D. Gambhir's playing-11 for the first test from Africa, took surprising decisions, also fielded four pacers

The two-match Test series between India and South Africa is starting from Tuesday in Centurion. South Africa is a country where the Indian team has never won any Test series. However, this time to create history, Team India has geared up and is preparing vigorously.

The last time the Indian team toured South Africa, the team was different and was captained by Virat Kohli. However, this time the captain will be Rohit Sharma. In such a situation, discussion has started on social media regarding the best playing-11 of Team India. Fans are discussing whether the Indian team should go with two spinners or just one spinner.

Who will play between Ashwin and Jadeja?
As far as SENA countries (S- South Africa, E-England, N-New Zealand and A-Australia) are concerned, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja have not played many matches together. In such a situation, former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir believes that only one of the two spinners will get the approval of the team management.

Speaking to a sports channel, Gambhir selected his playing-11 for the first Test between India and South Africa. Gambhir chose Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal as the opening pair, while he chose Shubman Gill for the number three position.

Shubman could not do anything special at number three
Since Yashasvi's debut and Cheteshwar Pujara's exit from the team, Shubman has been batting at number three, but he has not got much success at this position. This year, while batting at third position on the West Indies tour, Shubman scored 6, 10 and 29 not out in three innings. He needs to improve his batting at this position. Due to the kind of competition there is between the players for a place in the playing-11, they may also have to face difficulties.

Gambhir chose this player as wicketkeeper
Gambhir chose veteran Virat Kohli for the fourth position and preferred Shreyas Iyer at the fifth position. Gambhir gave a new role to KL Rahul for the sixth position. Along with batting, he was also given the responsibility of wicketkeeping. It is certain that Rahul will be seen doing wicketkeeping in the Test series, because the other wicketkeeper KS Bharat has not had any record in Tests till now. At the same time, even during the net session, Rahul was seen wearing wicket-keeping gloves. Gambhir feels that either Jadeja or Ashwin will be at number seven, while he said that Team India will take the field with four fast bowlers.

These fast bowlers were given place in the playing-11
The fast bowling quartet for Gambhir includes Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj. Mohammed Shami, who could have made a place in the team, is not available for this Test series due to injury. Gambhir decided to bench the emerging fast bowler Mukesh Kumar.

A total of 42 Tests have been played between India and South Africa so far. Of these, India has won 15 and South Africa has won 17 Tests. 10 matches have been drawn. India's record in South Africa has been poor. Team India has played 23 Tests on African soil and won only four. He has faced defeat in 12. Seven tests have been drawn.

Gautam Gambhir's playing-11 for the first Test against South Africa: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja/R Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna. , Mohammad Siraj.