Children's cricket returns to Chennai, making India the favorites.

Great picture: Can South Africa problem cheerful India?

It's been a while but children's cricket eventually returns to Chennai. Both teams are unfamiliar with the conditions: India have n't played here since a Quadrangular Series in 2007, South Africa have only played one match in Chennai, a T20 World Cup game in 2016.

However, India enters this meet having defeated both those top teams in a Test against England and Australia in December of last year. India's spinners were important in those wins, and that will also be a great advantage for the home team going into this Test in what are expected to be spin- pleasant conditions.

India's sources have just increased in the last several weeks. They handed lady contact- ups to various players and have had four players train at the National Cricket Academy specifically for the reddish- ball format, boasting depth in both batting and bowling departments. In the December Checks, their offspinners Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma both had match-winning hands, and their pitchers both recorded two 400-plus pitches in the first two wickets. Most of the global players even played in the Senior Women's Inter- radial multi- time line in March- April.

India may also feel assured in the Test despite their International set victory over South Africa. Their foundation Smriti Mandhana showed great kind, while the likes of Deepti and Arundhati Reddy blazed with the basketball.

South Africa, on the other hand, may be playing their second Evaluation of the year, having suffered an pitches beat against Australia in February in Perth. Additionally, they lack high-quality training prior to this Check. The style is not part of their domestic system and South Africa also had just a couple of days to adjust to the problems. Over the past two days, they did huge net matches against Tamil Nadu's Under-14 and Under-16 boys teams, where they had more roll than pace.

South Africa commander Laura Wolvaardt said on the day of the Test that adapting to the game" staying small and turning a little" will be the "biggest problem". Nonkululeko Mlaba, who was the team's left-arm spin option, is the other option, according to Marizanne Kapp, who added Sune Luus, who likewise bowled offspin in the next ODI, did also play.

All things considered, it is edge India going into the single Exam.

Form Guide

India WWD ( last three matches, most recent first )
South Africa LDL

In the spotlight: Deepti Sharma and Laura Wolvaardt

Deepti Sharma has recently been in excellent all-around type. In the Test against England, she picked up a match drag of 9 for 39, which included great numbers of 5 for 7 in the first pitches. She even scored a 67 in that activity in a prominent American batting screen. Deepti followed that up with a report of 78 and two innings against Australia. She was in top form in private cricket when also, taking 27 wickets and scoring 157 runs in three games in the Inter- radial multi- day Trophy for East Zone.

South Africa has benefited greatly from the leadership of Captain Laura Wolvaardt for a long time. But she's been batting at a distinct stage since last year: she statistics 68.21 in Wickets with five decades and three thirties, and 49 in T20Is with seven half- generations. She will play a vital role for South Africa in the Tests with scores of 135* and 61 in her previous two Wickets against India.

Team reports: India good to go with Shubha at No. 3

Satheesh Shubha, who played the England Test in December, is likely to gambling in at No. 3. Renuka Singh had a plate at the nets the day before the test, but he was sidelined for the previous two Batsmen against South Africa. According to Harmanpreet Kaur, India had consider Renuka's "workload."

India ( probable XI ): 1 Smriti Mandhana, 2 Shafali Verma, 3 Satheesh Shubha, 4 Jemimah Rodrigues, 5 Harmanpreet Kaur ( capt ), 6 Richa Ghosh (wk ), 7 Deepti Sharma, 8 Sneh Rana, 9 Pooja Vastrakar, 10 Rajeshwari Gayakwad/ Saika Ishaque, 11 Renuka Singh

Kapp, who did not play South Africa's Test against Australia earlier this year, is likely to gambling up in. She, however, did not dish in the ODI line next year. With the T20 World Cup quickly approaching, Wolvaardt claimed at the click meeting that Kapp was "managing her task and taking it on a daily basis." Sinalo Jafta, who did not play the next two Wickets after she suffered a minor injury, has trained all week and is available for selection.

South Africa ( probable XI ): 1 Laura Wolvaardt ( capt ), 2 Anneke Bosch, 3 Marizanne Kapp 4 Sune Luus, 5 Tazmin Brits, 6 Delmi Tucker, 7 Nadine de Klerk, 8 Sinalo Jafta (wk ), 9 Nonkulueko Mlaba, 10 Masabata Klaas, 11 Tumi Sekhukhune

Ball and conditions: Hope spin to play a major role

The Chepauk area is renowned for being spin- and slow-friendly. A reddish- land band will be used for the match, and Harmanpreet expects it to begin spinning "from the second or third day". On the day of the test, there was a cloud cover, but the game is safe from rain.

Stats that matter: Mandhana in sight of a milestone

Mandhana is just 20 away from scoring 500 runs in Tests. If she succeeds, she will be the ninth woman's batter from India to reach that milestone.

Deepti has played four Tests and has a fifty in each of those. She averages 63.40 with the bat and 13.75 with the ball. The average difference of 45.65 is the second best among allrounders with 300- plus runs and 15- plus wickets

Chennai has hosted only one women's Test before this- India vs West Indies in 1976

Kapp made her Test debut in 2014's Mysore match between the two teams. That was one of the only two Tests she would play in ten years