, 2, and 40 runs respectively.
Pat Cummins vs South Africa: Cummins' bowling career against the Proteas has been exceptional, where he picked eight wickets with an economy of just 5.79 in six matches, but it all came before 2015 since then he has not played against South Africa in 2016 and 2018/19 series. However, he expected to play a huge role in the bowling department along with Mitchell Starc.
