On a pitch that seemed to have a bit of early morning moisture, Graeme Smith chose to bat under some cloud cover. South Africa made it clear that they had their eye
firmly fixed on the knockouts, opting to rest their premier fast bowlers Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel. AB de Villiers continued to be saved for the next stage, but legspinner Imran Tahir came back after having recovered from his thumb injury, meaning that South Africa went in with three spinners, and six batsmen. Wayne Parnell and Lonwabo Tsotsobe make their World Cup debuts.In contrast, Bangladesh made just one change for this must-win encounter to the side that played against Ireland, offspinner Naeem Islam coming in for left-arm spinner Suhrawadi Shuvo. While South Africa have already made the quarter-finals, Bangladesh need to win to go through, as their net run-rate is way behind that of West Indies, with whom they are currently level on points.
Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Imrul Kayes, 3 Junaid Siddique, 4 Shahriar Nafees, 5 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 6 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 7 Mahmudullah, 8 Naeem Islam, 9 Abdur Razzak, 10 Shafiul Islam, 11 Rubel Hossain.
South Africa: 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Morne van Wyk (wk), 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 JP Duminy, 6 Faf du Plessis, 7 Johan Botha, 8 Robin Peterson, 9 Wayne Parnell, 10 Lonwabo Tsotsobe 11 Imran Tahir
