<p>Cuttack: South Africa skipper Aiden Markram won the toss and elected to bowl in the first T20I of the five-match series here on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Markram said he elected to bowl with the dew factor in mind.</p>.<p>For India, T20 vice-captain Shubman Gill and all-rounder Hardik Pandya returned to the eleven, having missed some of the recent action with respective injuries.</p>.IPL 2026 Auction: Total purse available for each team.<p>Teams: </p><p>India: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.</p>.<p>South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk), Aiden Markram (captain), Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Donnovan Ferreira, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Lutho Sipamla, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi. </p>
<p>Cuttack: South Africa skipper Aiden Markram won the toss and elected to bowl in the first T20I of the five-match series here on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Markram said he elected to bowl with the dew factor in mind.</p>.<p>For India, T20 vice-captain Shubman Gill and all-rounder Hardik Pandya returned to the eleven, having missed some of the recent action with respective injuries.</p>.IPL 2026 Auction: Total purse available for each team.<p>Teams: </p><p>India: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.</p>.<p>South Africa: Quinton de Kock (wk), Aiden Markram (captain), Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Donnovan Ferreira, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Lutho Sipamla, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi. </p>