Toss India selected to bat vs South Africa
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur received the toss and selected to bat in opposition to South Africa within the fifth match of their T20I tri-series in East London. The guests had pace-bowling allrounder Pooja Vastrakar making a comeback to the facet after recovering from an unspecified damage that had stored her out of motion since final October, as left-arm seamer Amanjot Kaur was ignored.
South Africa additionally made a solitary change, with senior tempo bowler Shabnim Ismail returning instead of Masabata Klaas after lacking out on the primary three video games of the collection. Ismail had final performed a T20I in August final 12 months.
Each India and South Africa, with 4 factors every from two and three matches to this point respectively, have already certified for the ultimate of the tri-series, to be performed subsequent week. That they had additionally confronted one another within the collection opener on January 19, when India received by 27 runs.
India stay unbeaten within the collection, with West Indies – the third staff – already eradicated with a recreation left. Thus, at present’s outcome in addition to India’s match in opposition to West Indies on Monday may have no impact on the 2 finalists.
South Africa: 1 Laura Wolvaardt, 1 Tazmin Brits, 3 Marizanne Kapp, 4 Sune Luus (capt), 5 Chloe Tryon, 6 Annerie Dercksen, 7 Nadine de Klerk, 8 Sinalo Jafta (wk), 9 Shabnim Ismail, 10 Tumi Sekhukhune, 11 Nonkululeko Mlaba
India: 1 Smriti Mandhana, 2 Yastika Bhatia (wk), 3 Harleen Deol, 4 Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), 5 Jemimah Rodrigues, 6 Devika Vaidya, 7 Deepti Sharma, 8 Pooja Vastrakar, 9 Radha Yadav, 10 Shikha Pandey, 11 Rajeshwari Gayakwad
