CARDIFF: West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo won the toss and elected to field against South Africa in their Champions Trophy match at Cardiff on Friday.
Rain reduced the winner-takes-all clash to 36 overs per side, with the victors joining already-qualified India as one of the two Group B sides going through to the semi-finals.
The minimum number of overs required to declare a result is 20 per side -- a format that would appear to favour the West Indies given they are the reigning World Twenty20 champions.
If further rain means that mark is not reached, South Africa will go through to the last four because of their superior net run-rate (+0.41 to West Indies' -0.08).
AFP