Proteas vs England 1st T20 preview

The 1st T20 of the 3-match series between the Proteas and England is today. Both teams will look at this series as their final chance to try out some combinations as they prepare for the T20 World cup in October. Proteas have a 2-match T20 series against Ireland after this but for England, this is their last T20 series as the next time they play as T20 series is after the 15th of September deadline for World T20 squads to be announced. Proteas also don't have any T20 series after the Ireland series until after September 15th.

This series will be important for both teams as they will want to have their best combinations identified for the world T20 and test some fresh faces in the team to see if they fit into the plans for the World cup.

Rilee Rossouw who will make his Proteas return after 6 years, is one of the players to look out for as he has been in sublime form in T20 cricket leagues all over the world and scored 782 runs at an average of 46 and a strike rate of 181. Rossouw should open or bat no3 during the T20 series against England with Bavuma not available for this series due to injury. Tritan Stubbs who made his debut in India and Gerald Coetzee are the other players who will be looking forward to making most of the opportunity they get to stake a claim for a permanent place on the Proteas side.

England on the other hand will be without their first-choice seam bowlers who are still recovering from injuries. So players who are being given the opportunity in this series the likes of Topley, Gleeson and on the batting front Brook and Salt will want to make most of this opportunity to prove they can get the job done for England even without their first-choice players.

The first T20 starts Tonight at 6:30pm England time 7:30pm SA time.

Predicted 11s for Tonight

England: 1: Jason Roy, 2: Jos Buttler, 3: Dawid Malan, 4: Jonny Bairstow, 5: Liam Livingstone, 6: Harry Brook, 7: Moeen Ali, 8: Sam Curran, 9: David Willey, 10: Adil Rashid, 11: Reece Topley

Proteas: 1: Quinton de Kock 2: Rilee Rossouw, 3: Rassie Van der Dussen, 4: Aiden Markram, 5: David Miller, 6: Tristan Stubbs, 7 Wayne Parnell, 8: Gerald Coetzee, 9: Kagiso Rabada, 10: Anrich Nortje, 11: Tabraiz Shamsi

Writer: Ebrahim Yusuf Omar

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