Team India will face South Africa within the first T20I of the 3-match collection on Sunday (December 10) on the Kingsmead, Durban. Riding excessive on confidence after a profitable collection win towards Australia at house, India have loads of new faces within the lineup wanting to show a degree.
There have been 24 T20 International matches between India and South Africa in complete, with an general head-to-head document that favors India. Only one IND vs. SA T20I match has completed in a draw; Team India leads the head-to-head document 13–10 versus South Africa.
India vs South Africa 1st T20I Weather Report
According to Weather.com, there’s a 55% likelihood of rain in Durban within the morning and afternoon as we speak. But after 4 PM, there is no hazard of rain. At 83%, the humidity might be excessive. All day lengthy, the temperature will hover between 18 and 21 levels.
Suryakumar is assured that India’s younger workforce would adapt simply to South Africa‘s exhausting and bouncy pitches, and he lauded the workforce’s work in profitable the T20I collection towards Australia earlier than travelling to the Rainbow Nation.
“I think the key to success on such wickets will be to be yourself. The boys have prepared well. We are coming from a good T20I series win and have played on all fast tracks and all batters have played on such wickets. They will enjoy playing here in South Africa,” Suryakumar mentioned within the pre-series press convention.
Suryakumar emphasised his want for the workforce to keep up the “fearless” method that gave them success within the house collection, echoing what he mentioned through the Australia collection.
“The players put their hands up against Australia and came up with fearless cricket, and we need to play the same against South Africa. I just told them to do exactly what they do in franchise cricket,” he mentioned.
Suryakumar, who has preferred his captaincy to this point, emphasised that the collection was essential for India as a result of they solely had six extra T20Is earlier than the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup subsequent yr. However, the captain dismissed fears that the absence of matches would hamper India’s preparations for the worldwide occasion.
“I feel there are limited T20s going forward, before the T20 World Cup, but then we play 14 league games in the IPL as well,” Suryakumar mentioned.
“And players who have been playing in these T20 internationals… they’ve played a lot of games, and they have a lot of experience under their belt. So, we don’t think there will be an issue or any problem in selecting the squad because everyone knows their roles really well and responsibilities really well,” he added.
Wake up…. it is a large one this afternoon.
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The skipper didn’t reveal any particulars about India’s probably lineup for the collection opener on Sunday, however he did say that the squad knew who will open the innings in Durban tomorrow.
“We have the combination in mind. We know who are going to open tomorrow, and perhaps, will take a final call after the practice session today,” the skipper mentioned.
India’s squad for 3 T20Is: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (C), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (Wk), Jitesh Sharma (Wk), Ravindra Jadeja (VC), Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar and Deepak Chahar.
