The match on October 27 (2:00pm IST) will take place in Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium.
The Proteas team has four wins and one loss in five games, compared to the Men in Green’s two victories.
We examine the statistical review here.
Examining the record head-to-head
In 107 ODI matches, the two teams have faced off, with the Proteas team winning the majority of them.
South Africa leads the head-to-head record 51–30.
They lost one of their matches.
In the ODI World Cup, the Men in Green have faced South Africa with two victories and three losses.
Pakistan would be eager to get better on the record.
Below are the stadium’s statistics.
Chepauk has watched 38 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) where the team batting first has won 18, lost 19, and drawn one.
The first-inning average is 227.
Against Africa XI in 2007, Asia XI scored 337/7 while batting first. Here, this is the greatest team total.
SA has lost both of their prior ODI matches at this location, while Pakistan has won two and lost one.
This achievement is attainable by Quinton de Kock.
Quinton de Kock is the tournament’s top run scorer with 407 runs at 81.40.
He might become the first batsman from the Proteas to score 500 runs in an ODI World Cup.
The only other batsman with multiple hundreds in this tournament is David Warner of Australia, although de Kock has three tons (2).
6,583 ODI runs at 46.03 are owned by De Kock.
In 2023, Rizwan will have scored 1,000 ODI runs.
This year, Mohammad Rizwan has excelled in one-day international cricket. In this format, he has been Pakistan’s most productive hitter in 2023.
In 21 games, he has amassed 930 runs at a very respectable average of 66.42.
So, this year’s first Pakistani player to reach 1,000 runs in ODIs could be the wicketkeeper-batter.
Ahead of him (1,995) in ODI runs, he is almost at 2,000.
This is crucial for South Africa with Klaasen.
In 16 ODIs this year, Heinrich Klaasen has amassed 815 runs at a 58.21 average.
This year, Klaasen has amassed four ODI hundreds, three of which have come in under 62 balls.
The hitter with the highest strike rate in 2023—151.20—among those who have at least 800 ODI runs in a calendar year is Klaasen.
Among South African batsmen this season, only Aiden Markram (842) has amassed more runs in ODIs.
History can be written by Shaheen Afridi.
Pakistan’s astonishing pace With 49 ODI wickets under his belt, Shaheen Afridi has the potential to become the fastest bowler to 100 ODI wickets.
Mitchell Starc, who needed 52 games to reach milestone, might be surpassed by him.
Hasan Ali, Afridi’s experienced pacer and colleague, needs just one wicket to reach 100 in the format.
For Markram, 2,000 ODI runs are loaded.
Being only 70 runs short of 2,000 ODI runs, the form-holding Markram can potentially pull off a huge achievement.
With 60 games played, he now has 930 runs at 37.11.
Temba Bavuma, the team captain, can reach 1,500 ODI runs in the interim. For the accomplishment, he has to score 74 runs.