All-time combined India-South Africa ODI XI

India and South Africa have fought some epic ODI battles in the last two decades. Both the nations have played some hard-fought cricket on the field which has entertained the fans from both the nations. There has been no shortage of skill and determination from both the sides whenever these two teams have met on the cricketing field.The reason behind these epic battles is the quality of players from both the sides.The fast bowling battery from South Africa against a long quality Indian batting lineup has all the ingredients for a mouth-watering contest.So let’s try and envisage an ODI XI with stars combined from both the teams in our all-time combined Ind-SA ODI XI.

#1 Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar will open the innings 

One name that will remain constant in any ODI XI that will contain players from India is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. Arguably the best batsman world has ever seen after Sir Don Bradman, no eulogy seems sufficient for the master blaster.

Tendulkar opened the innings for India in 344 matches. He scored 15310 runs at an average of 48.29 with 45 ODI centuries. Against South Africa, Sachin played 57 ODIs and scored 2001 runs at an average of 35.73.

The first double hundred in ODIs by the great man also came against the Proteas.What is amazing about the great man is that his record didn’t take a beating even after playing so many matches. He will lead the batting in our team.