Team preview: South Africa

T20 World Ranking: 1

T20 World Cup record:

2007: Super Eights

2009: Semi-finalist

2010: Super Eights

Coach: Gary Kirsten


In August 2012 South Africa became the first nation to hold the No. 1 ranking in all three formats of the game (Test, One Day and T20), and go into the tournament after a meticulous preparation.
Strengths: The Proteas have arguably the strongest team on paper with depth in all areas, in particular the bowling department with the pace bowling of Steyn and the Morkel brothers and the spin of Peterson and Botha.
Weaknesses: It is a bit of a cliche, but South Africa's main weakness may in their own heads. They have an unfortunate history in major tournments of 'choking' especially when favoured to do well, as they are in this World Cup.

South Africa shouldn't have any trouble getting out of its group, but due the unusual seedings could be grouped with Australia, India and Pakistan in the Super Eights which appears the tougher of the two groups. South Africa would be viewing the semi-finals as a pass mark.

South African Squad
AB de Villiers (captain/wicketkeeper)	Albie Morkel
Hashim Amla	Morne Morkel
Farhaan Behardien	Justin Ontong
Johan Botha	Wayne Parnell
JP Duminy	Robin Peterson
Francois Du Plessis	Dale Steyn
Jacques Kallis	Lonwabo Tsotsabe
Richard Levi