In the World Cup 2011 Warm up matches South Africa play his first match against Zimbabwe on 12 Feb 2011. South Africa is from one of most favorite team in this world cup 2011.His all previous matches they prove that they will show a better performance according to all previous world cups .
Zimbabwe 152 (41.5 overs)
South Africa 153/2 (23.3 overs)
South Africa won by 8 wickets
| Zimbabwe innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| BRM Taylor | c †de Villiers b Imran Tahir | 40 | 88 | 57 | 3 | 0 | 70.17 | |
| CK Coventry | c Imran Tahir b Morkel | 21 | 42 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 72.41 | |
| T Taibu† | c Smith b Morkel | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GA Lamb | c †de Villiers b Peterson | 11 | 32 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 34.37 | |
| E Chigumbura* | lbw b Peterson | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| CR Ervine | lbw b Botha | 8 | 20 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| SC Williams | run out (du Plessis) | 35 | 67 | 60 | 2 | 0 | 58.33 | |
| RW Chakabva | c †de Villiers b Morkel | 18 | 48 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 54.54 | |
| P Utseya | c Duminy b Imran Tahir | 5 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| AG Cremer | not out | 3 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 42.85 | |
| SW Masakadza | lbw b Imran Tahir | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 3, nb 2) | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 41.5 overs; 169 mins) | 152 | (3.63 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat CB Mpofu, RW Price, EC Rainsford |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Steyn | 6 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 4.83 | |||
| LL Tsotsobe | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5.00 | |||
| M Morkel | 6 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 2.66 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| WD Parnell | 5 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 2.20 | (1w) | ||
| Imran Tahir | 8.5 | 0 | 35 | 3 | 3.96 | (1nb) | ||
| RJ Peterson | 6 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 3.50 | (1w) | ||
| J Botha | 6 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 3.00 | |||
| JP Duminy | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3.00 |
| South Africa innings (target: 153 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| HM Amla | c †Taibu b Price | 45 | 44 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 136.36 | |
| GC Smith* | st †Taibu b Lamb | 41 | 76 | 54 | 3 | 1 | 75.92 | |
| JH Kallis | not out | 49 | 50 | 39 | 3 | 3 | 125.64 | |
| AB de Villiers† | not out | 12 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| Extras | (w 6) | 6 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets; 23.3 overs; 94 mins) | 153 | (6.51 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat JP Duminy, F du Plessis, CA Ingram, J Botha, Imran Tahir, RJ Peterson, WD Parnell, LL Tsotsobe, DW Steyn, M Morkel |
| Fall of wickets1-69 (Amla, 11.1 ov), 2-117 (Smith, 18.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CB Mpofu | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 7.33 | |||
| P Utseya | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4.66 | |||
| SW Masakadza | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 5.40 | |||
| RW Price | 4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 4.75 | |||
| AG Cremer | 4.3 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 5.77 | |||
| GA Lamb | 4 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 11.25 | (2w) |
| Match details |
| Players per side 14 (11 batting, 11 fielding) |
| Toss Zimbabwe, who chose to bat |
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Umpires SJA Taufel (Australia) and RJ Tucker (Australia) Match referee RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) Reserve umpire EAR de Silva (Sri Lanka) |
