Henry Moeran
Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

The line and the length from Afghanistan isn't working at the moment.

Aatif Nawaz
BBC Test Match Special commentator on on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Tony De Zorzi is a really exciting player. He punishes anything that's slightly overpitched or short.

Tony De Zorzi's Cricinfo profile describes him as "an attacking batter with an eccentric personality" and after initially taking his time we see his true colours.

The left-hander skips down the pitch and whips the ball past mid-on for four, then next ball expansively drives through point for another.

Henry Moeran
Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Tony De Zorzi isn't doing anything significant out there at the moment.

The crowds are still queuing up to get in outside the ground in Karachi.

Fazalhaq Farooqi bustles into the crease with purpose and it's largely played circumspectly by South Africa's opening pair.

Ryan Rickelton opens the face midway through the over to pick up a couple through backward point.

Tony De Zorzi also has to dig out a yorker-length delivery from Azmat Omarzai before he's surprised by one off the back of length from the Afghanistan seamer.

As Temba Bavuma remarked at the toss the pitch does not look a typical one you might see in Pakistan. It has plenty of green tinges on it so expect a little bit of movement early on.

De Zorzi gets off the mark with a dainty cut before Azmat beats the drive of Rickleton's bat with one which shaped away off the seam.

After a couple of sighters Ryan Rickelton is up and running.

A punchy jab on the up to Fazalhaq Farooqi's third delivery straight down the ground for four.

Rickelton spends the remainder of the over digging out full deliveries. Afghanistan's plan appears to be to target the stumps, and potentially bring lbw into play, early on.

Fazalhaq Farooqi round the wicket to the left-handed Ryan Rickelton and there's a bit of movement through the air and the South Africa opener has to dig out two full balls.

Aatif Nawaz
BBC Test Match Special commentator on on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

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These are two evenly matched teams, it's certainly a harder one to call than yesterday.

Ryan Rickelton has just scratched out his guard. Fazalhaq Farooqi has the ball in hand.

Let's do this.

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

There's absolutely no sun today, the ball might swing a little.

The players are striding out on to the outfield.

You may have spotted no Heinrich Klaasen in South Africa's XI today. He has been ruled out of today's match as a precautionary measure with an elbow injury.

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Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi says his players will ignore any potential distraction caused by the debate around their place at the Champions Trophy.

Afghanistan play South Africa in Karachi – the first match in a group that also includes Australia and England.

There have been calls for the other three teams to boycott their matches against Afghanistan because of the Taliban's assault on women's rights in the country.

"We only control things inside the ground," Shahidi said.

"So that's our job and other things cannot put us under pressure."

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The national anthems are done and we're just moments away from the start of the match. This is just the sixth ODI between these two teams.

South Africa: Ryan Rickelton (wicketkeeper), Tony De Zorzi, Temba Bavuma (captain), Rassie Van Der Dussen, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi.

Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Ibrahim Zadran, Sediq Atal, Rahmat Shah, Hashmat Shaidi (captain), Azmat Omarzai, Gulbadin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

It's going to be interesting to side how this surface plays. Both teams have taken a different approach to the game, they've both interpreted the pitch in different ways.

Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi: "If we'd have won the toss, we'd have batted too. The toss is now not in our hands but our focus is on how to start well. We played some quality cricket against South Africa in Sharjah. In these conditions we have quality spinners, they'll be important for us. I will be happy if we start well, and we get early wickets and restrict them going into the middle overs. We will try to not let them score too many runs, I will be happy with that."

South Africa captain Temba Bavuma: "The wicket looks different from how it generally does in Pakistan so we'll has to assess conditions. Not really sure how it'll react. Runs on the board will be key here. We have a lot of confidence in our bowling attack, consistency has been our strength. We'll be leaning on that. I don't know how many runs, we'll have to assess accordingly and see what a good score is.".

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Bit of confusion for Temba Bavuma when asked what he will do at the toss after he called correctly.

"Bat first" he says. But master of ceremonies Ramiz Raja responds "Bowl first?" prompting Bavuma to quickly clarify "bat first!" and gesticulating a drive.

South Africa captain Temba Bavuma said in his news conference yesterday that his side "do not carry any baggage from previous tournaments".

Probably best we don't mention the 'C' word just yet. It's their opening match after all.

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