Cuttack: South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl first against India in the first T20I of the five-match series here at the Barabati Stadium, Cuttack.

Markram said he elected to bowl with the dew factor in mind.

For India, T20 vice-captain Shubman Gill and all-rounder Hardik Pandya returned to the eleven, having missed some of the recent action with respective injuries.

Teams:

India: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.

South Africa: Kinton of Kock (wk), Aiden Markram, Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, David Miller.