Today at 3:30 a.m. ET, the South Africans will shoot for a sweep of Zimbabwe in their three-match ODI series which can be live streamed free by clicking this link. The match will take place at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo.
South Africa won't have the complete A-team on the pitch, confirming via press release that batsman Hashim Amla will not be playing due to a recent heavy workload. Rilee Rossouw, Mthokozisi Shezi and Marchant de Lange can expect to get some action after sitting out the first two ODIs.
South Africa didn't dominate in the second ODI, which they won by 61 runs, but captain AB de Villiers was pleased with the performance nonetheless. "It wasn't a bad batting performance considering that our top order didn't score a lot of runs," De Villiers said. "The fact that Parney (Parnell) and some of the middle order and tail chipped in a lot was pleasing to me; its shows that there is a lot of depth in the batting order.
The captain also believes the reserve players set to see action will be able to fill in capably. "They have played a lot of cricket of late and they are all in decent form," he said.
"I don't want to put too much pressure on them, I want to free them up and allow them to express their talent if they get an opportunity. There are still rankings at stake, so as a team we would like to win even though we might make a few changes."
STARTING SQUADS
South Africa
Quinton de Kock (w), Hashim Amla, Rilee Rossouw, Jean-Paul Duminy, AB de Villiers (c), Faf du Plessis, David Miller, Wayne Parnell, RyanMcLaren, Kyle Abbott, Imran Tahir, Marchant de Lange, AaronPhangiso, Mthokozisi Shezi
Zimbabwe
Elton Chigumbura (c), Richmond Mutumbami (w), Luke Jongwe, NevilleMadziva, Tafadzwa Kamungozi, Timycen Maruma, HamiltonMasakadza, Shingirai Masakadza, Malcolm Waller, Prosper Utseya, John Nyumbu, Tinashe Panyangara, Vusi Sibanda, Sikandar Raza, Brendan Taylor, Brian Vitori, Sean Williams
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