India Tour of South Africa, 2018 – Schedule, Venues and Squads

India vs South Africa, 2018

India vs South Africa

The first Tournament of the year between India and South Africa starts from January 5 to February 24. The Tournament includes three series:

3 Match Test Series

6 Match ODI Series

3 Match T20I Series

Schedule: India vs South Africa Test Series

1^st Test: Jan 5 to Jan 9 at Newlands, Cape Town

2^nd Test: Jan 13 to Jan 17 at SuperSport Park, Centurion

3^rd Test: Jan 24 to Jan 28 at New Wanderers, Johannesburg

Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers

Schedule: India vs South Africa ODI Series

1^st ODI: 1^st Feb at Kingsmead, Durban

2^nd ODI: 4^th Feb at SuperSport Park, Centurion

3^rd ODI: 7^th Feb at Newlands, Cape Town

4^th ODI: 10^th Feb at Newlands, Cape Town

5^th ODI: 13^th Feb at St, George’s Park, Port Elizabeth  

6^th ODI: 16^th Feb at SuperSport Park, Centurion

Schedule: India vs South Africa T20 Series

1^st T20I: 18^th Feb at New Wanderers, Johannesburg

2^nd T20I: 21^st Feb at SuperSport Park, Centurion

3^rd T20I: 24^th Feb at Newlands, Cape Town

Squads:

Test Squad: India National Cricket Team

Virat Kohli(c), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Parthiv Patel, Jaspreet Bumrah

ODI Squad: India National Cricket Team

Virat Kohli(c), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Hardik Pandya, MS Dhoni, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shardul Thakur, Jaspreet Bumrah

South Africa Squad for the 1^st Test:

Faf du Plessis(c), Hashim Amla, Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock, Theunis de Bruyn, AB de Villiers, Dean Elgar, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, Morne Morkel, Dale Steyn, Chris Morris, Andile Phehlukwayo, Vernon Philander, Kagiso Rabada

Alastair Cook Retirement talks ahead of 150th Test

Sydney: Alastair Cook has “no idea” when he will be retiring and is completely focused on beating Australia in his 150th Test this week to keep the Ashes series alive, the former England captain said on Tuesday.

Alastair Cook

Cook, England’s most prolific Test run-scorer, has made 62 runs in four innings as the visitors have gone 2-0 down in the five-match Ashes series and some former players turned pundits have suggested he might be about to call time on his career.

Cook captained England on their last The Ashes tour Down Under when spinner Graeme Swann retired mid-series with the tourists 3-0 down and headed for a 5-0 whitewash.“I haven’t made any decision on anything. All my focus is on this game, the biggest of our lives coming up,” Cook said in Perth.

Former Australian paceman Mitchell Johnson and England batsman Kevin Pietersen have suggested that Cook had the look of a man who might be ready to hang up his bat.

”For the people who are saying that they’ve had no contact time with me,“ Cook, who is 33 later this month, said. ”They wouldn’t know the extranets I’ve been doing behind closed doors.

”I was with (my batting coach) yesterday for an hour-and-a-half in the morning, desperate to keep working on my game.

“That’s probably not a guy who’s given in. To be honest with you, I have no idea (when I’ll retire). And I’ve said that since I gave up the captaincy.”

The opener said retirement might not end up being his own choice if he continued to fail to make runs and said becoming the first England player to play 150 Tests was “quite special”, especially as the last 147 have been consecutive.

Cook has enjoyed an Ashes triumph in Australia in 2010-11 as well as the 2013-14 debacle and said the current party would not fail for want of trying.

“I will say this about this England side, I’ve never seen a side a work as hard as this side,” he said.

“Win, lose or draw, whether we play well or we play rubbish, the effort from the guys is unbelievable. There’s a group of men in there, 16 or 17 of them, desperate to do well.”

India vs Sri Lanka Paytm trophy 2017 1st test match

Sri Lanka Tour of India, 2017

India vs Sri Lanka Paytm trophy 2017 1st test match

Venue: Eden Gardens Kolkata

Toss: Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl first

Match drawn 

Man of the Match - Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Playing XI Sri Lanka:  
Dimuth Karunaratne, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Lahiru Thirimanne, Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Dasun Shanaka, Dilruwan Perera, Rangana Herath, Suranga Lakmal, Lahiru Gamage

Playing XI India:

Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami

Summary: India vs Sri Lanka

Day 1: The first day of the match was washed off due to rain, thereby only 11 overs were bowled.

Lankan bowlers used the favourable conditions better and had put India on backfoot at the end of day 1 by giving three early blows at the score of just 21, Suranga Lakmal took all the three wickets.

Suranga Lakmaal

Day 2: The second day of the match also delayed due to rain and started after the scheduled time.

Only 22 overs were bowled in a whole day and India at the end of the day was at 74 for 5.

Day 3: Unlike first two days those were washed off due to rain, the third day of the match had started on time.Pujara and Saha tried to put innings back on track.

Cheteshwar Pujara played a good knock at one end as the wickets are continuously fallen on the other end he completed his fifty and helped India to reach a total of 172.

India First innings – 172

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Cheteshwar Pujara	52	117	44.44
Wriddhiman Saha	29	83	34.94

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Suranga Lakmal	19	26	4
Lahiru Gamage	17.3	59	2

Sri Lanka National Cricket Team first innings:

Sri Lanka did not start well as Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave an early breakthrough of Karunaratne sending him back with a score of just 8. Samarawickarama gave a flying start to Lankan team and scored 23 of 22 balls before got out of Bhuvneshwar.

Angelo Mathews and Thirimane both scored watchful fifties and put Sri Lanka to take first innings lead.At the end of day 3, the score was 165 for 4.

Day 4: Chandimal and Dickvella started well before Dickwella got out with a score of 35 runs.

Rangana Herath played a good inning in the lower order of 67 runs helped Sri Lanka to take a lead of 122 runs.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Sri lanka first innings – 294

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Rangana Hearth	67	105	63.81
Angelo Mathews	52	94	55.32

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	27	88	4
Mohammed Shami	26.3	100	4

India National Cricket Team Second innings:

Shikhar Dhawan and Lokesh Rahul started well and gave India dominating start as both scored quick fifties and put Sri Lanka on backfoot.

Day 5: India did not start well on the fifth day as Lankan bowlers gave an early blow in the form of Rahul, pujara and Rahane put India on the backfoot in match saving mode from the attacking mentality.

In between the wickets were fallen continuously at the other end captain Virat Kohli played a mature innings scoring his 50^th international centuary helped india to take a decent lead of 230 and gave Sri lanka a target of 231 runs.

Virat Kohli

India second innings – 352-8

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Virat Kohli	104	116	81.03
Shikhar Dhawan	94	119	87.39

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Suranga Lakmal	24.4	93	3
Dasun Shanaka	22	76	3

Sri lanka second innings:

Indian bowlers put sri lanka on backfoot by giving them some early blows, bhuvneshwar and shami both tried hard to got them out and bowled at some good pace.

Sri lanka were  75-7 before the play of fifth day has been called off and an interesting match has been drawn as first two days were washed off due to rain.

Virat Kohli and Mohammed Shami

Sri Lanka second innings – 75-7

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Niroshan Dickvella	27	36	75.00
Dinesh Chandimal	20	33	52.17

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	11	08	4
Mohammed Shami	9.3	34	2

The Ashes, 2017-18

The Ashes

The Ashes series is starting from November 23, 2017, to January 8, 2018, in Australia including 5 test matches in different five venues. Last time England beat Australia by 3-2 in the 5 test match series.

Schedule 

• 1st Test - November 23 to Nov 27 at The Gabba, Brisbane
• 2nd Test - December 2 to Dec 6 at Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
• 3rd Test - December 14 to Dec 18 at W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth
• 4th Test - December 26 to Dec 30 at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne 
• 5th Test - January 4 to Jan 8 at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

Squads

 England Cricket Team

James Anderson

Alastair Cook, Mark Stoneman, Joe Root (C), Gary Ballance, James Vince, David Malan, Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Mason Crane, Chris Foakes, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, James Anderson (VC), Jake Ball, Craig Overton, Tom Curran

• James Anderson appointed Vice-Captain for the Ashes series in place of Ben Stokes.

Australia National Cricket Team for 1st and 2nd Test

Tim Paine

Steven Smith (C), David Warner (VC), Usman Khawaja, Peter Handscomb, Shaun Marsh, Tim Paine, Cameron Bancroft, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Jackson Bird, Chadd Sayers 

• After seven years break 32 years old Tim Paine got a surprise recall for the first two Ashes test. 

 

India vs Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Tour of India, 2017

India vs Sri Lanka, 2017

Upcoming series of India vs Sri Lanka starting from November 16 to December 24. Last time Sri Lanka has arrived in India in 2009 and they lost the three-match series by 2-0. They never won a single test match in India.

3 Test, 3 ODI, and 3 T20I

Schedule -

Test Series

1st Test - Nov. 16 to Nov. 20 at Kolkata

2nd Test - Nov. 24 to Nov 28 at Nagpur

3rd Test - Dec. 2 to Dec. 6 at Delhi

ODI Series

1st ODI - Dec. 10 at Dharamshala

2nd ODI - Dec 13 at Mohali

3rd ODI - Dec 17 at Visakhapatnam

T20I Series

1st T20I - Dec. 20 at Cuttack

2nd T20I - Dec. 22 at Indore

3rd T20I - Dec. 24 at Mumbai

India National Cricket Team Squad for Test Series

Rohit Sharma

Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Hardik Pandya, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma

Sri Lanka National Cricket Team for Test Series

Dinesh Chandimal (c), Dimuth Karunaratne, Dhananjaya de Silva, Angelo Mathews, Lahiru Thirimanne, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Rangana Hearth, Suranga Lakmal, Dilruwan Perera, Lahiru Gamage, Lakshan Sandakan, Vishwa Fernando, Dasun Shanaka, Niroshan Dickvella, Roshan Silva

Sri Lanka National Cricket team

• Sri Lanka was whitewashed by India in August this year at home, but they bounced back against Pakistan and beat them by 2-0 in UAE and broke Pakistan winning streak.
• Sri Lanka has never won a test match in India.
• Sri Lanka drops Kushal Silva and Kushal Mendis for India Tour.
• Rangana Hearth said, "winning a test match in India is one of my dreams."

India Team for ODI series

Rohit Sharma (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Axar Patel, Siddarth Kaul

Virat Kohli is not included in the One Day series by the selectors. Rohit Sharma gets the opportunity to lead team India. And Siddarth Kaul the fast bowler added to the squad.

India Team for T-20 series

Rohit Sharma (c), Lokesh Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Washington Sundar, Dinesh karthik, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Basil Thampi, Jaydev Unadkat

Sri Lanka Team for ODI series

Thisara Perera(c), Upul Tharanga, Danushka Gunathilaka, Lahiru Thirimanne, Angelo Mathews, Asela Gunaratne, Niroshan Dicwella, Chaturanga de Silva, Akila Dananjaya de Silva, Suranga Lakmal, Nuwan Pradeep, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dushmantha Chameera, Sacith Pathirana, Kusal Perera

India vs New Zealand 2nd T-20I

New Zealand Tour of India, 2017

Ind vs NZ

India vs New Zealand 
New Zealand won the Toss and elected to bat first
NZ - 196-2 (20 overs)
Ind - 156-7 (20 overs)
NZ won the match by 40 runs and levels the series by 1-1
Man of the Match - Colin Munro

• Mohammed Siraj going to play his debut game today, only one change made by Virat Kohli.
• For New Zealand, there are two changes Adam Milne is in place of Tim Southee and Glenn Phillips comes in the place of Tom Latham.

Summary

Colin Munro

• Colin Munro's hundred helped New Zealand to reach a good fighting total. 
• Martin Guptill and Colin Munro gave the good start to the team.
• Bhuvneshwar and Bumrah did their best in the death overs and restricts visitors below 200.
• New Zealand dominated Indian team with the bat and with the ball too. Took the wickets of Rohit and Shikhar in the second over and put India in trouble.
• Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli took the responsibility and played some good shots. Then the man of the first innings Colin Munro gave a breakthrough, took the wicket of Shreyas Iyer.
• After that Hardik Pandya again failed to judge Ish Sodhi' delivery, got out after scoring 1 run. 
• Virat Kohli looks dangerous and played great shots, the partnership with Dhoni going well Then Santner comes to attack and took Virat Kohli's wicket and make sure their victory.
• Trent Boult took 4 wickets, send off both Indian openers in his very first over and Ish Sodhi was very economical for blackcaps, conceded only 25 runs in 4 overs.

Ish Sodhi

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Colin Munro	109	58	187.93
Martin Guptill	45	41	109.76

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	4	29	2
Mohammed Siraj	4	53	1

Trent Boult

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Virat Kohli	65	42	154.76
MS Dhoni	49	37	132.43

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Trent Boult	4	34	4
Ish Sodhi	4	25	1