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First T20I: South Africa win toss, elect to field against India

| @indiablooms | Feb 18, 2018, at 11:18 pm

Johannesburg, Feb 18 (IBNS): South African captain JP Duminy won the toss and elected to field first in the first T20I match against India at the New Wanderers in Johannesburg on Sunday.

Jaydev Unadkat, Suresh Raina and Manish Pandey are playing the match for India.

Kuldeep Yadav is not playing the match due to his thumb injury.

South African key player AB de Villiers is not playing the match due to his knee injury.

Heinrich Klassen and Junior Dala are making debut for South Africa in the shortest format of the game.

The match is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. IST.

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