South African captain Temba Bavuma is absent from the first Odi Three match series against India At Ranchi’s JSCA International Stadium, Aiden Markram stepped up athletically as South Africa stood up and elected to bowl first.
Why is Temba Bavuma not playing today’s game against India?
Bavuma, who won South Africa’s first Test series since 2000, on match day asked the team management to rest as a reserve ahead of the remaining ODIs in Raipur and Visakhapatnam. This follows his recent heavy workload across formats, including a middle-century with an average of 45.50. Markram, an experienced MP with previous Odi captaincy experience, is billed as the key to the Series, batting at number three in a projected line-up above Quinton de Kock and Ryan Rickelton.
Despite the change in captaincy, South Africa come in confident with their red-ball advantage and seam options, with the likes of Color Jansen and Lungi Ngigi boasting Ranchi’s seam-friendly pitch and a strong top-order and seam options to exploit the potential dew and potential dew. Bavuma’s availability for the next games is likely to be his absence, sending this white ball reset Tests Test loss for India in this white ball reset.
Bavuma, South Africa also decided to rest left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj, who was instrumental in the historic Test series win on Indian soil.
“We’ll swell first. Spent a few evenings here … it’ll be a little easier for the nighttime dew and the night to sink.” After Saeed Markram was dismissed.
“Just one spinner in Subrayen, I’ll bat a bit – Temba and Maharaj rested, four sears for us today,” he added.
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IND VS SA: Both teams play XI
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 KharabrayenNandre Burger, Otteil Baartman
