The last time India played South Africa in an ODI was in the 2011 World Cup. None of players that participated in the World Cup are playing today in ICC Champions Trophy.
Likewise, South Africa are also missing some of their legendary names, like Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis.
As for the prospects of the match today for South Africa, one can look back and find South Africa to have the worst ODI record in England over the past six years, having won only two matches in 10. As for the Indians, they have won both their encounters against South Africa in the Champions Trophy, the last of which was in 2002. Of those who played that 2002 fixture, only Robin Peterson is in the current tournament's squads.
India with the two convincing win in the warm-up games will be high on confidence when they take on South Africa in the opening encounter.
The likely opposing teams for the match are:
India squad
MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, S Dhawan, RA Jadeja, KD Karthik†, V Kohli, B Kumar, A Mishra, IK Pathan, SK Raina, I Sharma, RG Sharma, M Vijay, R Vinay Kumar, UT Yadav
South Africa squad
AB de Villiers*†, HM Amla, F Behardien, JP Duminy, F du Plessis, CA Ingram, RK Kleinveldt, R McLaren, DA Miller, M Morkel, AN Petersen, RJ Peterson, AM Phangiso, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe
Umpires IJ Gould and BNJ Oxenford
The match is scheduled on Thursday 6 June (09:30 GMT) | at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.
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