JOHANNESBURG: The Indian Cricket team, led by Skipper Virat Kohli, landed here on Thursday for the three-match test series against South Africa, starting December 26 at Centurion.
“South African touchdown,” BCCI posted in the official Twitter handle along with pictures of team members, including Cheteshwar Pujara test specialists, Shardul Thakur and Shreyas Iyer.
📍TouchDown South Africa 🇿🇦 # Teamindia #Savind https://t.co/i8xu6FRP9C- BCCI (@BCCI) 1639655676000HTTPS: //t.co/QaieschHWQ- BCCI (@BCCI) 1639655756000The side of the Kohli test has departed from Mumbai.
For tours which also included three odi in January.
Given the threat caused by the new Novid-19 variant Omicron, the T20 Tour match has been postponed for now and both teams will remain in bio-bubbles during the series.
The opening of the star and the newly appointed white ball captain Rohit Sharma has been ruled out after maintaining a left hamstring injury during the training session in Mumbai.
He was replaced by the opening of Gujarat Talented Priyak Panchal.
The stacking side for this series has been damaged by controversy around the captain and the Snowball problem became a big controversy on Wednesday when Kohli said that the board statement to try to stop him from giving up the T20 captain “inaccurate.” He resigned as captain T20 after a disaster world cup campaign in the UAE and was then removed as Captain Odi earlier this month.
While the series will be hosted by Centurion, two other tests will be played in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Deputy captain of the test team has not yet been announced after Rohit’s injury.
He has replaced the sadness of the form of Ajinkya Rahana.