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