India's tour of South Africa: The Indian cricket team departed from Bengaluru on Tuesday night for their tour to South Africa where they are scheduled to be in action in all three formats.
India and South Africa will face off in three T20I matches and as many ODIs before playing a two-match Test series.
The Men in Blue, including Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, head coach Rahul Dravid, and Mohammed Siraj among others departed from Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru for the tour.
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VIDEO | Indian cricket team left for South Africa from Bengaluru earlier today. The Indian team will tour South Africa from December 10 to January 7 to play 3 T20Is, 3 ODIs and 2 Tests.#INDvsSA pic.twitter.com/ez4mBMaR5k
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) December 6, 2023
Young batting sensation Rinku Singh, pacer Arshdeep Singh, and Kuldeep Yadav shared a joint post on Instagram captioning the picture, “En route SA.”
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All-rounder Tilak Varma, pacer Mohammed Siraj, and fielding coach T. Dilip also posed for a picture.
The tour will commence with the first T20I which will be played on Sunday, December 10 and the series will run till December 14.
The ODI leg of the white-ball series will start which will conclude on September 21 before India will aim for their maiden Test series win on South African soil.
Seniors like skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Jasprit Bumrah will miss the white-ball leg of the all-format series but will return for the Test series.
Suryakumar Yadav, who recently captained the young Indian team in the five-match T20I series against Australia at home, will lead the T20I team while KL Rahul will be captaining the ODI team.
Youngsters like Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, Sai Sudarshan, and Rajat Patidar have received maiden call-ups for the ODI squad.
Talking about the Test series, the first Test will commence on December 26, and the second Test at Cape Town on January 3 next year.
Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Monday announced their squads against India for the multi-format series at home, beginning December 10.
Aiden Markram will be leading the T20I and ODI squads, while the Test squad will be led by Temba Bavuma.
Pace bowler Nandre Burger and batters David Bedingham and Tristan Stubbs received their maiden call-ups for the Test team with Kyle Verreynne also making a return.
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Bavuma and fast bowler Kagiso Rabada have been rested from the white-ball series.
India's squad for Tests: Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (Wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami*, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Prasidh Krishna.
India's squad for 3 T20Is: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (C), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (Wk), Jitesh Sharma (Wk), Ravindra Jadeja (VC), Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar.
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India's squad for 3 ODIs: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sai Sudharsan, Tilak Varma, Rajat Patidar, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (C) (Wk), Sanju Samson (Wk), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mukesh Kumar, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Deepak Chahar.