SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF INDIA 2019-20

In  September and October 2019 South Africa cricket team play three Tests and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches in India. The Test series will come under the ICC World Test Championship 2019–21. After this series South Africa return to India in March 2020 to play three One Day International(ODI) matches.

In August 2019,South Africa  Cricket team confirmed that in Test matches Faf du Plessis would lead the team, while in  T20I Quinton de Kock named as the captain of the team. Later the same month, as per the request of the Jharkhand Cricket Association requested that there are celebrations of Durga Puja on the second week of October in Ranchi,due to the puja Committee of Administrators (CoA) agreed to switch the venues of the second and third Tests. Pune, which was originally scheduled to host the third Test, will now host the second Test, while Ranchi will now host the third Test match.

Squads

As per the information South Africa announced their Squad for Test as well as for T20I. India announced their squad only for T20I,in which team lead by Virat Kohli .For test matches Faf Du Plessis lead the team.In T20I Quinton de Cock Captain of the team. Ahead of the tour, Rudi Second was ruled out of South Africa's Test squad due to injury. He was replaced by Heinrich Klaasen.

Test		ODIs		T20Is
India	South Africa	India	South Africa	India	South Africa
	Faf du Plessis (c) Temba Bavuma (vc) Theunis de Bruyn Quinton de Kock (wk) Dean Elgar Zubayr Hamza Heinrich Klaasen (wk) Keshav Maharaj Aiden Markram Senuran Muthusamy Lungi Ngidi Anrich Nortje Vernon Philander Dane Piedt Kagiso Rabada Rudi Second (wk)			Virat Kohli (c) Rohit Sharma (vc) Khaleel Ahmed Deepak Chahar Rahul Chahar Shikhar Dhawan Shreyas Iyer Ravindra Jadeja Manish Pandey Hardik Pandya Krunal Pandya Rishabh Pant (wk) K. L. Rahul Navdeep Saini Washington Sundar	Quinton de Kock (c, wk) Rassie van der Dussen (vc) Temba Bavuma Junior Dala Bjorn Fortuin Beuran Hendricks Reeza Hendricks David Miller Anrich Nortje Andile Phehlukwayo Dwaine Pretorius Kagiso Rabada Tabraiz Shamsi JJ Smuts

T20I Series

MATCH	VENUE	LOCATION	DATE
1st	Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association	Dharamshala	15th September,2019
2nd	Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium	Mohali	18th September,2019
3rd	M.Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bengaluru	22nd September,2019

Test Series

MATCH	VENUE	LOCATION	DATE
1st	Dr.Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium	Visakhapatnam	2-6 October,2019
2nd	Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium	Pune	10-14 October,2019
3rd	JSCA International Cricket Stadium	Ranchi	19-23 October,2019

ODI Series

MATCH	VENUE	LOCATION	DATE
1st	Himachal Pradesh Cricket Stadium	Dharamshala	12th March,2020
2nd	Ekana International Cricket Stadium	Lucknow	15th March,2020
3rd	Eden Gardens	Kolkata	18th March,2020

In the history of cricket both teams played very well against each other.