SA elect to bowl against India in 1st T20I; Gill, Hardik return

Cuttack, Dec 9 (PTI) South Africa skipper Aiden Markram won the toss and elected to bowl in the first T20I of the five-match series here on Tuesday.

Markram said he elected to bowl with the dew factor in mind.

For India, T20 vice-captain Shubman Gill and all-rounder Hardik Pandya returned to the eleven, having missed some of the recent action with respective injuries.

Teams: India: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.

South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk), Aiden Markram (captain), Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Donnovan Ferreira, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Lutho Sipamla, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi. PTI UNG AM UNG AM AM