Highlights, India Women vs South Africa Women, 1st ODI: IND win, go 1-0 up

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The last time these teams locked horns was in the 2017 Women s World Cup, at Leicester. Captain Dane van Niekerk s four-wicket haul restricted India to 158 all-out in the pursuit of 274.

In the last five matches, South Africa have batted first against India but have emerged victorious only twice.

India have not played international cricket since the final of the 2018 World Cup. Every match will be scrutinised by people, by the critics, by everybody, because now people have seen the actual standard of women's cricket and the Indian team. So, yes, from now on whatever matches that we get to play, will be closely watched by all of them (and) followed by all the cricket fanatic people in our country as well as around the world, said Mithali Raj in the pre-match conference.

Squads:

India: Mithali Raj (c), Taniya Bhatia (wk), Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Jhulan Goswami, Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Smriti Mandhana, Mona Meshram, Shikha Pandey, Punam Raut, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Sushma Verma (wk) and Poonam Yadav

South Africa: Dane van Niekerk (c), Marizanne Kapp, Trisha Chetty, Shabnim Ismail, Ayabonga Khaka, Masabata Klaas, Sune Luus, Laura Wolvaardt, Mignon du Preez, Lizelle Lee, Chloe Tryon, Andrie Steyn, Raisibe Ntozakhe and Zintle Mali