Team India lands in South Africa for multi-format series tour

Team India received a warm welcome as they landed in the Rainbow Nation ahead of the India vs South Africa T20 International series 2023 starting on Sunday They also posed with their supporters as they arrived in DurbanAlso ReadNZ vs BAN Three maiden callups to New Zealand squad for ODI seriesThe Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI posted a video on X formerly Twitter in which players were seen arriving at a South African airport and being greeted warmly by hotel staffSouth Africa bound TeamIndia are here SAvIND pictwittercomV2ES96GDw8mdash BCCI BCCI December 7 2023The allformat tour of South Africa will kickstart on Sunday with a threematch T20I series which will go on till December 14 From December 17 the ODI leg of the whiteball series will start which will conclude on September 21The Men in Blue including Suryakumar Yadav Ruturaj Gaikwad Shreyas Iyer Yashasvi Jaiswal head coach Rahul Dravid and Mohammed Siraj were among others seen in the videoAlso ReadInterschool cricket Giles Shield hit by overage protestTeam Indias star players Rohit Sharma Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah will not feature in the India vs South Africa T20 International series 2023 The number one T20I batsman Suryakumar Yadav will lead the side ahead of the T20Is against Proteas The Men in Blue defeated Australia in the recent fivematch T20I series under Suryakumar Yadavs captaincyIn ODIs the Indian team will clash with South Africa under KL Rahuls captaincy Youngsters like Rinku Singh Tilak Varma Sai Sudarshan and Rajat Patidar have received callups for the ODI squadSenior players will return for the twomatch Test series with the first Test in Centurion from December 26 onwards and the second Test at Cape Town from January 3 next year This redball leg of the series will be the most anticipated one for Indian fans as India are yet to register a Test series win in South AfricaCricket South Africa CSA on Monday announced their squads against India for the multiformat series at home beginning from Sunday Speedster Nandre Burger and batters David Bedingham and Tristan Stubbs received their maiden callups to South Africas Test squad for the India series wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne has also been added to the squadIndias 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 KrishnaIndias 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 ChaharIndias 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 ChaharWith ANI Inputs