Manually trigger cell select TableView

I need to manually programmatically trigger a cell select on my tableView. Essentially running the pre-made function

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

I'm doing this in order to when an item is deleted from the tableView it will automatically load the next item. However when I try to manually call this function it can't seem to be found. I've tried

self.tableView: didSelectRowAtIndexPath

and

[tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath]

but neither is recognised.