India vs South Africa 3rd Test Day 1 Highlights – Jan 24, 2018

India vs South Africa 3rd Test Day 1 Highlights – Jan 24, 2018

SA v IND highlights today – Third freedom test day one from The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg (South Africa) Wednesday 24th January 2018. As we know India Already lost three test matches series by losing first two of them, now it’s the must-win game to prove that they are world’s no 1 team. The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg cricket stadium highest total is 652/7d scored by Australia in 2002 against the home team. South Africa highest total of the venue is 620 against Australia in 1996. South Africa highest total on the ground against India is 450/7, scored in 2013, in reply India scored 421 runs. AB de Villiers going on top of the list in most runs scorer of this series so far with 200 runs in four innings, V Kohli 191 and F du Plessis 173. VD Philander took ten wickets, Mohammed Shami took nine and K Rabada took also nine wickets so far.




India won the toss and elected to bat.
India team/playing XI
1 M Vijay, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Virat Kohli (capt), 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Parthiv Patel (wk), 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Mohammed Shami, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Ishant Sharma.

South Africa team/playing XI
1 Dean Elgar, 2 Aiden Markram, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Faf du Plessis (capt), 6 Quinton de Kock (wk), 7 Andile Phehlukwayo, 8 Vernon Philander, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Lungi Ngidi.

Match Timings: 10.00 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 17.00




The pitch at Wanderers is unmistakably green. The head groundsman Bethuel Buthulezi might be tempted to not shave any of the 6mm grass because there is rain expected on every day of the Test. The sun has beaten down in the lead-up to the Test to create some cracks, but it has also helped the groundstaff roll the pitch nice and hard. Faf du Plessis said his side didn’t ask for anything over the top but a track with pace and bounce. Kohli expected the pitch to do more than the one at Newlands for the first Test. There are some cracks on offer, but it is possible overhead conditions will play an equally important role in this Test. Indications are that Ajinkya Rahane and Bhuvneshwar Kumar seem set to make their way back into the side, but at whose expense? The men under threat are Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin (because of the pitch) and one out of Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah. Don’t count against an all-seam attack. Parthiv Patel, ordinary with the big gloves in Centurion, could lose out to Dinesh Karthik, who doesn’t have too much long-format match practice behind him: he only played four first-class matches in the 2017-18 domestic season, and only kept wicket in two of them. There has been talk, that South Africa might go without a spinner – as they have done in their two previous Tests at the Wanderers – and beef up their batting, but the injury to Temba Bavuma might have changed the equation a little bit. If Keshav Maharaj is indeed left out, it could open the door for batsman Theunis de Bruyn or allrounder Andile Phehlukwayo. Chris Morris is away on paternity leave. Aiden Markram, who was off the field for parts of the Centurion Test with a left quad strain, is fit and will open.

India tour of South Africa 3rd Test Highlights

Umpires – Ian Gould, Aleem Dar
TV Umpires – Michael Gough
Match Referee – ?
Reserve Umpire – Adrian Holdstock
Match number – Test no. 2294