AHMEDABAD: Canada won the toss and elected to field first against South Africa in the ninth match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Monday.
Playing XIs
South Africa: Aiden Markrum (c), Quinton de Kock (w), Ryan Rickleton, Devald Previs, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Johnson, Corbin Bosch, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj and Lungi Nkiti.
Canada: Yuvraj Samra, Dilpreet Bajwa(c), Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Shreyas Mowwa(w), Harsh Thackeray, Saad Bin Zafar, Jaskaran Singh, Dilon Heilikar, Kaleem Sana and Ansh Patel.
head-to-head
The upcoming match will mark the first meeting between England and Nepal in the shortest format.
Form Guide
South Africa and Canada enter the tournament with contrasting momentum in their favour, with the former edition’s runners-up having two wins in their last five T20Is, while the associate nation is riding an unbeaten streak.
The Proteas hosted two-time champions West Indies in a three-match T20I series last month, which they won 2-1.
They played a five-match series against co-hosts and defending champions India in December, losing 3–1.
Canada, on the other hand, is fresh off a successful ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Americas regional final, through which they booked their place in the 20-team mega event.
South Africa: L, W, W, L, A (Most recent first)
Canada: W, W, W, W, W