India Vs South Africa: Kohli's men are confident, Raina back

India and South Africa now gear up to play three T20 Internationals at Johannesburg, Centurion and Cape Town over the next one week.

India would want to repeat the same performance and as they did in Last ODI. Along with the star players like Virat Kohli Sikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma, However, India is expected to have 31-year-old left-hander Suresh Raina.

He last played a T20 International for India year ago against England, in February 2017.

After spending a year working on his fitness, the Uttar Pradesh cricketer is back in the reckoning and can be expected to play the first T20 against South Africa.

The hosts team South Africa have completely revamped the T20I squad including as many as six new players in the 14-man side which will face India in the T20I series starting with the first game in Johannesburg on Sunday.

Compare to ODI this format is completely different and we are looking forward to perform well instead of making same mistakes.

"I think the new faces will help. The format is different. It is a quicker and more aggressive format. And it will naturally bring out the best in us," said Duminy.

While talking about the loss in the previous match, Captain Duminy said, "Yes, it has been a dismal one-day series for us where India have outplayed us. That's something that we will have to take off and realise that we are far from a finished article going into the World Cup a year from now.

South Africa have rested many of their front-line batsmen and bowlers for this T20 series. However, AB de Villiers is the one senior name still available and the Proteas will count on him to produce the goods.

South Africa will also have to deal with top order, particularly Virat who is in form. Shikhar Dhawan also in good form, while Rohit Sharma can't be ignored when it comes to T20.

However, One-day captain Aiden Markram, who dealt with the unwanted responsibility in the absence of some senior cricketers, admitted that the hosts had used the ODI series to execute their rotation policy.

Before the sixth ODI, coach Ottis Gibson had mentioned that South Africa would take a hard look at their own poor performances in the One-day series.

India:

Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli(c), Lokesh Rahul, Hardik Pandya, MS Dhoni(w), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Manish Pandey, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, J Unadkat, Shardul Thakur.

South Africa:

Jean-Paul Duminy (c), JJ Smuts, Christiaan Jonker, Junior Dala, Farhaan Behardien, AB de Villiers, Reeza Hendricks, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), David Miller, Chris Morris, Dane Paterson, Aaron Phangiso, Andile Phehlukwayo, Tabraiz Shamsi.