Welcome to Dawn.com’s live coverage of the ICC Cricket World Cup where readers will for the very first time get the opportunity to commentate on the match in real time. Here’s your chance to provide your analysis, set the field, predict the outcome of the match and have your say as New Zealand take on South Africa.

Toss: New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat

Teams:

New Zealand: MJ Guptill, BB McCullum, JD Ryder, LRPL Taylor, SB Styris, KS Williamson, NL McCullum, DL Vettori (Capt), JDP Oram, TG Southee, LJ Woodcock

South Africa: GC Smith (Capt), HM Amla, JH Kallis, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, F du Plessis, J Botha, RJ Peterson, M Morkel, DW Steyn, Imran Tahir

Umpires: Aleem Dar and RJ Tucker

TV umpire: HDPK Dharmasena

Match referee: RS Mahanama

Opinion

Editorial

Dark turn
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Dark turn

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Clearing the air
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Clearing the air

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Deplorable remarks
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Deplorable remarks

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Delayed bailout
Updated 10 Sep, 2024

Delayed bailout

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PTI protest
10 Sep, 2024

PTI protest

IT seems that despite the federal government’s best efforts to sabotage the event, the PTI managed to pull off a...
Superbug threat
Updated 10 Sep, 2024

Superbug threat

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