SA vs IND, 1st TestRohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah return as India look to script history in South Africa

India is all set to handle South Africa in the Boxing Day Test at the SuperSport Park Cricket Stadium in Centurion with huge weapons like skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah going back to the fray.

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The 3 gamers will be handling the field for the very first time considering that India lost the ICC Men’ s Cricket World Cup last versus Australia in Ahmedbad last month. The Test group, led by Rohit, played an intra-squad match at Tuks Oval in Pretoria. A few of the Test regulars likewise played a trip video game before the intra-squad match. Kohli and the rest of the group existed for India’s training session ahead of the Boxing Day Test.

The trio is back in the Test team after being rested for the T20I and ODI series versus the Proteas. The Men in Blue were held to a 1-1 attract the three-match T20I series with the very first match being cleaned off due to rain, and beat South Africa 2-1 in the three-match ODI series

Rohit will lead the Indian group in a two-match Test series versus South Africa, intending to end up being the very first Indian skipper to sign up a Test series win on South African soil. Prior to Rohit, 7 various Indian captains have actually attempted and stopped working to dominate South Africa in Test cricket. Out of 22 Tests, India have actually won just 4 matches in South Africa.

WHAT THE CAPTAINS SAID

Speaking ahead of the Test series, Rohit worried that the group requires to win something huge following their heart-breaking loss on the planet Cup last. India has actually played 8 Test series in South Africa, losing 7 and drawing one.

We’ve never ever won a Test series in South Africa, if we win the series, I do not understand if it can make up for the World Cup loss. World Cup is a World Cup, we can’t compare. We have actually worked so hard, so we require something, something huge. And everybody is desperate for it. We have the tools and I hope we carry out well. We wish to play easily and not believe much,” stated Rohit.

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South Africa skipper Temba Bavuma firmly insisted that they have a lot of pride connected to their home Test record versus India. Bavuma, like Rohit, will be playing his very first match throughout formats given that their exit from the ODI World Cup semi-final versus eventual-winners Australia.

There’s a great deal of pride connected to that – that we’ve had the ability to keep that record undamaged as a South African group. Everyone as gamers likewise feel that. We comprehend playing versus India comes with specific obstacles and it’s those types of difficulties we would like to focus on,” stated Bavuma.

TEAM NEWS

With the return of Rohit, Kohli and Bumrah, India’ s group seeks to have the best mix of youth and experience for the upcoming Test series. The similarity Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill have actually settled in well in India’ s batting setup and will offer the group will younger spirit versus South Africa.

Other Test stalwarts in the type of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja will likewise be associated with the two-match Test series, with Prasidh Krishna and Mukesh Kumar in contention following Mohammed Shami’ s injury.

KL Rahul, who ended up being simply the 2nd Indian captain after Virat Kohli to win an ODI series in South Africa, will lag the stumps. Shreyas Iyer and Mohammed Siraj are likewise healthy and anticipated to play the very first Test in Centurion.

When it comes to the hosts, the huge news was available in the type of Dean Elgar, who revealed that he’d be retiring from worldwide cricket following this series. With a fairly unskilled batting order, South Africa will greatly depend upon their lethal rate attack to fire in Centurion.

MATCH DETAILS

Location: SuperSport Park Cricket Stadium, Centurion

DateTuesday, December 26

Timing: 1:30 PM IST

Broadcast: Star Sports and Hotstar

Anticipated XIs

IndiaRohit Sharma (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (WK), Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin/Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj.

South AfricaDean Elgar, Tony de Zorzi, Temba Bavuma (C), Aiden Markram, Keegan Petersen, Kyle Verreynne (WK), Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Gerald Coetzee, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi.