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New Year’s Test returns to Newlands as India tour South Africa

India will tour South Africa in December this yr and January 2024 for a multi-format collection, the 2 cricket boards introduced on Friday.

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The tour will kick off with a three-match T20I collection to be held in Durban (December 10), Gqeberha (December 12) and Johannesburg (December 14), in accordance to the schedule launched collectively by Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

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The T20 collection will probably be adopted by three ODIs and two Tests – recognized as the Freedom Series – for the Gandhi-Mandela Trophy.

The ODIs will probably be performed in Johannesburg (December 17), Gqeberha (December 19) and Paarl (December 21).

The conventional Boxing Day Test match (December 26-30) will probably be held at Centurion and the New Year’s Test will probably be in Cape Town (January 3-7).

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“The Freedom Series is significant not just because it features two excellent Test teams, but also because it honours Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, two great leaders who shaped our respective nations, and the world around them,” BCCI secretary Jay Shah mentioned in a press assertion.

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CSA chairperson Lawson Naidoo mentioned he was trying ahead to the arrival of the Indian workforce and their followers.

“This is an important tour for both teams and I am really pleased that we will have a full tour comprising all three formats of the game,” he mentioned within the assertion.

The final time India performed a Test collection in South Africa, in 2021-22, they misplaced 2-1 after which then-captain Virat Kohli stepped down from his put up.

By Garrin Lambley © Agence France-Presse


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