India vs South Africa 1st ODI Live Cricket Score Updates: Marco Jansen picked Rohit Sharma. India are two down. Earlier, South African skipper Aiden Markram won the toss and opted to bowl first against KL Rahul’s India in the first of the three match ODI series at the JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi on Sunday
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In his previous ODI in Sydney last month, Rohit proved the doubters wrong with a scintillating century and despite a couple of blobs, Kohli bounced back with a masterful half-century.
India vs South Africa Live Cricket Streaming for 1st ODI
While they will have their task cut out, so will their head coach, Gautam Gambhir, who oversaaw a shambolic surrender of the Test team against the potent South Africans earlier this week.
Teams:
South Africa (Playing XI): Ryan Rickelton, Quinton de Kock(w), Aiden Markram(c), Matthew Breetzke, Tony de Zorzi, Dewald Brevis, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Prenelan Subrayen, Nandre Burger, Ottneil Baartman
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Washington Sundar, KL Rahul(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep SinghPrasidh Krishna
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The unknown Kohli-Jansen duel
Early birds mostly get the worm, sometimes journalists landing on cricketing greens too soon also get rewarded. This is a story about the serendipitous sighting of an international cricket star. It also comes with a reminder – every acclaimed wicket-taker was once a modest net bowler. Like South Africa’s all-rounder Marco Jansen – the chief script writer of South Africa’s historic 2-0 Test against India – was once.
This week during the Guwahati Test, on a pitch more suited for spinners, Marco got wickets with his pace and bounce. He also smashed 7 sixes in his 91-ball 94 when most host batsmen struggled. READ MORE
