India win toss and bowl in third ODI

India captain, KL Rahul, won the toss and chose to bowl first in the third and deciding one-day international against South Africa at the VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Saturday.

Batsmen Tony de Zorzi and fast bowler Nandre Burger were both unavailable for selection due to hamstring injuries with their places being taken by Ottneil Baartman and Ryan Rickelton respectively.

India made one change from the team which was beaten by four-wickets in the second game on Wednesday with South Africa chasing down a daunting target of 359. India won the first match by 17-runs. Batsman Tilak Varma is preferred to allrounder Washington Sundar.

Virat Kohli scored centuries in both of the first two games and his record in seven ODIs at this venue reads: 118, 117, 99, 65, 157*, 0, 31.

INDIA: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, KL Rahul (captain/wkt), Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna

SOUTH AFRICA: Quinton de Kock (wkt), Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton, Temba Bavuma (captain), Matthew Breetzke, Dewald Brevis, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Ottneil Baartman.