IND vs SAF 1st ODI Preview at Durban - India v South Africa First One Day Teams

After fighting longest version and one sided shortest versions, its now time for limited over series as first One Day of the 5 match series between host South Africa and India will be played on Wednesday, 12th January, 2010 at Kingsmead, Durban in a day-night game and timing will be 12:30 GMT, 14:30 local, 18:00 IST.

India is high in confidence after winning the only T20 comfortably and they will definitely miss Sehwag and Gambhir but the return of Zaher Khan and Tendulkar, who is playing first one day after scoring record breaking double century in Gwaliar against South Africa only will boost them to take lead in the series. R Ashwin and Munaf Patel will fight for the final spot depending upon the pitch.

South Africa will try to do well as Graem Smith again going to lead and hope the forms of Hashim Amla and de Villiers continues along with Duminy. Colling Ingram will replace injured Jacques Kallis. All eyes will be new bolwer Imran Tahir if included in the playing 11.

India playing 11 for 1st ODI at Durban:

Sachin Tendulkar, M Vijay, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Harbhajan Singh, R Ashwin/Munaf Patel, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra

South Africa playing 11 for 1st ODI at Durban:

Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Colin Ingram, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis/Robin Petersen, David Miller, Johan Botha, Dale Steyn, Wayne Parnell/Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne Morkel