India selected to bat vs South Africa
Suryakumar Yadav received the toss for the primary time within the four-match T20I sequence in opposition to South Africa and caught to what has labored for them of their two wins to this point. They are going to make South Africa chase on the Wanderers, in what’s a must-win recreation for the hosts to keep away from dropping the sequence.
Each groups went in with the identical XIs they fielded at SuperSport Park, which demonstrated India’s confidence of their specialist spinners even in circumstances which go well with seamers extra. Varun Chakravarthy leads the wicket-takers’ checklist with 10 to his title, double that of his nearest rival, Arshdeep Singh. Ravi Bishnoi and Gerald Coetzee are subsequent with 4 wickets every.
South Africa haven’t had constant performers with ball in hand however have stored religion in a four-seam assault. Gerald Coetzee and Lutho Sipamla had been notably costly on Friday night, however Sipamla, on his dwelling floor, could really feel assured of his potential on the place the place he put in a player-of-the-match efficiency in a home ultimate simply 10 days in the past. Keshav Maharaj stays the only real specialist spinner. There was no room for Donovan Ferreira, Patrick Kruger, Ottneil Baartman or uncapped allrounder Mihlali Mpongwana.
India haven’t wanted reserve wicket-keeper batter Jitesh Sharma, or uncapped left-arm seamer Yash Dayal, and right-arm seamer Vijaykumar Vyshak. India can not lose the sequence however a win will give them a fifth-successive bilateral-series win this 12 months. They’ve
won 23 out of 25 matches within the format in 2024.
South Africa: 1 Ryan Rickelton (wk), 2 Reeza Hendricks, 3 Aiden Markram (capt), 4 Tristan Stubbs, 5 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 6 David Miller, 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Gerald Coetzee, 9 Andile Simelane, 10 Keshav Maharaj, 11 Lutho Sipamla
India: 1 Sanju Samson (wk), 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Tilak Varma, 4 Suryakumar Yadav (capt), 5 Hardik Pandya, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Ramandeep Singh, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10 Ravi Bishnoi, 11 Varun Chakravarthy
