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Summary Pakistan will play their first match against Canada in 32 years, while South Africa will take on the Netherlands today.
The match will be played at Premadasa Stadium in Colombo and will start at 2 pm Pakistani time. The green shirts defeated Kenya and Sri Lanka in their first two matches of the World Cup.Saeed Ajmal, Wahab Riaz and Asad Shafiq are likely to make their World Cup debut as Shoaib Akhtar, Misbah-ul-Haq and Abdur Rehman are in doubt to play today’s game due to fitness problems. Pakistan and Canada have faced one another on cricket field only once when the two sides met in the World Cup 1979. Pakistan won the match by eight wickets.
