India hope to maintain a strategic distance from whitewash in Jo'burg Test

Johannesburg [South Africa], Jan. 24: India will play South Africa in the unimportant third Test at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Wednesday and will hope to dodge a 3-0 whitewash in the arrangement.

India has a decent record at the Wanderers. They have played four Tests at this setting, and never lost in any.

Vagabonds offers a green pitch which will be useful to the Indian crease bowlers and the two sides may select to not play a spinner here.

India have been fruitful in taking 20 wickets in the past Tests yet had a poor show with the bat.

Signs are that subsequent to confronting a great deal of fire for not playing right-gave batsman Ajinkya Rahane, in spite of a decent abroad record, he may advance again into the playing XI.

Pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who was dropped in the last Test at the Centurion, may likewise be once more into the side at the cost of spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.

The Virat-Kohli drove side has just been under flame for the arrangement misfortune and along these lines would endeavor to win the closing Test match to abstain from being recognized as the main side from India to endure a whitewash in South Africa.

The hosts, then again, will hope to influence a decisive victory to draw near to get the No. 1 Test group positioning and vindicate the 2015-16 Test crush from India.

South Africa (likely): Dean Elgar, Aiden Markram, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Theunis de Bruyn/Andile Phehlukwayo/Keshav Maharaj, Vernon Philander, Kagiso Rabada, Morne Morkel, Lungi Ngidi

India (Probable): Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (c), Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya, Parthiv Patel/Dinesh Karthik (wk), R Ashwin, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah.