South Africa won the toss and opted to bowl first in the second one-day international against England at the Mangaung Oval in Bloemfontein on Sunday.

“It’s a morning game so the wicket might be a bit on the sticky side, there might be a little bit in it for the seamers,” said South Africa captain Temba Bavuma.

The Proteas managed to win the first match by 27 runs at the same venue in a day-night game on Friday after choosing to bat first.

“It looks a good wicket. We’re happy to have first use of it,” said England captain Jos Buttler.

“We played some really good cricket (on Friday) but we didn’t quite do it for long enough.”

Both teams made changes as Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi and Marco Jansen came in for South Africa to replace the likes of Tabraiz Shamsi, Kagiso Rabada and Sisanda Magala, respectively.

Meanwhile, Chris Woakes and Reece Topley replaced Jofra Archer and David Willey in what Buttler described as “rotation” of their bowling resources.

The third and final game of the series takes place at Kimberley on Wednesday.

South Africa: Temba Bavuma (captain), Quinton de Kock (wkt), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Wayne Parnell, Keshav Maharaj, Marco Jansen, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi.

England: Jos Buttler (captain, wkt), Jason Roy, Dawid Malan, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Olly Stone, Reece Topley.

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