Beuran Hendricks (L) delivers a ball to Afghanistan's Noor Ali Zadran (C) during the group stage match in Cardiff on Saturday. AFP

The Proteas, missing the injured Dale Steyn, suffered defeats against England, Bangladesh and India before picking up a point from a rain-ruined match against the West Indies in Southampton.

Afghanistan are also winless and were bottom of the 10-team table before the match, one place below South Africa.

South Africa were unchanged from the team that started the match against the West Indies, which ended in a no result.

Afghanistan made one change, bringing in former captain Asghar Afghan in place of Najibullah Zadran.

"Chasing when there is rain around generally gives you a better indication of what to do," said South Africa captain Faf du Plessis.

"We have played hardly any cricket so there is no need to make any changes. We've had a lot of rain which hasn't been ideal but we've had some good team chats."

Afghanistan skipper Gulbadin Naib said: "We would have had a bowl as well but we have had a good four days of practice here."

Teams:

South Africa: Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock (wkt), Aiden Markram, Faf du Plessis (capt), Rassie van der Dussen, David Miller, Andile Phehlukwayo, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Beuran Hendricks, Imran Tahir

Afghanistan: Hazratullah Zazai, Noor Ali Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Asghar Afghan, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib (capt), Ikram Alikhil (wkt), Rashid Khan, Aftab Alam, Hamid Hassan

Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZL), Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SRI)

TV umpire: Ian Gould (ENG)

Match referee: Andy Pycroft (ZIM)