After the toss, KL Rahul was seen exclaiming “yess” and making a fist pump. (BCCI Photo)

NEW DELHI: India captain KL Rahul was elated and couldn’t hide his emotions after winning the toss in the third and final ODI against South Africa at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. India had lost the toss 20 times in a row before today’s match, and luck finally swung back their way when KL Rahul walked out and won it. The last time India had won the toss in an ODI was during the CWC 2023 semi-final against New Zealand at Wankhede.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!After the toss, KL Rahul was seen exclaiming “yess” and making a fist pump.

“We’ll bowl,” KL Rahul said.“We trained here last night and the feedback from the coaches was that there was dew, but it didn’t come in as early as Ranchi and Raipur. We were obviously planning to bowl second, keeping our track record in mind. I don’t think it’s going to play such a big part like Raipur and Ranchi. But, we just want to change the total and see how we can bowl first.It looks like a good wicket. For me and from the leadership group, we’re really happy with the way we played in the last two games. I know from the outside, 360 being chased down looks like a lot is going wrong. But considering the conditions and considering the way our teams are lined up, I think we did really well. There’s a lot of positives to take and I’m really happy with the way we bowled and batted. The chat obviously has been to keep doing the same thing and stay consistent with what we’re doing and stay consistent with that process. We know that the results will follow. Not many things that we’re looking to change. Just trying to sharpen a couple of things in the field and the results will go our way,” he added.“One change. Washington Sundar misses out and Tilak Varma comes in,” the Indian skipper confirmed.On the other hand, South Africa captain Temba Bavuma made two changes to his side.Watch the video here“We would have bowled first. A good start upfront will set it up for the middle order, we’ll try and put a competitive score on the board and then hopefully defend it. It’s been entertaining, hasn’t it? From the red ball stuff now to the white ball stuff. The crowd has come out and I’m sure they’ll be rooting for the Indian side. Today is another important one and like always, we’ll do our best to make sure we’re on the right side of the result,” Bavuma said.“We’ve got two changes. Rickelton and Baartman come in. Both of them (Burger and de Zorzi) sustained injuries in the last ODI, I think they’ll be out for a couple of weeks. It’ll give another opportunity for Baartman and Rickelton to deliver,” he added.South Africa (Playing 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 BaartmanIndia (Playing 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