South Africa win toss, ask India to bat

By IANS

Belfast (Northern Ireland) : South Africa won the toss and asked fever-hit India to bat first in the first of the three-match Future Cup One-day International series here Tuesday.


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Most of the Indian players are suffering from viral fever but they managed to put together the XI for the match at the Civil Service Cricket Club ground in Stormont.

First choice wicket keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and pacer Sreesanth were missing from the XI because of poor health.

Teams:

India: Rahul Dravid (captain), Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Dines Karthik (wicket-keeper), Rohit Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Ramesh Powar, Zaheer Khan and Rudra Pratap Singh

South Africa: Jacques Kallis (captain), A.B. de Villiers, M.N. van Wyk, Herschelle Gibbs, J.P. Duminy, Mark Boucher (wicket-keeper), Andrew Hall, V.D. Philander, Charl Langeveldt, Andre Nel and Makhaya Ntini

Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and Mark Benson (England)
TV umpire: Billy Bowden (New Zealand)
Match referee: Alan Hurst (Australia)

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