Team India to take final call on Playing XI on Wednesday

With less than 24 hours to go Team India will once again take guards, this time against South Africa for the three-match T20I series having beaten Australia 2-1 on Sunday. With dust yet to settle on the famous win in Hyderabad, the South Coast will once again be India's home for the curtain-raiser encounter on Wednesday as Temba Bavuma's Proteas army marches on. 

Ahead of the clash, the likes of Arshdeep Singh and Risabh Pant will have their hearts in their mouth over a place in the Playing XI, with the former returning after resting against the Aussies. Pant on the flip side will



likely warm the Indian bench as Dinesh Karthik is once again expected to get the nod.

The Indian batting coach Vikram Rathour on Tuesday evening in his press conference asserted that the management will choose the Playing XI on Wednesday. 

"We are working on that area of getting better at defending targets. But to be fair to our bowlers, toss plays a vital role and every time we have not been able to defend are the places where there has been dew, so it gets easier to chase," Rathour said on the eve of the first T20I against South Africa here on Wednesday.