When: January 21, Start time 14:30 local (12.30 GMT, 18.00 IST)
Pitch: Helps spin bowling.
Stats: South Africa won the first ODI & India won the next Two. India LEAD the series 2-1.
India look to gain First Ever Limited over series victory in South African Soil!.
South Africa has three games out of last 5, where as India has lost just 1.
Team News:
India: With NO Sachin Tendulkar, India's replacement would be Parthiv Patel & Murali Vijay would open the Innings. With seniors like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir missing from the squad, youngsters who have been doing good, have the responsibility to get India a historic victory. In a pitch which aids spin, Piyush Chawla who was selected to Indian World cup sqad after a two years of ODI break might get a chance to prove that he was the right selection.
Meanwhile South African Captain Graeme smith has said "Hopefully it (World Cup squad announcement) frees up a lot of players and makes them play with the sort of freedom in the next few games," . He also spoke about the less margin loss in the last two games & was quite confident to bounce back.
Teams(Probables):
India: 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 MS Dhoni (captain & wk), 7 Yusuf Pathan, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Piyush Chawla / Ashish Nehra, 10 Munaf Patel, 11 Zaheer Khan
South Africa: 1 Graeme Smith (captain), 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Colin Ingram, 4 AB de Villiers (wk), 5 JP Duminy, 6 Faf du Plessis, 7 Johan Botha, 8 Dale Steyn, 9 Wayne Parnell / Imran Tahir, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Lonwabo Tsotsobe
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Dhoni says Harbhajan is an all-rounder, Yusuf a finisher in the making.





