South Africa will take on Australia in the sixth match of Women's T20 World Cup 2016 at Vidarbh Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur on Friday.
Australia and South Africa are clubbed with New Zealand, Ireland and Sri Lanka in Group A of 10-nation cricket tournament. They are playing their first Group A match of WWT20. Ireland will face New Zealand in another Group A match on Friday at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali. Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, the West Indies and hosts India are part of Group B.
Watch the live stream and videos of the match here, here and here, and get live scores here, here and here. The twenty-over match starts at 7:30 p.m. local time (2 p.m. GMT/9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT) on March 18.
The Aussie team, which recently lost a T20I series against India and New Zealand, is looking for a confident start in the global T20 event. Skipper Meg Lanning has said that her team is well-prepared to play at Nagpur's heavily spin-friendly pitch.
"We've certainly done a lot of work on playing spin as a batting group and also on how we can bowl it as well. There's no doubt spin is going to play a big part in this tournament but we've thought a lot about it and I'm sure we'll be ready to play well with bat and also use the weapons we've got with our bowlers as well," Lanning said in a pre-match interaction with media.
The Proteas team, which has never won a match against three-time defending champions Australia, is looking to register a win in their first ever ICC Women's World T20 game.
"Every game in the World Cup is a big game. We will take them all one match at a time. Our preparation going into the match against Australia has been thorough and in a T20 game, anything can happen, it will boil down to the team who apply their basics the best winning the game," South African coach Hilton Moreeng said.
The Probable Squads
Australia Women: Kristen Beams, Alex Blackwell, Nicola Carey, Lauren Cheatle, Sarah Coyte, Rene Farrell, Holly Ferling, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Meg Lanning, Beth Mooney, Erin Osborne, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt and Elyse Villani.
South Africa Women: Trisha Chetty, Moseline Daniels, Dinesha Devnarain, Mignon du Preez, Yolani Fourie, Shabnim Ismail, Marizanne Kapp, Ayabonga Khaka, Odine Kirsten, Masabatha Klaas, Marcia Letsoalo, Lizelle Lee, Sune Luus, Chloe Tryon and Dane van Niekerk.
