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Tue Sep 29 (50 ovs)
TBC v South Africans
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Fri Oct 2 (20 ovs) 19:00 local (13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST)
1st T20I - India v South Africa
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharmasala

Mon Oct 5 (20 ovs) 19:00 local (13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST)
2nd T20I - India v South Africa
Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

Thu Oct 8 (20 ovs) 19:00 local (13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST)
3rd T20I - India v South Africa
Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Sun Oct 11 (50 ovs) 09:00 local (03:30 GMT | 04:30 BST)
1st ODI - India v South Africa
Green Park, Kanpur

Wed Oct 14 (50 ovs) 13:30 local (08:00 GMT | 09:00 BST)
2nd ODI - India v South Africa
Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore

Sun Oct 18 (50 ovs) 13:30 local (08:00 GMT | 09:00 BST)
3rd ODI - India v South Africa
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot

Thu Oct 22 (50 ovs) 13:30 local (08:00 GMT | 09:00 BST)
4th ODI - India v South Africa
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Sun Oct 25 (50 ovs) 13:30 local (08:00 GMT)
5th ODI - India v South Africa
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Fri Oct 30 - Sat Oct 31
Indian Board President's XI v South Africans
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Thu Nov 5 - Mon Nov 9 09:30 local (04:00 GMT)
1st Test - India v South Africa
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Sat Nov 14 - Wed Nov 18 09:30 local (04:00 GMT)
2nd Test - India v South Africa
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Wed Nov 25 - Sun Nov 29 09:30 local (04:00 GMT)
3rd Test - India v South Africa
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur

Thu Dec 3 - Mon Dec 7 09:30 local (04:00 GMT)
4th Test - India v South Africa
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

South Africa Test squad: Hashim Amla (capt), AB de Villiers, Temba Bavuma, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Dean Elgar, Simon Harmer, Imran Tahir, Morne Morkel, Vernon Philander, Dane Piedt, Kagiso Rabada, Dale Steyn, Stiaan van Zyl, Dane Vilas.

ODI squad: AB de Villiers (capt), Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, Aaron Phangiso, Kagiso Rabada, Rilee Rossouw, Dale Steyn.

T20 squad: Faf du Plessis (capt), Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock, Marchant de Lange, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, Eddie Leie, David Miller, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, David Wiese, Khaya Zondo

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-sou ... 19227.html

ODI squad: MS Dhoni (captain), R Ashwin, Stuart Binny, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Axar Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Mohit Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Gurkeerat Mann, Amit Mishra

T20I squad: MS Dhoni (captain), R Ashwin, Stuart Binny, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Axar Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Mohit Sharma, Rohit Sharma, S Aravind, Harbhajan Singh, Amit Mishra

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-sou ... 21989.html

There's a month of limited overs cricket before the Tests start! Thankfully four Tests though. Good luck to the bowlers in Ahmedabad and Nagpur.

Haven't questions been raised about Harmer and Piedt's actions?

T20i starts tomorrow.

Didn't realise it was so soon upon us.

India struggling a bit today.

65/4 off 11.

Even worse...

85/9.

SA 66-3... needing 27 from 48 balls

The players have come off because the crowd are throwing bottles.

I hope the match is awarded to South Africa....

Match resumed, and SA waltzed to victory in the end....

Really poor form from the Indian fans today. Nobody wants to see that.

Getting frustrated at the opposition for batting so slowly when it was their players that gave them the luxury to do so.

365notout wrote:Really poor form from the Indian fans today. Nobody wants to see that.

Getting frustrated at the opposition for batting so slowly when it was their players that gave them the luxury to do so.

that surprises me, I would have thought it might have been rooted in frustration at the performance of the Ind team - still need to look again at security

The way I have perceived it is the fact that the batsmen were just knocking back singles.

apparently even after the game restarted the police were more focused on watching the game then on watching the crowd - that just doesn't create a great impression of professionalism.

it's not clear to me why they seemed to have glass bottles - maybe we need to head in the same direction as football and ban glass - actually even at the cricket in the UK we have plastic pint glasses etc

I wonder if there will be any further action on this - totally unacceptable for this to happen. worryingly, dhoni seemed to be trying to downplay the whole thing

elsewhere, that was pretty embarrassing in home conditions for India - i hope that's not the way the rest of this series is going to go