Indian eves choose to field first against South Africa: Centurion T20I

Centurion (South Africa), Feb 21 The Indian women cricket team won the toss and chose to field first in the significant fourth T20I of the five-match series against South Africa at the SuperSport Park in Centurion here on Wednesday.

For India, medium-pacer Rumeli Dhar has come back to the Indian squad after a long hole of six years.

Prior, India took an early lead in the five-match T20I series when they won the first two matches by seven and nine wickets, separately.

In any case, the Women in Blue failed to benefit from it and allowed South Africa to keep the series alive by drooping to a five-wicket vanquish against the hosts in the third T20I in Johannesburg.

Heading into the fourth match, the guests will hope to wrap up the T20I series by taking an unassailable 3-1 lead, something which will make the Hamanpreet Kaur-drove side the first to have won two arrangement on a solitary voyage through South Africa.

Prior, India had secured the three-match ODI series 2-1 against South Africa.

South Africa women, then again, would be a substantially more certain unit this time around and would by and by expect to depend on seamer Shabnim Ismail, who took her first T20I five-wicket haul in the past match.

The two squads are as per the following:

India Playing XI: Harmanpreet (c), Mandhana, Mithali Raj, Krishnamurthy, Gayakwad, Deepti Sharma, Rodrigues, Dhar, Vastrakar, Bhatia (W), Poonam Yadav.

South Africa Playing XI: Lizelle Lee, Mignon du Preez, Dane van Niekark (c), Chloe Tryon, Chloe Kapp, Sune Luus, Raisibe Ntozakhe, Masabata Klaas, Ismail, Nadine de Klerk, Moseline Daniels.