South Africa's stand-in captain Jacques Kallis won the toss and sent India in to bat in the first one-day international at the Sawai Man Singh stadium in Jaipur.
India were without bowling spearheads Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh, and frontline batsmen Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh, for the opening game of the three-match series
Harbhajan was given permission to miss the first two matches due to his sister's wedding, while the other three were injured.
South African captain Graeme Smith opted out of the one-dayers with a finger injury sustained during the Test series, which ended 1-1 last week.
India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik, Yusuf Pathan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Ravindra Jadeja.
South Africa: Jacques Kallis (capt), Herschelle Gibbs, Loots Bosman, AB de Villiers, Alviro Petersen, Johan Botha, Mark Boucher, Charl Langeveldt, Albie Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Dale Steyn
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