Heart desires South Africa, minds says India or England: Dale Steyn predicts World Cup 2023 finalists

Former South Africa pacer Dale Steyn hopes that his residence staff could make it to the ultimate of the ODI World Cup 2023 alongside India. South Africa are in type forward of the premier ICC match having defeated Australia in a 5-match ODI collection. Temba Bavuma’s facet had been 2-0 down towards a half-strength Australia after taking part in the primary 2 matches after which received three back-to-back matches to drag off an unbelievable collection victory.

Speaking on Star Sports forward of the World Cup 2023, Steyn mentioned that his coronary heart desires South Africa to play the ultimate of the match, whereas his thoughts feels that India and England can be taking part in the title conflict set to be performed on November, 19.

“It’s a tough one, you know my heart wants to go with South Africa making the final. I would love them to make the final, their team, a lot of their players play in the IPL, they play in India regularly. They got some guys like in David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen who really started to figure out those conditions and bat well there. Then, there is KG Rabada who has been bowling there for ages and a lot of their other senior players have played a lot of cricket there. So I feel like they have got the ability to go on and get to the finals with getting those players,” Steyn said on Star Sports.

Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller have been in tremendous form in the run-up to the tournament and have done well for the national team, as well as their respective franchises in the Indian Premier League. The two players will be coming off a great season in franchise cricket as well.

“I feel like the favourites would probably be India, I feel like India is going to be one of the finalists and probably England. But my heart wants to say South Africa and India but I am kind of leaning towards India and England,” the previous South Africa quick bowler concluded.

South Africa will open their marketing campaign on October 7, towards Sri Lanka within the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. They will journey to Lucknow and Dharamsala for his or her second and third match of the match.

Speaking on the identical panel, former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan echoed Steyn’s sentiments and mentioned that it was not attainable to drop England from the finals.

“See, on logic you’ll be able to’t drop England from the finalists spot as a result of they’ve a really sturdy staff, and the way in which they’re taking part in cricket with their all-rounders like at quantity 9, they’ve an all-rounder batsmen like Chris Woakes, so I do know that however I’ve a hunch in my coronary heart which says that South Africa will do nice on this World Cup,” Pathan mentioned in the identical panel.

Edited By:

Kingshuk Kusari

Published On:

Sep 27, 2023