India captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat on a seamer-friendly wicket in the third Test against South Africa at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Wednesday. This is the first time since 2012 that India have gone into a Test without a spinner. The last time India played a Test without a spinner was in 2011-12 in Perth, Australia. Captain Faf du Plessis says they would have opted to bowl first had he won the toss. India: Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Hardik Pandya, Parthiv Patel (wicketkeeper), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami.

Source: dna January 24, 2018 08:15 UTC