Date: Friday 5 January – Tuesday 9 January.
Time: 10:30 (SAST)
Venue: Newlands, Cape Town.
Live Stream & TV: SuperSport 2 (South Africa), Sony Ten 1 & Sony Ten 3 (India), Sky Sports Main Event (UK).
Overview
India, the world’s number one Test team, are in town and ready to face South Africa.
After months of boring board room wrangling over dates, fixtures and who knows what else, we finally have a three-match Test cricket series to get our teeth into this summer.
The less said about the Proteas’ two-day, Boxing Day Test blitz of hopeless Zimbabwe the better.
Slightly more instructive for home fans were the two Test thrashings of Bangladesh last September and October.
Heavy runs and confident bowling aligned for stand-in skipper AB de Villiers’ side to wipe the floor with the men from the subcontinent.