Welcome to Dawn.com’s live coverage of the ICC Cricket World Cup where readers will for the very first time get the opportunity to commentate on the match in real time. Here’s your chance to provide your analysis, set the field, predict the outcome of the match and have your say as South Africa take on Netherlands and Canada play Pakistan.

GROUP A:

Result: Pakistan won by 46 runs

Toss: Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat

Teams:

Canada: A Bagai (Capt), Rizwan Cheema, HS Baidwan, WD Balaji Rao, JM Davison, PA Desai, TG Gordon, R Gunasekera, AS Hansra, Khurram Chohan, NR Kumar, H Osinde, H Patel, ZE Surkari, K Whatham

Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (Capt), Misbah-ul-Haq, Abdul Razzaq, Abdur Rehman, Ahmed Shehzad, Asad Shafiq, Junaid Khan, Kamran Akmal†, Mohammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Akmal, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Younis Khan

Umpires: DJ Harper and NJ Llong

TV umpire: AL Hill

Match referee: BC Broad

GROUP B:

Result: South Africa won by 231 runs

Toss: Netherlands won the toss and elected to field.

Teams:

South Africa: HM Amla, GC Smith (Capt), JH Kallis, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, F du Plessis, MN van Wyk, RJ Peterson, M Morkel, DW Steyn, Imran Tahir

Netherlands: AN Kervezee, W Barresi, TLW Cooper, RN ten Doeschate, B Zuiderent, TN de Grooth, PW Borren (Capt), Mudassar Bukhari, PM Seelaar, BP Loots, BA Westdijk

Umpires: EAR de Silva (Sri Lanka) and RA Kettleborough (England)

TV umpire: SJA Taufel (Australia)

Match referee: JJ Crowe (New Zealand)

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