Virat Kohli will find that some things in South Africa don't change with a costume switch. India haven't won a bilateral ODI series against their hosts, dating back to the 'Friendship Series' of 1992-93. Although there are enough fresh faces to the squad to dissipate any residual feelings of disappointment from a "mentally draining" Test series, the win in Johannesburg will ensure that what comes from hereon is not defined by what has now been settled.
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And it is the 'what comes now' that both Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli highlighted with much gusto ahead of the series. The World Cup 2019 in England is now only a little over a year away and both teams will begin setting a plan in motion for the big event. This includes a mental shortlisting of a smaller pool of about 18-20 cricketers, from where the World Cup 15 is most likely to come from. Both Ottis Gibson and Ravi Shastri, with their respective captains, will also need to identify the '
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