IND vs SA: Team India begins training session in Durban ahead of first T20I

Posted On: December 8, 2023

The Indian team wasted no time after reaching Durban in South Africa and began training on Friday for the first T20I of the three-match series. BCCI released group team photos from its official account

Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma were rested for the white-ball format and will rejoin the squad ahead of the first Test.

After the climax of the T20I series on December 14 in Johannesburg, the three-match ODI series will begin on December 17 at the same venue. India will then also play a two-match Test series, starting December 26 at the Centurion Stadium. Meanwhile, Team India will go on a month-long tour with 47 different players, carefully selected in different formats.

Indian team for South Africa tour

Indian squad for Tests: Rohit Sharma (Centre), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (Week), KL Rahul (Week), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami*, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Prasidh Krishna.

Indian squad for 3 T20Is: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (center), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (week), Jitesh Sharma (week), Ravindra Jadeja (VC), Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar.

Indian squad for 3rd ODI: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sai Sudharsan, Tilak Varma, Rajat Patidar, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (C) (week), Sanju Samson (week), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mukesh Kumar, Avesh Khan , Arshdeep Singh, Deepak Chahar.

Indian team for the first four days of matches: Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran*, Devdutt Padikkal, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Sarfaraz Khan, KS Bharat (C)(sem), Dhruv Jurel, Shardul Thakur, Pulkit Narang, Sourabh Kumar, Manav Suthar, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Tushara Deshpande.

India’s three-day inter-team matches: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Abhimanyu Easwaran*, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, KS Bharat (week), Dhruv Jurel (week), Ishan Kishan (week), 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.

Indian team for the third match of four days: Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran*, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, KS Bharat (C) (weekly), Dhruv Jurel (weekly), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Manav Suthar, Akash Deep, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Navdeep Saini.