India to play two Tests on all-format tour of South Africa in 2023-24

South Africa will start their 2023-2025 World Take a look at Championship cycle with a two-Take a look at sequence towards India at residence later this yr. The Exams will happen over the normal Boxing Day and New Yr interval, at SuperSport Park and Newlands respectively. The New Yr’s Take a look at returns to Cape City after a four-year absence following the Covid-19 pandemic and South Africa enjoying in Australia over final yr’s festive season.

The Exams shall be South Africa’s first since beating West Indies 2-0 at residence in March this yr, and the second of India’s WTC marketing campaign, following their ongoing matches within the West Indies. The Exams will come on the finish of a tour that may start with three T20Is, and also will embrace three ODIs.

South Africa’s huge 5 venues – Kingsmead, St George’s Park, the Wanderers, SuperSport Park and Newlands – together with Paarl’s Boland Park will all get a style of the motion however there aren’t any matches deliberate within the nation’s central area, which incorporates Bloemfontein and Kimberley. Durban, the place a big proportion of the Indian diaspora in South Africa is predicated, will solely host one match, the primary T20I.

“This is a crucial tour for each groups and I’m actually happy that we are going to have a full tour comprising all three codecs of the sport,” Lawson Naidoo, CSA chair, mentioned in a press release. “The tour additionally permits us to showcase the very best of South Africa and we’ve unfold out matches throughout the nation.”

“The Boxing Day Take a look at and the New Yr Take a look at are amongst a very powerful fixtures on the worldwide cricket calendar and the schedule has been deliberate significantly round these marquee dates,” Jay Shah, the BCCI secretary, mentioned.

The India sequence would be the solely males’s worldwide cricket performed in South Africa within the 2023-24 summer season – South Africa host Australia for 3 T20Is and 5 ODIs in August-September – and shall be adopted instantly by the SA20. In mid-February, South Africa are as a consequence of journey to New Zealand for 2 Exams earlier than a mid-year sequence within the Caribbean. South Africa will solely play two-Take a look at sequence in the course of the 2023-2025 WTC cycle, with their subsequent three Take a look at sequence set for October 2026, after they host Australia.