Today is the beginning of the tussle which will decide who is the Top Gun of the world. The first clash is between South Africa and Pakistan. You can watch match here live and also post match highlights.
South Africa has done well to reach this stage. It has not given an opportunity to any of the teams that it has competed with to reach the top position in its group. South Africa has beaten New Zealand in its group matches and then went on to beat West Indies, England and India.
South Africa has obviously kept its best performance for West Indies where it notched up an impressive total. Its other matches with England and India were decisive but not exciting. But then South African batting line up has not been tested for its endurance. If South Africa wants to lift the trophy its batting line up and the execution will be tested in the next two days. The first team to do so will be Pakistan which now has a good bowling attack but cannot follow it up with a performance with the willow.
That would mean that even if Pakistan succeed in containing South Africa it will not be able to make a dent to the South African attack.
This is not to take away any thing from Pakistan. They have fought their way up to regain a semi final berth and they will no doubt give their best shot. But considering that they are not starting with a clean slate- having lost a match to England and Sri Lanka already.
But today is a new day and a new beginning and may the best team win. You can watch this pakistan vs southafrica match in this site once it commences.
