IND Tour of SA: BCCI has released the schedule, matches will start on December 10
IND Tour of SA: After the World Cup, India will tour South Africa in December. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) released its schedule on Friday. India will play three T20, three ODI, and two Test match series with South Africa. The Test match series will be the Freedom Series, which will be played for the Gandhi-Mandela Trophy. All the matches will be played in six venues.
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IND Tour of SA: The tour will start with T20 on December 10 in Durban
The tour will start with T20 on 10 December in Durban. After this, the second T20 will be played in Gkebra on 12 December and the third T20 match will be played in Johannesburg on 14 December. The ODI series will start in Johannesburg on 17th December and after that, the Test series will start in Centurion from 26th December.
Freedom series will be organized in honor of two great leaders
After the release of the schedule, BCCI secretary Jay Shah said that the Freedom Series is important not because it features two great teams, but because it is being organized in honor of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Two great leaders who inspired our respective countries and the world. The Boxing Day Test and the New Year Test are among the most important events in the international cricket calendar.
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This will be the program–
10 December – 1st T20I – HollywoodBets Kingsmead Stadium, Durban
12 December – 2nd T20I – St. George’s Park, Gkebaraha
14 December – 3rd T20I – DP World Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
17 December – 1st ODI – DP World Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
19 December – 2nd ODI – St George’s Park, Gakebarha
21 December – 3rd ODI – Boland Park, Paarl
26-30 December – 1st Test – Supersport Park, Centurion
3-7 January – 2nd Test – Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town
