AHMEDABAD: South Africa won the toss and elected to bat against India in the third Super Eight match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday.
Playing XIs
India: Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (WK), Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah and Varun Chakraborty.
South Africa: Aiden Markrum (catch), Quinton de Kock (vk), Ryan Rickleton, Devald Previs, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Marco Johnson, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Nkiti.
head-to-head
India and South Africa have faced each other 35 times in T20Is, and the Men in Blue hold the head-to-head record with 21 wins, while the Proteas have won 13.
In the T20 World Cup, the two teams have met seven times, with India leading 5-2.
Their last meeting in the tournament came in the final of the 2024 edition, which the Men in Blue won by seven runs.
Matches: 35
India: 23
South Africa: 13
No result: 1
Form Guide
India and South Africa enter the match with the desired momentum in their favour, as the defending champions have won their last five T20Is, while South Africa have only lost one.
India: W, W, W, W, W (Most recent first)
South Africa: W, W, W, W, L