Thursday, March 29, 2012

India-South Africa T20 - Celebrating history for two years in a row!


TodayIndia and South Africa clash in a one and only Twenty20 international cricket match at the Wanderers Stadium today with India the reason is steeped in history: the 150th anniversary of Indians landing in South Africa.

Indian teams here in Johannesburg on Wednesday with a near full strength T20 squad, with batsman Virender Sehwag and fast bowler Zaheer Khan the only key players being rested.

South Africa, have picked only eight of the squad which won a T20 series in New Zealand last month.
India, though, will be led as usual by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Fletcher said the Indian team contained a significant number of young players.
"We've been trying to develop a young one-day squad and Twenty20 squad," he said. "These blokes have played well on the subcontinent and any game they play out of it must be very good from an experience point of view."
The squads (from):

South Africa: Johan Botha (capt), Farhaan Behardien, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Richard Levi, Albie Morkel, Justin Ontong, Wayne Parnell, Rusty Theron, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk) and Dane Vilas (wk).

India: M.S. Dhoni (capt, wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ashok Dinda, Gautam Gambhir, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Suresh Raina, Rahul Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary and Robin Uthappa.

Play begins at 16.30 BST on Friday 30th March.

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