Centurion: South African captain AB de Villiers won the toss and opted to bowl first in the third and final one-day international on Saturday against Pakistan as guests already won the series by 2-0.
At the toss ceremony, the SA captain said that they have a time to control on faults which they did in first two matches and the team tried to win the third match by giving good performances.
SA has made changes in the team to give arrest the seniors Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis and Dale Steyn.
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq said that the management had decided to give a change to young blood and for this purpose they included Asad Shafiq, Umar Amin, Abdur Rehman and Sohail Tanvir in place of injured Junaid Khan and out of form Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez and Nasir Jamshed.
“It does not matter that you win a toss or not but it does matter that you win the match or not,”, Misbah added.
Lineups: Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Ahmed Shehzad, Asad Shafiq, Umar Ameen, Sohaib Maqsood, Umar Akmal, Sohail Tanvir, Bilawal Bhatti, Saeed Ajmal, Abdur Rehman, Anwar Ali.
South Africa: AB de Villiers (captain), Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock, H Davids, JP Duminy, David Miller, R McLaren, Morne Morkel, LL Tsotsobe, , Imran Tahi, Wayne Parnell.
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