Indian cricketers Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana, and Navdeep Saini arrived in South Africa on December 16th, for IND vs SA Test series, starting on December 26 in Centurion. While Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravichandran Ashwin are part of India’s Test squad, Navdeep Saini and Harshit Rana have been included in India A squad for intra-squad three-day and third four-day matches.
The Indian Test contingent will kickstart their Test preparations with a three-day Intra-squad match, starting on 20th December. The two-match Test series will begin on Boxing Day in Centurion.
Notably, Team India are yet to win a Test series in rainbow nation, having suffered a 2-1 defeat during their last tour.
India Inter-squad three-day match: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Abhimanyu Easwaran*, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, KS Bharat (wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Pulkit Narang, Harshit Rana, Shardul Thakur, Sourabh Kumar, Manav Suthar, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini.
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, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Prasidh Krishna.
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