South Africa vs India, Tests ODIs T20s: Schedule, squads, match-timings, live stream
Here's your complete guide for India's tour of South Africa 2018.
Mumbai: Heading into the New Year having won nine bilateral series, Team India will face their biggest test when they face South Africa in the first Test at Cape Town in South Africa.
Virat Kohli’s India, who is top-ranked in the ICC Test Rankings, look to shed the tag of poor travellers as their status as the top-ranked nation faces a stern examination. The star Indian batting line-up consisting the likes of Murali Vijay, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan will have a big task to prove on pace-friendly South African wickets.
India’s dominance, which has been attributed to their home form last faced such similar conditions during the tour of Australia in 2014-15. India went down 2-0 in the series and since then have played just one out of its 10 series outside Asia.
The Proteas, who are the closest challengers to India at the top of the Test rankings, have a full-strength squad as they are boosted with a return of several key players. AB de Villiers returns after a two-year absence from first-class cricket, while the bowling attack will witness the comeback of Morne Morkel and Vernon Philander.
The visitors will also confident about their bowling line-up which has far more bite than the teams that have toured previously. Can Kohli’s men replicate their home dominance overseas or will their abysmal away record once again continue to haunt them?
The three-match T20 series will be followed by six ODIs and three T20s that will stretch towards February.
Here are all the details of India's tour of South Africa 2018 -
Schedule and venues:
Squads:
India Test Squad: Virat Kohli(c), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Parthiv Patel, Jasprit Bumrah
India ODI Squad: Virat Kohli(c), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur
South Africa Test Squad - 1st Test: Faf du Plessis(c), Hashim Amla, Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock, Theunis de Bruyn, AB de Villiers, Dean Elgar, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, Andile Phehlukwayo, Vernon Philander, Kagiso Rabada, Dale Steyn
Where you can witness the live action:
The live telecast of the matches will be aired on Sony Ten1/Ten3 and the cricket fans can watch the live streaming on SonyLIV.