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Third T20I: SA win toss, elect to bowl; Kohli out with stiff back

The series is tied at 1-1

rohit-sharma-wanderers-afp Rohit Sharma plays a shot during the first T20I match between South Africa and India at Wanderers cricket stadium in Johannesburg | AFP

South Africa skipper J.P. Duminy won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the third and final Twenty20 International.

India were forced to leave out Virat Kohli, who has stiff back and he has been replaced by Dinesh Karthik. India have brought back paceman Jasprit Bumrah, leaving out Jaydev Unadkat. The visitors have also dropped Yuzvendra Chahal and replaced him with left-arm spinner Axar Patel.

South Africa have also made two changes as they replaced J.J. Smuts and Dane Patterson with Christiaan Jonker, who will make his debut, and Aaron Phangiso.

In the first match, a brilliant all-round show helped visitors beat hosts South Africa by 28 runs at Johannesburg. In the second one, South Africa, who lost the One-Day International (ODI) series 1-5, kept the T20I series alive by registering a six-wicket victory at Centurion.

Teams:

India:

Rohit Sharma (C), Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Axar Patel and Shardul Thakur.

South Africa:

J.P. Duminy (C), Reeza Hendricks, David Miller, Heinrich Klaasen, Farhaan Behardien, Christiaan Jonker, Andile Phehlukwayo, Aaron Phangiso, Chris Morris, Junior Dala, Tabraiz Shamsi.