India captain Rahul Dravid won the toss and elected to bat in the third one-day international against West Indies.
India have the combination to lift their first ODI World Cup trophy in 28 years but the form of temperamental batsman Yuvraj Singh and explosive all-rounder Yusuf Pathan will prove decisive, says 1983 World Cup winning team's member Dilip Vengsarkar.
Check out detailed statistics of the Indian team for South Africa ODIs.
Senior batsman Yuvraj Singh was dismissed for a first-ball duck as Kerala stunned Punjab by 46 runs in a quarter-final match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
All-rounder Sanjay Bangar, who had opened the innings for India in the last seven Tests, has been dropped.
He has been advised to use crutches to take the load off the knee.
Following India's victory over England in the first Twenty20 International star batsman Yuvraj Singh dedicated his man of the match award to the girl who was gangraped in a moving bus in Delhi on Sunday night.
India's World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh, who is recovering from an non-malignant tumour in his lung, today said that he was targetting to be fit for the ODI tri-series in Australia in February next year.
Former chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil on Wednesday said that during his tenure there has been discussion on removing Mahendra Singh Dhoni from captaincy but his retirement from Tests was a "shocker" for them. Patil also clarified that there was no truth to the perception that Dhoni was instrumental in getting rid of some of the seniors in the Indian team like Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh.
Rohit Sharma will replace Yuvraj Singh in India's team for the third and final Test against the West Indies, beginning in Mumbai, on November 22. Middle-order batsman Sharma was rewarded for consistent performances in the domestic circuit.
"I was very nervous when I went out, I have never been a confident starter in Test cricket because I haven't played Test cricket," said the left-hander.
Kings XI Punjab captain Yuvraj said the fast bowlers will play a big role in this year's Indian Premier League since the Twenty20 tournament would be played on the fast pitches in South Africa.
All-rounder Yuvraj Singh will lead the Board of Control for Cricket in India's President's XI which will take on the visiting Australian team in the four-day warm-up game in Hyderabad, starting October 2. The BCCI, on Tuesday, also announced an India 'A' squad for the four-day matches against New Zealand 'A', in Chennai. It will be led by Suresh Raina.
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Yuvraj Singh on Saturday threw a clear hint that he would prefer a promotion in the batting order, but said he would leave it to his captain or coach to decide on his position in the team's line-up.
The seniors may no longer be the flavour of the season when it comes to Indian cricket but veterans Yuvraj Singh and Zaheer Khan are leaving no stone unturned to make an unlikely comeback to the team.
An unbroken double century partnership between the two batsmen helped India Seniors beat India A by seven wickets.
The dashing all-rounder dismissed claims that the coach's training is too harsh.
Yuvraj Singh is working hard on his left-arm slow bowling and expects to contribute with the ball too in the upcoming ICC World T20.
Yuvraj Singh has led Team India to many a memorable victory in the past. Who can forget his consistent contributions to India's triumph at the 2007 World T20 in South Africa and four years later at the 2011 50-over World Cup.
India's middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh reckons that his best years as a cricketer are "yet to come" and he will now strive to revive his Test career.
Yash Dayal's story is now one of resilience and redemption, proving that comebacks often speak louder than any setback.
Yuvraj scored 60 with seven boundaries and four sixes to lead North Zone to a seven wicket win over South Zone.
Yuvraj Singh says the upcoming ODI series against England will provide the hosts an opportunity to avenge the reverses they suffered in the Tests late last year.
Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly do not find a place in the preliminary list of candidates for the 2007 ICC awards.
India 'A'skipper Suresh Raina revealed that it was planned to get Yuvraj to bowl against Pietersen, who has this weakness against the left-arm spinners early on in his innings.
Photos from Day 1 of the warm-up game between India 'A' and England XI at the Brabourne stadium.
The Indian cricket team's trouble doesn't end with their ouster from Twenty20 World Cup with reports suggesting that some of the players were involved in a pub brawl here even though Yuvraj Singh dismissed the claim.
Speculations may be rife that Yuvraj Singh's career is nearing the end but chief selector MSK Prasad on Monday clarified.
The seasoned Yuvraj Singh was recalled to India's limited overs teams to lend solidity to an inexperience middle-order and ease the burden on Mahendra Singh Dhoni, captain Virat Kohli said in Pune on Saturday.
Spinner Shams Mulani (5/71) and Himanshu Singh (4/77) wreaked havoc by sharing nine wickets between them as defending champions Mumbai crushed Odisha.
Pune Warriors captain Yuvraj Singh has blamed his team's poor bowling, especially in the death overs, for his side's three-wicket loss to Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League in Navi Mumbai on Sunday.
Out of favour because of poor form and injury, Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh are hoping for a good showing with Delhi Daredevils this IPL season to return to the Indian team.
India captain Virat Kohli, senior batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni and stylish left-handed batsmen Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina, have found places in this year's ESPN World Fame 100 list that made its debut last year.
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