Published: Sep 19, 2015, 05:07 AM (IST)
Edited: Sep 19, 2015, 05:10 AM (IST)
India played their first ever T20I game against South Africa in the year 2006 against African giants South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium in Johanesburg. It was incidently also the only T20I game to be played by Sachin Tendulkar as India ended up on a winning note in the game. South Africa posted an average total of 126 for the loss of nine wickets, while India chased it down comfortably by six wickets. Although Sachin could just contribute 10 runs, it was Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Mongia and Dinesh Karthik, who scored 30 above each and helped India chase the target down comfortably and happily. VIDEO: India edge South Africa out by 2 runs in thrilling Hero Cup semi-final in 1993
Presently, India will host South Africa for four Tests, five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) in South Africa’s largest Indian tour, of 72 days. The tour will begin with a T20 practice match in Delhi, before the first T20I, in Dharamsala, and will end with the final day of the fourth Test in Delhi, on December 7. The two countries have been engaged in only one four-Test series before, in South Africa in 1992-93. India had lost that Test series 1-0, with three drawn games. That was the first Test series the two had been playing against each other. VIDEO: South Africa fast bowlers undergo training under Charles Langeveldt
Twenty nine Tests have been played between the sides overall: South Africa have won 13 of them, and lost seven. In the last Test series between the sides, in South Africa, the home side almost pulled off a miraculous win in the first Test, and dominated the second, to defeat India 1-0. In South Africa in 2010-11, and in India in early 2010, the teams drew the series 1-1.
