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 England take on South Africa and India play Ireland.

GROUP B:

Toss: England won the toss and elected to bat

Teams:

England: AJ Strauss (Capt), KP Pietersen, IJL Trott, IR Bell, RS Bopara, MJ Prior, MH Yardy, TT Bresnan, GP Swann, SCJ Broad, JM Anderson

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

Umpires: AM Saheba and SJA Taufel (Australia)

TV umpire: EAR de Silva (Sri Lanka)

Match referee: JJ Crowe (New Zealand)

GROUP B:

Toss: India won the toss and elected to field

Teams:

India: SR Tendulkar, V Sehwag, G Gambhir, V Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (Capt), YK Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, PP Chawla, Z Khan, MM Patel

Ireland: WTS Porterfield (Capt), PR Stirling, EC Joyce, NJ O'Brien, AR White, AR Cusack, KJ O'Brien, JF Mooney, DT Johnston, GH Dockrell, WB Rankin

Umpires: BF Bowden and RJ Tucker

TV umpire: M Erasmus

Match referee: RS Mahanama

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