South Africa vs Scotland ICC World 2009

South Africa takes on Scotland 5th match (Group D) of the ICC World Twenty20 2009.
The match is Scheduled to begin at 12.30 GMT at Oval in London

Date: 07 Jun 2009

Group D

Scotland v South Africa

Oval, London

South Africa the top ranking team in the ODI ranking has the chance to lift the world cup for the first time. The consistency in the team is very good to prove themselves in any from of game. South African Captain Smith, De villers are the players to watch in this match.

Scotland on the other hand proved themselves to surprise New Zealand in the last match. Since it was only 7 overs match due to rain and scotland made the game very interesting for the spectators. From the very beginning batsmen constantly hitting fours and sixes to keep the scoreboard on top but failed to stop New Zealand to the victory because of one bad over. The player list for both the teams are

South Arica Squad

GC Smith*, J Botha, YA Abdulla, MV Boucher†, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, HH Gibbs, JH Kallis, JA Morkel, M Morkel, JL Ontong, WD Parnell, RJ Peterson, DW Steyn, RE van der Merwe

Scotland Squad

GM Hamilton*, RD Berrington, KJ Coetzer, GD Drummond, RM Haq, NFI McCallum, CS MacLeod, JD Nel, NS Poonia, GA Rogers, CJO Smith†, JH Stander, RR Watson, DF Watts, CM Wright