While many big names from Mumbai are set to miss the tournament, the one stalwart who will be taking part is India's Test batsman Ajinkya Rahane, who will be part of the North Mumbai Panthers.

The visitors lost both the Tests, though Rahane returned in the third match to help India claim a consolation victory.

Prior to this series, Rahane was being dubbed as the reserve opener as team management experimented with a number of batsmen at that position but things have changed after his half-century in the opening game coming at number four.

Du Plessis said that the conditions were a bit slower and suited the Men in Blue quite well as the batting line-up hammered away after the Proteas set up an easy target of 270 for the Virat Kohli led Team India.

Kohli scored 112 off 119 balls with the help of 10 boundaries and put on 189-run stand for the third-wicket with Ajinkya Rahane (79 runs of 86 balls) as India chased down the target of 270 with 4.3 overs to spare.

The Indian captain notched up his 33rd ODI hundred and once again justified his tag of 'world's best chaser' with yet another superlative knock in the first ODI against South Africa in Durban.

The No 1 ODI batsman is now 16 centuries short of Sachin Tendulkar's record of 49 ODI hundreds.

Kohli said that there is already a core group of players in place, and only the number four spot really needs to be sorted out.

According to Sehwag, middle-order batsman, Manish Pandey should get more changes ahead of the 2019 ICC World Cup.

Kohli's selection decision came under the scanner in the Test series and Holding too was critical of his chop-and-change policy which saw him play a different XI in each of the 35 Tests.

Wessels feels that while Virat Kohli can still try to strike a balance in his aggression, his style of leadership can't be questioned as long as he gets the results for India.

The day 3 of the third Test between South Africa and India was called-off early after a discussion by the match umpires with the respective team captains following the incident where a back of a length delivery from Bumrah hit Elgar on his helmet.

Eyeing a consolation victory in South Africa, Rahane might get a chance in the third Test at Johannesburg.

Rohit's failure to live upto the expectations and the Indian batting's inability to stand upto the South African pace attack in the preceding matches attracted widespread criticism, forcing the team management to rethink about Rahane.

Ajinkya Rahane was not picked for the first two Tests, with the Indian team management instead preferring to go with limited overs specialist Rohit Sharma on "current form".

Prabhakar slammed India's team selection in the ongoing Test series, saying it is a shame to pick players for a Test match based on their form in limited over cricket.

Preferred over vice-captain Rahane, Rohit Sharma failed miserably as he managed to score just 78 runs in four innings in South Africa.

According to Bedi, another baffling decision was to drop pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar after a six-wicket haul in the first Test in Cape Town.

Virat Kohli feels that despite the mistakes committed, his batting unit is in much better shape for this game.

India lost the first Test by 72 runs within four days, with Vernon Philander wreaking havoc with his pace and swing.