South Africa captain Temba Bavuma is absent from the primary ODI of the three-match series against India at Ranchi’s JSCA Worldwide Stadium, with Aiden Markram stepping in as stand-in skipper after South Africa gained the toss and elected to bowl first.
Why Temba Bavuma shouldn’t be taking part in as we speak’s match towards India?
Bavuma, who led South Africa to their first Take a look at sequence win in India since 2000, wakened unwell on match day, prompting workforce administration to relaxation him as a precaution forward of the remaining ODIs in Raipur and Visakhapatnam. This follows his latest heavy workload throughout codecs, together with the Assessments the place he averaged 45.50 with a gritty century. Markram, a seasoned deputy with prior ODI captaincy expertise, takes cost for the sequence opener, batting at quantity three within the predicted lineup alongside Quinton de Kock and Ryan Rickelton up prime.
Regardless of the captaincy change, South Africa arrives with confidence from their red-ball dominance, boasting a powerful prime order and seam choices like Marco Jansen and Lungi Ngidi to take advantage of Ranchi’s seam-friendly pitch and potential dew. Bavuma’s availability for subsequent video games stays possible, however his absence checks squad depth on this white-ball reset for India publish their Take a look at loss.
Aside from Bavuma, South Africa have additionally determined to relaxation left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj, who performed a vital position within the historic Take a look at sequence win on Indian soil.
“We’ll bowl first. Spent a few evenings right here… dew at night time time and it’ll be barely simpler to bat at night time,” stated Markram after profitable the toss.
“Only one spinner in Subrayen, I’ll bowl a bit – Temba and Maharaj have been rested, 4 seamers for us as we speak,” he added.
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IND vs SA: Taking part in XI of each groups
India: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Washington Sundar, KL Rahul (c & wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna
South Africa: Ryan Rickelton, Quinton de Kock (wk), Aiden Markram (c), Matthew Breetzke, Tony de Zorzi, Dewald Brevis, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Prenelan Subrayen, Nandre Burger, Ottneil Baartman
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