Group India’s stand-in captain KL Rahul celebrated and punched the air as India ended their 21-match toss drought within the third ODI match in opposition to South Africa on Saturday, December 6.

New Delhi: Group India’s stand-in captain KL Rahul celebrated and punched the air as India ended their 21-match toss drought within the third ODI match in opposition to South Africa on Saturday, December 6. The group in Vizag was surprised earlier than erupting in cheers, whereas the Indian gamers joined within the celebration following Rahul’s profitable toss.

Rahul opted to bowl first and stated, “Yeah, I feel you (Murali Kartik) ought to do extra tosses. We need to bowl first. Somewhat bit, we skilled right here final night time. There was dew but it surely didn’t come as quickly because it did at Ranchi or Raipur. I don’t assume it will play as a lot of a task because it did within the earlier video games. However yeah, we wished to chase a complete and see how we are able to bowl first,” stated Rahul.

🚨 INDIA WON A TOSS IN ODI CRICKET. 🚨

– The celebration from captain KL Rahul. 🤣pic.twitter.com/Zca4HnYu3V

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) December 6, 2025

The Indian gamers and even the commentators joined within the light-hearted second. Harshit Rana and Arshdeep Singh had been noticed celebrating, whereas Sanjay Bangar jokingly steered that Rahul’s toss success got here from flipping the coin together with his left hand.

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India final gained a toss again within the 2023 World Cup semi-final

India had final gained a toss again within the 2023 World Cup semi-final in opposition to New Zealand in Mumbai. On this collection, the toss has performed an essential position, with dew closely influencing situations. Since batting second is usually simpler underneath lights, Rahul wasted no time in opting to bowl first after lastly profitable the toss.

India made one change, bringing in Tilak Varma rather than Washington Sundar, whereas South Africa changed injured Nandre Burger and Tony de Zorzi with Baartman and Ryan Rickelton

India’s taking part in XI -Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, KL Rahul(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna

South Africa’s taking part in XI– Ryan Rickelton, Quinton de Kock(w), Temba Bavuma(c), Matthew Breetzke, Aiden Markram, Dewald Brevis, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Ottneil Baartman