India vs South Africa 1st ODI Highlights: IND beat SA by 8 wickets

India vs South Africa Live Score 1st ODI, IND vs SA: Reeza Hendricks, Tony de Zorzi, Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), David Miller, Andile Phehlukwayo, Keshav Maharaj, Nandre Burger, Tabraiz Shamsi, Lizaad Williams, Wiaan Mulder, Ottniel Baartman, Mihlali Mpongwana, Kyle Verreynne

India vs South Africa Live Score 1st ODI, IND vs SA: Rajat Patidar, Sai Sudharsan, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w/c), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Tilak Varma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Akash Deep

India vs South Africa Live Score 1st ODI, IND vs SA: Temba Bavuma, Marco Jansen, Gerald Coetzee and Kagiso Rabada are not involved in this match. This means that there will be some open positions for youngsters. Nandre Burger made his international debut in the third T20I and he is expected to play today.

India vs South Africa Live Score 1st ODI, IND vs SA: One of the most iconic stadiums, and probably among the most intimidating for away teams, India have played eight times at the Wanderers. They have recorded just three wins and only one of those was against South Africa.

India vs South Africa Live Score 1st ODI, IND vs SA: Ruturaj Gaikwad is reportedly down with fever and thus could be ruled out of the game today. He had been unable to play the T20I series of the tour due to the same reason.

India vs South Africa Live Score 1st ODI, IND vs SA: Rahul is a mainstay in the ODI squad but the same can't be said in the Indian T20I or even Test teams, which are the two formats that have big tournaments and matches in the immediate future. He is hence at that strange stage where he is pretty much the obvious choice to captain India in ODIs in Rohit Sharma's absence but is hardly a frontrunner for a spot in the T20I and Test teams.

India vs South Africa Live Score 1st ODI, IND vs SA: Shubman Gill has had quite an extraordinary year in ODI cricket but he won't be playing in this series as he has been rested for the Tests. But this also means that he misses out on a chance to topple one of Sachin Tendulkar's many batting records. Gill ends 2023 with 1584 ODI runs at an average of 63.36. Three more innings may have given him an outside chance to go past Sachin Tendulkar's record tally of 1894 from 1998.

India vs South Africa Live Score 1st ODI, IND vs SA: This tour has followed a peculiar trend in the last three series. While they have all been one-sided, South Africa have won two of them while India have one. South Africa won 2-0 and 3-0 in 2013-14 and 2021-22, and in between India won 5-1 when they visited in 2017-18.

India vs South Africa Live Score 1st ODI, IND vs SA: The first time these two sides met in an ODI series was in South Africa's tour of India in 1991/92, their first international series since readmission. It was a three-match series which India won 2-1. The two sides have faced each other 91 times in ODI cricket. South Africa have won 50 of those matches while India won 38. Three games have ended without a result.

South Africa squad: Reeza Hendricks, Tony de Zorzi, Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), David Miller, Andile Phehlukwayo, Keshav Maharaj, Nandre Burger, Tabraiz Shamsi, Lizaad Williams, Wiaan Mulder, Ottniel Baartman, Mihlali Mpongwana, Kyle Verreynne.

India squad: Rajat Patidar, Sai Sudharsan, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w/c), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Tilak Varma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Akash Deep.

Team India is hoping to register their first series win over the Proteas in the multi-format tour to the rainbow nation. After an impressive World Cup 2023, wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul has returned to lead the Rohit Sharma-less side for the entire ODI series. The upcoming contest at the Wanderers on Sunday is also India's first ODI against the Proteas since the 2023 World Cup.