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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