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.”