Match highlights, India vs South Africa, Match 8: Rohit Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal star as India beat South Africa by six wickets

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Match 8 of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 will be played between India and South Africa at the Ageas Bowl, Southampton on Wednesday. This will be India’s tournament opener, while South Africa will be playing their third World Cup 2019 game, still searching for their first win of the season.

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Fans of the Indian cricket team – and they are countless – can be forgiven for being a bit miffed by the delay in getting to see their heroes in action.

India landed in London on May 22. Since then, they’ve played two World Cup warm-up matches. Trained four times (their fifth training is today). Virat Kohli went and met the Queen. Since the World Cup began on May 30, South Africa, England, South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan have played two matches. New Zealand and Australia one each. India?

They went for a paintball session.

When Kohli’s team meet South Africa at Southampton’s Ageas Bowl on Wednesday (June 5) in match eight of the World Cup, it will be the seventh day of the tournament. Farcical, I hear you say?

Perhaps. There are murmurs of the BCCI influencing the ICC to have India’s first match of the World Cup pushed back to give the team rest after the exhausting IPL. In other corners, there is talk of the gap giving Kohli’s team more time to acclimatise. From a fan’s perspective, it is frustrating to have to wait.

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1.Quinton de Kock, 2.Virat Kohli (CAPTAIN), 3. Shikhar Dhawan (VICE CAPTAIN), 4. KL Rahul, 5. Rassie Van Der Dussen, 6. Aiden Markram, 7. Hardik Pandya, 8. Yuzvendra Chahal, 9. Jasprit Bumrah, 10. Kagiso Rabada, 11. Imran Tahir