Centurion: South African and Indian teams observed silence for a moment ahead of the opening test to honor the anti-apartheid icon of the Dekmond Tutu, which died on Sunday.
The South African players also entered the land wearing black arm tires as a sign of respect.
“Proteas and South African cricket teams as nations, world-famous statesmen, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu who died this morning.” The teams have a moment of silence ahead of the beginning of the first Betway test match against India.
Proteas wears black armbands to respect Tutu, “said Wing Media Tim India.
Tutu, activist winning Nobel Prize for South Peace for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Archbishop Anglican City of Cape, died at the age of 90 years..
Tutu has been treated In hospital several times since 2015, after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997.