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    "excerpt": "Visakhapatnam, Oct 2.\u00a0India captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test of the three-match series against South Africa beginning Wednesday at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium. I",
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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Visakhapatnam, Oct 2.&nbsp;<\/strong>India captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test of the three-match series against South Africa beginning Wednesday at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIndia had already announced their playing XI on Tuesday in which they included Wriddhiman Saha as their wicketkeeper in place of Rishabh Pant.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;(It was) No brainer that we are going to bat. It looks a good wicket. We will like to play well for the first couple of days. The nature of the pitch is that it&#39;ll get slower after that,&quot; Kohli said after winning the toss.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;It&#39;s a great opportunity for Rohit Sharma at the top of the order. He&#39;s excited to get the role clarity. It&#39;s a new opportunity for him.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;According to me, (Wriddhiman) Saha is the best keeper in the world. We were waiting for the right moment to bring him back.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;They had more experienced players back then. It&#39;s going to be a hard grind for sure,&quot; he added.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;Our coin toss record in the subcontinent isn&#39;t the best. The first innings is going to be very important. We&#39;ve lost a few Test players, even in the last year or so. It&#39;s a fresh start for a lot of new faces. It&#39;s a very young group,&quot; said Proteas skipper Faf du Plessis.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;These guys will be the next Dale Steyns and the next Hashim Amlas. Good to be at the start of the journey for them, have to try and play a mentorship role to get them through. The dryness of the surface, we&#39;ve gone in with two seamers, one all-rounder, and three spinners,&quot; he added.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nPlaying XI<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>India<\/strong>: Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>South Africa:<\/strong> Aiden Markram, Dean Elgar, Theunis de Bruyn, Temba Bavuma, Faf du Plessis(c), Quinton de Kock(w), Vernon Philander, Senuran Muthusamy, Keshav Maharaj, Dane Piedt, Kagiso Rabada<\/p>\r\n",
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