The series is deadlocked at one win a piece, however, for South Africa, this match has a lot of significance.

Should the Proteas lose today, there is no way they can automatically qualify for next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup in India, and they will have to play in qualifiers against the likes of Zimbabwe.

Aidan Markram, who scored 79 points on Sunday night, believes they can learn a lot from the game.

"There are two sides to it. If we get to look at it from one side, we also get to play some cricket," Markram said.

"We get to stay out in the park and the guys get to find form or continue form. That's one of the positives.

"The two formats are slightly different and we're looking at taking everything that we can take from them, but this series is very important for us because of World Cup qualifying points.

"We're giving it our all and we'll try to take every positive from the ODI series into the T20 World Cup in Australia."

Play in Delhi is scheduled to get underway on Tuesday morning at 10:00.

Morgan Piek OFM Sport