Defending world champions England will tackle South Africa in match no. 20 of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. This would be the first match to be hosted by Mumbai within the World Cup 2023 to this point.
Jos Buttler’s England and Temba Bavuma-led South Africa are coming into this conflict on the again of shock losses to Afghanistan and the Netherlands respectively. Both groups might be eager to return to successful methods and preserve their hopes of qualifying for the semifinals alive with a win on Saturday.
All eyes might be on the climate in Mumbai on Saturday afternoon and night. The MET division has issued extreme warmth warning for Saturday in Mumbai.
The temperature might be round 37 levels on Saturday afternoon when Buttler and Bavuma stroll out for the toss. The humidity might be round 46 per cent with 9 per cent cloud cowl across the afternoon.
By night, the temperature ought to drop to round 30 levels however the humidity will rise to round 65 per cent. Thankfully for the followers, there’s only one per cent probability of rain predicted for Saturday, so we should always have a full sport on between England and South Africa. The dew level is about 24 levels, so it’s unlikely that dew could have an enormous say within the match within the night in Mumbai.
South Africa’s final match towards the Netherlands in Dharamsala is the one match to be interrupted by rain to this point within the World Cup 2023. The sport was lowered to 43-overs-a-side final week and Netherlands went on to win the conflict by 38 runs.
England and South Africa famously performed out a rain-hit match within the 1992 World Cup semifinals in Sydney. To South Africa’s heartbreak, the goal was lowered to 22 runs off 1 ball after the match acquired hit by rain on the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) and England went on to achieve the ultimate whereas SA have been knocked out.
There are some patchy stay grass on the 22-yard pitch on the Wankhede Stadium and it appears to be like a bit of dry on the eve of the match, but it surely proved an absolute belter within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 season, with a median complete throughout seven video games of 196, together with three profitable chases of 200-plus targets.
