South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first in the opening match of the Wonder Cement T20 International series against India at Kingsmead in Durban on Friday.

 

This is the first of four eagerly awaited matches being played between the countries following India’s dramatic seven-run victory in the ICC World Cup final in Bridgetown, Barbados in June. The other games are in Gqeberha on Sunday, Centurion next Wednesday and in Johannesburg next Friday. All the matches are sell-outs.

SOUTH AFRICA: Ryan Rickelton (wk), Aiden Markram (capt), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Patrick Kruger, Marco Jansen, Andile Simelane, Gerald Coetzee, Keshav Maharaj, Nqabayomzi Peter

INDIA: Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Varun Chakravarthy