SL vs SA Dream11 Team Prediction | ICC World Cup 2019 35th Match, Squads, Fantasy Team News

SL vs SA Dream11 35th Match Prediction | Sri Lanka vs South Africa ICC World Cup 2019

The ICC Cricket World Cup is into its second last week and still, there are three semi-final spots up for grabs. Australia is the only team so far who have made it to the semi-finals, whereas, India and New Zealand are almost there.

Now, it is time for the 35th match to get underway which will be played at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street between Sri Lanka and South Africa. This would be the first instance for this ground to make its appearance in this World Cup.

The Proteas have nothing to lose as they are already out of the contention to make it to the semi-finals. Meanwhile, after a comprehensive win over the hosts England, Sri Lanka have definitely kept their hopes alive.

Best Performance in the World Cup:

South Africa: Semi-finalists in 1992, 1999, 2007 and 2015 edition.

Sri Lanka: Champions in 1996 edition.

Match Schedule

Sri Lanka vs South Africa

Venue: Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Time: June 28, 03:00 PM

Head to Head in ODIs

Matches: 76

Sri Lanka won: 31

South Africa won: 43

Tied: 00

No result: 02

The conditions at the Chester-le-Street

This would be the first game of World Cup 2019 at this venue. The behavior of the surface generally assists the batsmen and they tend to score runs at a heavy rate. This could well be a high scoring game.

Matches: 17

Won batting first: 05 (36%)

Won batting second: 09 (64%)

No Result: 03

Highest Total: 314/4 (44.4 Ov) by ENG vs AUS, June 21, 2018

Lowest Total: 99/10 (26.1 Ov) by ENG vs SL, May 25, 2014

300+ Totals: 03

400+ Totals: 00

SL vs SA Team News

South Africa have nothing to lose now, which means they can opt for several changes in their line-up.
JP Duminy and Dwaine Pretorius are warming the bench for some time now, they could get a go here.
The duo can replace David Miller and Aiden Markram who haven’t done great so far.
One of Lungi Ngidi or Kagiso Rabada could be rested for this game as both have looked exhausted. Beurean Hendricks is the ample replacement in such case.
Sri Lanka managed to defeat a strong English side in the last game. With confidence by their side, they are least expected to tinker with their eleven. However, illness to Nuwan Pradeep might keep him out of this match, Suranga Lakmal is likely to replace him.
Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews who were struggling from quite a few matches finally got some runs under his belt against England and is expected to keep his place in the eleven.

SL vs SA Playing XI

Sri Lanka: Thisara Perera, Jeevan Mendis, Avishka Fernando, Kusal Perera, Isuru Udana, Dhananjaya de Silva, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Dimuth Karunaratne, Nuwan Pradeep, Kusal Mendis.

South Africa: Quinton de Kock, Hashim Amla, David Miller/Dwaine Pretorius, Faf du Plessis, Rassie van der Dussen, Andile Phehlukwayo, Aiden Markram/JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, Lungi Ngidi, Kagiso Rabada, Chris Morris, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir.

Players in focus

Faf du Plessis

The Proteas skipper has scored 272 runs in his last 5 ODI innings against Sri Lanka at an average of 68.
From 6 innings in this World Cup, he has accumulated 191 runs.

Quinton de Kock

81, 94, 121, 51 and 6, these have been the scores of de Kock from the last 5 innings against Sri Lanka.
He is the leading run-scorer with 238 runs in this World Cup for South Africa.

Hashim Amla

Amla averages 53.15 against this opposition and has scored 1063 runs from 20 innings against them.
He hasn’t delivered to the fullest in this World Cup so far, but his stats against Sri Lanka are enough to describe his potential.

Imran Tahir

From 7 matches in this World Cup, Tahir has scalped 10 wickets.
Against Sri Lanka, he has scalped 33 wickets from just 14 games at a scintillating economy rate of 3.93.

Dimuth Karunaratne

The Lankan skipper has been the lynchpin of his team’s batting order.
He has scored 180 runs from 4 innings in this World Cup at an average of 60.

Angelo Mathews

The veteran finally came to his own with a fighting 85* against England which kept Sri Lanka Alive in the game.
Against South Africa, he has 481 runs to his name from 17 innings. He has got scores of 79*, 32, 22 and 97* in his last 4 innings against Sri Lanka.

Lasith Malinga

With 8 wickets from 4 matches in this World Cup, Lasith Malinga is the leading wicket-taker for Sri Lanka.
Against the Proteas, the veteran fast bowler has picked up 36 wickets from 23 matches.
In the World Cup, he has scalped 5 wickets against South Africa from just 2 matches which includes a hat-trick as well.