India tour of South Africa: CSA releases updated schedule starting with Boxing Day Test in Centurion : Rashtra News
Cricket South Africa on Monday released the updated schedule for the upcoming home series against India, that has been pushed back by a week due to the Omicron variant threat in the Rainbow nation.
South Africa will host India for a series of 3 Tests and 3 ODIs for now while the T20I series comprising 4 games will be played at a later date.
The Test series will start on Boxing Day (December 26) as opposed to the original date of December 17. The SuperSport Park in Centurion will host the first Test while the second and third games will be played at the Wanderers in Johannesburg (January 3-7) and Newlands in Cape Town (January 11-15), respectively.
The teams will also contest in a three-match One-Day International Series between Jan. 19-23, with the first two games played in Paarl and the third in Cape Town.
The first two Tests will start at 13-30 IST (10-00 SAST) while the third will begin at 14-00 IST (10-30 SAST). All the ODIs will start at 14-00 IST (10-30 SAST), the CSA confirmed.
The Test series will form part of the new cycle of the ICC World Test Championship, while the ODIs will form part of the ICC Men’s World Cup Super League, the qualification tournament for the 2023 ICC Men’s World Cup.
UPDATED SCHEDULE
The dates for the upcoming #SAvIND tour have been revised. The tour has been reduced to 3 Betway Tests and 3 Betway ODIs
Full list of fixtures https://t.co/ZCJDr7nsXL#BetwayTestSeries #BetwayODISeries #BePartOfIt pic.twitter.com/KWrZ0GuUzB
— Cricket South Africa (@OfficialCSA) December 6, 2021
“It is a pleasure for Cricket South Africa (CSA) to confirm the updated schedule for the India men’s tour to South Africa.
“As announced over the weekend, the tour has been reduced from three series to two; the Betway Test and One-Day International series, taking place from 26 December to 23 January 2022 across four venues, following successful engagement with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI),” CSA said in its statement.
The updated schedule is as follows:
26-30 December 21 | 1st WTC Test vs India | SuperSport Park, Centurion
03-07 January 22 | 2nd WTC Test vs India | Imperial Wanderers, Johannesburg
11-15 January 22 | 3rd WTC Test vs India | Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town
19 January 22 | 1st ODI vs India | Eurolux Boland Park, Paarl
21 January 22 | 2nd ODI vs India | Eurolux Boland Park, Paarl
23 January 22 | 3rd ODI vs India | Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town.
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