India vs South Africa Live: After the series defeat, Virat Kohli and Co aiming to bounce back in Johannesburg 3rd Test match to get into the track. This is not the best start for India, but still, they need to focus on team picks and battling lineup to tackle the upcoming ODI series and T20 match in South Africa. One of the boosts fact to the Indian fans is India never lost a test match at Johannesburg. Can India maintain their unbeaten Wanderers record?
Coming to the summary of the first two test matches, team India batting lineup got collapsed in the fourth innings especially. If a couple of players were able to get a half-century, the results would have been changed tremendously as India lost both the matches by a few margin. Virat Kohli’s team pick in under a huge criticization, as most of them blamed him for excluding B Kumar from the second test playing 11.
India vs South Africa Livescore – 3rd Test Match at Johannesburg
Toss: Team India won the toss and decided to BAT first.
India 1st Innings Score – 187/10
SA – 6/1
Day 1 Summary: India lost their openers too early. KL Rahul gone for a duck and M Vijay gone for 8. Kohli has gone for 54. Pujara 50, Bhuvi 30. SA lost Markram and ends Day 1 with 6/1.
Match Status & Result:
India vs South Africa Playing 11 for 3rd Test
India Lineup:Â 1 M Vijay, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Virat Kohli (capt), 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Parthiv Patel (wk), 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Mohammed Shami, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Ishant Sharma.
SA Lineup:Â 1 Dean Elgar, 2 Aiden Markram, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Faf du Plessis (capt), 6 Quinton de Kock (wk), 7 Andile Phehlukwayo, 8 Vernon Philander, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Lungi Ngidi.
Squad Summary: For India, No spinners. Rahane in for Rohit. Bhuvneshwar in for Ashwin. For SA, Andile Phehlukwayo coming in for Keshav Maharaj.
India vs South Africa (IND vs SA) Live Streaming 3rd Test Match
India vs South Africa live streaming will be telecasted on Sony Ten network channel. The match will start at 1:30 PM and the live coverage begins at 12:30 PM. Even though this is not a series decider match, quite an important match for Team India to get back in the track to handle team South Africa in ODI’s and T20 as well as to save their never defeated in Johannesburg record.