Arshdeep Singh, Rishabh Pant, Deepak Chahar and Ravichandran Ashwin made a return to the playing eleven as India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first against South Africa in the T20I series opener at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday.

After winning the toss, Rohit revealed that in India's three changes from the eleven which won the series against Australia in Hyderabad, left-arm pacer Arshdeep and left-handed batter Pant come in as Hardik Pandya and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have been rested from the series.