South Africa Vs Canada Highlights, ICC T20 World Cup 2026: Proteas Start Campaign With Thumping 57-Run Victory

Hello cricket fans! Forget Monday Blues as we are back with the live coverage of match 9 of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 between South Africa and Canada at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Stay tuned for the live score and real-time updates of the match.

Match: South Africa vs Canada, Group D

Time: 7:00 PM IST

Venue: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

The match 9 of ICC T20 Cricket World Cup between South Africa and Canada will be telecast live on the Star Sports Network. It will also be streamed live on the JioHotstar app.

Canada won the toss and elected to bowl first against South Africa.

Canada: Yuvraj Samra, Dilpreet Bajwa(c), Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Shreyas Movva(w), Harsh Thaker, Saad Bin Zafar, Jaskaran Singh, Dilon Heyliger, Kaleem Sana, Ansh Patel

South Africa: Aiden Markram(c), Quinton de Kock(w), Ryan Rickelton, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi

South African openers - Quinton de Kock and Aiden Markram are on the crease to face the Canadian bowlers, while Kaleem Sana will start the proceedings for Canada with the ball.

RSA 0/0 (0)

South Africa are off to a solid start against Canada with Aiden Markram taking the charge. The skipper has raced past to 18 off just 10 runs. Meanwhile, CAN got a big opportunity to send De Kock back but the fielder couldn't hold onto the catch.

RSA 32/0 (3)

Worrying signs for Canada as both Aiden Markram (35*) and Quinton De Kock (22*) are looking in fine touch at the Narendra Modi Stadium. If they keep going on in the same manner then it will be a matter of time, when we'll see a mammoth score posted by RSA that will out of Canada's reach.

RSA 66/0 (6)

Though Canada got the wicket of dangerous Quinton de Kock, yet the run-rate is moving at a brisk pace as Markram reached to his fifty in just 28 balls. He is well complemented by wicket-keeper batter Ryan Rickelton.

RSA 104/1 (10)

Ansh Patel makes his presence felt with a double wicket over where he dismisses Ryan Rickelton and Dewald Brevis in the 14th over. RSA lose some quick wickets after a strong start, however, they are still going good towards a big total with David Miller (10*) and Tristian Stubbs (4*) on crease

RSA 151/4 (15)

David Miller (39*) and Tristian Stubbs (34*) strike three sixes in the last over of Jaskaran Singh to take South Africa to 213 runs in the first innings. David Miller and Tristian Stubbs forged an unbeaten 75-run partnership for the 5th wicket to take Proteas to such a big total.

RSA 213/4 (20)

Canada lost their skipper Dilpreet Bajwa on the first ball of the innings as he got caught behind off Lungi Ngidi. Not a start Canada would want like while chasing a mammoth 214 runs.

CAN 4/1 (1)

Shreyas Movva smashed 2 boundaries off Lungi Ngidi but still Canada are behind in the game as they have lost three wickets inside the first five overs. Lungi Ngidi has been the wrecker-in-chief so far, bagging all the three wickets.

CAN 44/3 (5)

Harsh Thaker and Navin Dhaliwal have forged an unbeaten 30-run stand for the 5th wicket. However they still need 139 runs more to win from 10 overs.

RSA 75/4 (10)

Navneet Dhaliwal (46 not out) and Harsh Thaker (29 not out) have led a good recovery for Canada, though the asking rate has continued to balloon and now stands at 17.33 runs per over. The result appears to be a foregone conclusion at this point; it's more about how much the Canadians can fight to reduce the margin of defeat.

CAN: 110/4 (14)

Kaleem Sana ends the match with a boundary but South Africa eventually win the match by 57 runs. Lungi Ngidi turned out to be the pick of the bowlers with a four-for. Navneet Dhaliwal was the highest scorer for Canada, smashing 64 off 49 deliveries.

CAN 156/8 (20)

That's a wrap from our end. We'll be back soon with another blog, until then, bye bye.