Australia vs South Africa Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Cut-off time revealed after persistent rain in Rawalpindi

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The other two teams in Group B are still alive in the semifinal race despite losing their first matches. England suffered defeat to Australia despite scoring 350+ in the first innings. If today’s match gets washed out and England manage to beat both Afghanistan and South Africa, they could reach 4 points, which might push South Africa out of the semi-finals.

It is going to be a similar equation for Afghanistan as if they beat England and Australia, they too could reach 4 points, potentially knocking Australia out of contention.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Things are not looking good at the moment, with the persistent rain continuing to delay the proceedings. In case the match gets abandoned, both teams will share a point each. South Africa and Australia will move up to 3 points as they won their first matches of the campaign. However, South Africa will continue to lead the Group B standings due to their superior Net Run Rate (NRR): +2.140, compared to Australia’s +0.475.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Australia entered the marquee event without its decorated pace trio featuring Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood. Adding to that, the Baggy Greens were further impacted by Mitchell Marsh’s injury and Marcus Stoinis taking a sudden retirement.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The covers are firm in place as it continues to drizzle in Rawalpindi. We will start losing overs from 3:30 PM IST. No team wants to share points in a tournament like Champions Trophy as both Australia and South Africa would be desperate to battle it out on the field.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: In case you missed the news, and the general meltdown happening in the host nation, India and New Zealand have serenely sailed through to the semi-final. They are both on four points having beaten Bangladesh and Pakistan, both of whom were not just defeated but even looked completely out of their depth.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Australia and South Africa are currently second and first respectively in Group B. South Africa’s net run rate of 2.140 is what is keeping them above Australia (0.475). England are third and Afghanistan are fourth.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: That is set to happen around 3pm local time, which translates to 3.30pm IST. The lights are on at around 2 in the afternoon, which is unthinkable in this part of the world on most occasions. Just shows how gloomy the prospects for this match looks.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The rain hasn’t stopped but it is a very slight drizzle now. The super soppers are at work on the outfield but little else to report. No activity on the covers yet. It wouldn’t be an ICC tournament without at least one rain affected match, eh? There has been no rain in Pindi for months and it comes right when Australia are about to meet South Africa.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Well it took quite a while for that official update to come but it was pretty clear about an hour ago that this match is not getting off to an on-time start.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Still drizzling and the covers are firmly on in Rawalpindi. Quite cloudy and gloomy still and it doesn’t look like the rains are going to away any time soon. We are in for a long wait.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Since South Africa’s readmission in 1991, their matches against Australia have come to define quantum leaps in the ODI game. They have played 110 ODIs against each other and South Africa lead the head-to-head stats 55-51, with one match producing no result and a whopping three tied matches. One of those tied matches, the 1999 World Cup semi-final, is rumoured to have started off South Africa’s cursed runs in tournaments and left them trophyless despite fielding some of the greatest teams of all time over the years. Australia also became the first men’s team to breach the 400-run barried in ODIs in a game against South Africa and the latter became the first men’s team to chase down a 400-plus score in that same match.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: South Africa’s only ICC tournament final before 2024 was the 1998 Champions Trophy, which they won against the West Indies. All these years later, they have now suddenly added two more to their appearances in these title clashes. South Africa came agonisingly close to winning their first World Cup title of any kind in the 2024 T20 World Cup. They have a chance at winning the World Test Championship when they face Australia later this year. Now, they started their Champions Trophy off with a bang.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Bavuma said that while the Proteas are not taking the Aussies lightly by any stretch of the imagination, they know that the latters’ bowling is their weak point. “So I think, like with any team, there are opportunities, and like you rightfully said, probably within the bowling, there’s opportunities, and I think if that presents itself on the day, we’ll definitely be looking to make use of that opportunity. But in saying that, we definitely won’t be taking them lightly,” he added.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Klaasen missed South Africa’s opening game against Afghanistan because of an elbow problem. Captain Bavuma said that South Africa are playing it by the ear with regards to whether he can play today or not. “We still have to assess his fitness, he will practice today and then the medical team will make a decision accordingly,” Bavuma told reporters on Monday.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Klaasen is expected to walk out today in the middle overs, being a middle order batter and all. If he doesn’t do that then that means South Africa have run into a bit of trouble. If he does come when South Africa would like him to, it could be when Adam Zampa is in the attack. Klaasen scored 121 runs off 89 balls from Zampa in ODIs and been dismissed twice by him. All this is subject to Klaasen’s fitness of course. More of that later.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: There are few more storied rivalries in cricket, regardless of formats, than Australia vs South Africa. And yet, this is just the first time that the two sides are facing each other in the Champions Trophy.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: This is not looking good at all. It is drizzling right now and there is forecast for afternoon showers till around 3pm. After that, there could be another spell of on and off rains from 7pm.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Josh Inglis smashed an unbeaten 120 off 86 balls to power Australia’s stunning chase against England in their tournament opener. This made him the fourth Australian men’s cricketer to complete a hundred in all formats, after Aaron Finch, Glenn Maxwell and David Warner. Inglis had scored 102 off 94 balls on his Test debut against Sri Lanka last month and has two T20I centuries to his name.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Temba Bavuma is under no illusions here. “I mean, any Australian outfit that comes together for an ICC event is always one that you don’t take lightly. Yes, they don’t have, I guess, their mainstay bowling attack, but I think they still have enough to be successful as a team, like you mentioned with their batting. Maybe it could be a case of their batters maybe doing a little bit more than what they’re accustomed to,” Bavuma said in the pre-match press conference.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Ryan Rickelton(w), Tony de Zorzi, Temba Bavuma(c), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Wiaan Mulder, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi, Heinrich Klaasen, Tristan Stubbs, Corbin Bosch

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Matthew Short, Travis Head, Steven Smith(c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis(w), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson, Sean Abbott, Aaron Hardie, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Tanveer Sangha

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: It has been cloudy throughout the morning and there is a drizzle in the air. The ground is all covered up. Murmurs going around that we could be off to a delayed start today.

Australia vs South Africa Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: South Africa scored 315 in their first match, Australia scored 356 while chasing 352 in theirs. It is a batting friendly pitch in Rawalpindi. These are the two sides who showed the world all those years ago that more than 400 runs can be scored and chased in an ODI. You know where all this is going…