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Proteas win toss, bowl in must-win clash against Afghanistan

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Quinton de Kock (Getty Images)
Quinton de Kock (Getty Images)

Cardiff - South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl in their must-win World Cup match against Afghanistan in Cardiff on Saturday.

LIVE: South Africa v Afghanistan

The Proteas, missing the injured Dale Steyn, suffered defeats against England, Bangladesh and India before picking up a point from a rain-ruined match against the West Indies in Southampton.

Afghanistan are also winless and were bottom of the 10-team table before the match, one place below South Africa.

South Africa were unchanged from the team that started the match against the West Indies, which ended in a no result.

Afghanistan made one change, bringing in former captain Asghar Afghan in place of Najibullah Zadran.

"Chasing when there is rain around generally gives you a better indication of what to do," said South Africa captain Faf du Plessis.

"We have played hardly any cricket so there is no need to make any changes. We've had a lot of rain which hasn't been ideal but we've had some good team chats."

Afghanistan skipper Gulbadin Naib said: "We would have had a bowl as well but we have had a good four days of practice here."

Teams:

South Africa

Quinton de Kock (wkt), Hashim Amla, Faf du Plessis (captain), Aiden Markram, Rassie van der Dussen, David Miller, Andile Phehlukwayo, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Beuran Hendricks, Imran Tahir

Afghanistan

Hazratullah Zazai, Noor Ali Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Asghar Afghan, Gulbadin Naib (captain), Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil (wkt), Rashid Khan, Aftab Alam, Hamid Hassan

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