Champions Trophy 2024/25, from against Sat 7. Game, Group B Match report, February 25, 2025

Match abandoned because of rain Australia VS South Africa

The highly expected champions trophy game between Australia and South Africa in Rawalpindi was rinsed out without a throw. The match was deported at 5:10 p.m. local time, three hours and 10 minutes after the planned start of the game at 2 p.m. and two hours and 22 minutes before the downtime for a game with 8 p.m. to 7.32 p.m. and local time. This should be the first meeting of the teams at a Champions Trophy.

The result means that if Australia and South Africa win their last group games against Afghanistan and England, they will exceed the semi -finals. Tomorrow game between England and Afghanistan is a co -game, with the loser going out the competition. The winner has to beat his next opposition to make it to Semis. As a result, one of the games between Australia and Afghanistan on Friday and South Africa and England could be a virtual quarter -finals on Saturday. Both games have to win both England and Afghanistan to qualify for the Final Four.

With No Xis, who was named after this encounter, South Africa kept her cards near her chest on Heinrich Klaasen's availability. He missed her opening game against Afghanistan with an elbow injury and now has three more days to recover before the game against England on Saturday.

This should be the first meeting between Australia and South Africa since the semi-finals of the 2023 World Cup, which Australia won and means that they continue to have the advantage over South Africa at ICC events. In nine games, Australia won four, South Africa three, at the 1999 World Cup and now their first washing out. If the two sides are supposed to meet again at this event, it must be in the final.