Durban: Part-timers Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina helped India claw their way back in the first ODI against South Africa as the hosts once threatened to go well past 300 but eventually finished with 289 at the Kingsmead Durban.
Earlier, South African captain Smith won the toss and elected to bat.
The Proteas left out Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir and Robin Peterson while Piyush Chawla, Ravichandran Ashwin and S Sreesanth are the ones to miss out for the Indians.
India will to want to rectify their poor record against the Proteas when it comes to playing in South Africa, having won 3 and lost 16.
India were thumped 4-0 in the one day series on their last tour of South Africa in 2006-07.
Teams:
India: S Tendulkar, M Vijay, V Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, R Sharma, S Raina, MS Dhoni (capt), M Patel, Harbhajan Singh, A Nehra, Z Khan
South Africa: G Smith (capt), H Amla, C Ingram, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, D Miller, J Botha, W Parnell, L Tsotsobe, M Morkel, D Steyn
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