South Africa to tour India in February 2010. In this Cricket tour, South Africa will play two test matches and three one day internationals. The first of the tests will start from February 6 and will be played at Nagpur. The other test match will be played in Kolkata from Feb. 14 to Feb. 18. Then there will be three one day internationals to be played on 21, 24 and 27th of February 2010 at Jaipur, Kanpur and Ahmedabad respectively.
South Africa Test Cricket Team:
Following poor performance in the recent series against the England, Makhaya Ntini has been dropped from the test team. F. de Wet is the other player who have been dropped from the team. They are replaced by fast bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe and spinner Johan Botha.
G Smith, A Prince, H Amla, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, P Harris, Jacques Kallis, R McLaren, J Botha, Mark Boucher, M Morkel, W Parnell, Alviro Petersen, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe.
South Africa ODI Team :
Herschelle Gibbs has been recalled for the ODI series while Hashim Amla, Langeveldt, R McLaren have been dropped who were the part of the team for recent series against England.
Graeme Smith, L Bosman, J Botha, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, H Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, A Morkel, M Morkel, W Parnell, Alviro Petersen, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Roelof van der Merwe.
India Cricket Team for the first Test :
Following the injury during the Bangladesh tour Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh and Sreesanth will miss the first test in this series against South Africa. Wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik has been dropped from the team and replaced by W. Saha while Tamil Nadu batsman S Badrinath have been included in the team for the first test match.
MS Dhoni, V Sehwag, G Gambhir, S Badrinath, Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, M Vijay, W Saha, Harbhajan, Z Khan, Amit Mishra, PP Ojha, Ishant Sharma, Sudeep Tyagi, Abhimanyu Mithun.
