T20 WC final: Rohit Sharma opts to bat first against South Africa
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Bridgetown, Barbados: In Saturday's T20 World Cup final here, Rohit Sharma, the Indian captain, won the toss and chose to bat against South Africa. After winning their respective groups and Super Eight rounds, both teams have had an incredible undefeated run in the tournament.
While India are playing their third final of the T20 World Cup, with their last appearance in the 2014 edition and having won the inaugural edition in 2007, it is for the first time that the Proteas team has made it to the summit clash of an ICC tournament, PTI reported.
Both teams named unchanged eleven.
Teams: India: Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.
South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi.
