Highlights, India vs South Africa, 3rd Test, Day 1 at Johannesburg: IND 187, SA 6 for 1

Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of India in South Africa series. This is Day One of the third and final Test at the New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. I am Suvajit Mustafi and I will be bringing you all the live scores and updates from the day’s play. South Africa may have sealed the series 2-0, but India have a lot to play for. India are yet to lose a Test at this venue and they will hope to keep the record intact. For South Africa, a win will help them inch closer to the No.1 rank that India hold at the moment.

If South Africa whitewashes India 3-0 in this series, India would not immediately lose their crown. However, South Africa will gain four points and would require two more Test wins during the Australia series to become the best Test side.

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India, however, are caught in a huge conundrum – the team selection. Several for Indian cricketers have lashed out on Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri for keeping out Ajinkya Rahane from both Tests and Bhuvneshwar Kumar from the second. As for the pitch, with the green cover on the track, Wanderers is expected a pacer’s paradise. There is a possibility that both sides will go in with an all pace attack.

Squads:

India: Virat Kohli (c), Parthiv Patel (wk), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar

South Africa: Faf du Plessis (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Dean Elgar, Aiden Markram, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Vernon Philander, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Morne Morkel, Lungisani Ngidi, Theunis de Bruyn, Chris Morris, Andile Phehlukwayo, Duanne Olivier

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