India vs South Africa T20i series: Starts November 8.
India and South Africa will be up against each other for the first time after the T20 cricket World Cup final on 29 June 2024, where India won a close thrilling match and became the world champion for the second time. And this time team India is traveling to South Africa to play a 4 match t20i series, but this time the scenarios will be different as after the T20 World Cup campaign, 3 of the Indian senior men Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja took retirement from the format. So, South Africa will be up against the confident and young India team led by Suryakumar Yadav who had already cleaned Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in a T20i series. On one hand where India will be facing South Africa in a 4 match t20i series, a bunch of senior men will be traveling to Australia to prepare themselves for the upcoming Border Gavaskar Trophy a 5-test match series against Australia, which is very crucial after getting clean sweep at home by New Zealand, India has to win at least 4 matches out of 5 to directly qualify for the final of WTC without depending on the others. The India tour to South Africa for a four-match t20i series will be starting from 8th November. There will be four different stadiums for the four matches, the matches will be played in Durban, Gqeberha, Centurion, and Johannesburg. This would be quite a challenge for the young Indian team led by Suryakumar Yadav.
Schedule for India tour of South Africa:
1st T20I: India vs South Africa 8th November
2nd T20I: India vs South Africa 10th November
3rd T20I: India vs South Africa 13th November
4th T20I: India vs South Africa 15th November
India squad for South Africa tour:
Suryakumar Yadav (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (WK), Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Avesh Khan, Yash Dayal.
India vs South Africa series streaming rights:
The India vs South Africa T20i series will be telecasted on Sports 18 on TV and people can also watch the series on the ott platform which is Jio Cinema for free.