South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl against New Zealand
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McGlashan: de Villiers could decide fate of series
AB de Villiers made it five out of five with the coin in the one-day series and opted to bowl first in the decider at Eden Park.
If South Africa win, they will regain the No. 1 ranking they started the series with – it has slipped after the Hamilton defeat – and if New Zealand take the series, it will continue an unbeaten home run in ODIs that dates back to South Africa’s previous visit in 2014.
New Zealand have named an unchanged XI, which means that Jeetan Patel will again form a twin-spin attack alongside Mitchell Santner. Spin has had an unexpectedly key role to play for them in this series.
South Africa have made once change, bringing the fit-again Andile Phehlukwayo, who missed Hamilton with a groin niggle, in for Wayne Parnell. Imran Tahir has had a quiet one-day series, but took 5 for 24 here in the T20I.
Eden Park has produced plenty of tight ODIs in the last four years, with the most famous of them being the World Cup semi-final between these sides.
New Zealand 1 Martin Guptill, Dean Brownlie, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Ross Taylor, 5 James Neesham, 6 Luke Ronchi (wk), 7 Colin de Grandhomme, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Tim Southee, 10 Jeetan Patel, 11 Trent Boult
South Africa 1 Hashim Amla, 2 Quinton de Kock (wk), 3 Faf du Plessis, 4 AB de Villiers (capt), 5 JP Duminy, 6 David Miller, 7 Dwaine Pretorius, 8 Chris Morris, 9 Andile Phehlukwayo, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Imran Tahir
Andrew McGlashan is a deputy editor at ESPNcricinfo
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Source: ESPN Crickinfo