Guwahati: South Africa captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and elected to bat against India in the second Test here Saturday.
South Africa lead the two-match series 1-0 after winning the first Test in Kolkata by 30 runs.
Rishabh Pant replaced Shubman Gill as India’s captain after the latter was ruled out of the contest due to a neck injury, which he suffered in the first Test.
India made two more changes with B Sai Sudharsan and Nitish Kumar Reddy coming in for Gill and Axar Patel.
South Africa made one change with Senuran Muthusamy replacing Corbin Bosch.
Teams:
India: KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, B Sai Sudharsan, Dhruv Jurel, Rishabh Pant (c&wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.
South Africa: Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton, Wiaan Mulder, Temba Bavuma (c), Tony de Zorzi, Tristan Stubbs, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Marco Jansen, Senuran Muthusamy, Simon Harmer, Keshav Maharaj.
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