New Delhi: The Indian cricket team will play three Tests, seven ODIs and two Twenty20 matches during their tour of South Africa, slated to start at the end of this year. Cricket South Africa and the Indian Cricket Board were contemplating accommodating one more Test but things could not materialise as both boards decided to stick to ICC's Futures Tour Programme (FTP)
The Indian team will be short on Test cricket when they take on the world number one side, playing the first longer-version game since the 4-0 whitewash of the Australians at home in March. South Africa last played the format in February and will only meet Pakistan for two matches in the UAE before hosting India.
Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg or Centurion could be the three possible venues for the Test series. There is a possibility of the Boxing Day Test returning to Durban after it was cancelled previous season because CSA opted to play three festive T20s instead.
India drew their last Test series in South Africa 1-1 in 2010-11. The dates are expected to be announced later. ...
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08:21 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Johannesburg: Former South African President and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is making "continuous improvement" in a hospital where he was admitted last week for pneumonia, President Jacob Zuma said after visiting the revered statesman on Thursday. "President Jacob Zuma visited former President Nelson Mandela in hospital on Thursday, 4 April 2013, and received a briefing from doctors which indicate continuous improvement in his condition," Zuma's office said in a statement....
08:48 PM, Apr 04, 2013
South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela remained in a hospital on Easter on Sunday after being admitted for a recurrence of pneumonia four days ago, but doctors said the former president was making steady progress. ...
07:20 PM, Mar 31, 2013
South Africa might have had an Indian-origin First Lady if Amina Cachalia had agreed to a proposal of marriage from the country's first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela. ...
04:21 PM, Mar 30, 2013
In a country where one in four women is raped and where months-old babies and 94-year-old grandmothers are sexually assaulted, citizens are demanding action after a teenager was gang-raped, sliced open from her stomach to her genitals, and left for dead on a construction site last week. ...
07:40 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Mohammad Hafeez picked up four wickets as the visitors took an upper hand at stumps on day one of the first Test. ...
01:22 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Former South African President Nelson Mandela was released on December 26 from the hospital after being treated for a lung infection and having gallstones removed, a government spokesman said. The 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon will continue to receive medical care at home. Mandela had been in the hospital since December 8. In recent days, officials have said he was improving and in good spirits, but doctors have taken extraordinary care with...
01:23 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Nelson Mandela was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on December 8 after being flown from his home village of Qunu in a remote part of the Eastern Cape province. ...
04:48 PM, Dec 20, 2012
The name rang a faint but distinct bell. Familiar, but why? The photograph shows a dapper young man wearing a buttoned-down jacket with angled lapels, hair parted neatly on the left, head tilted ever-so-slightly to the right. This was Nagappen Padayachee, from 1909. An immigrant to South Africa from Tamil Nadu, Padayachee was arrested in June that year for hawking without a permit. His sentence: 10 days in prison with...
01:46 PM, Aug 16, 2011
Johannesburg: A train crash injured more than 640 passengers on Thursday night in South Africa's Soweto township outside Johannesburg, local media reported, citing emergency services. South African news agency SAPA said two of the injured were in a critical condition. It said a train had apparently collided with a stationary one in Soweto, the country's biggest black township. Commuter train accidents are a regular occurrence in South Africa. In 2009...
02:29 PM, May 20, 2011
Kanpur: The state-run Coal India Limited (CIL) will make its second attempt to buy the house of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg. CIL wants to build a memorial in the house, where Mahatma had lived for over a year. The PSU had made its first attempt to buy the house of the Father of the Nation in August 2009 when some officials learnt that it was up for sale. But the...
12:24 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Kanpur: The state-run Coal India Limited will make its second attempt to buy the house of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg, where he had lived for over a year, with the desire to build a memorial there. The PSU had made its first attempt to buy the house of the Father of the Nation in August 2009 when some officials learnt that it was up for sale. But the owner of...
12:15 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Johannesburg: For Enrique Iglesias, who performed at the opening concert of the Champions League Twenty20 here on Thursday, cricket is completely a new sport but the Spanish pop sensation said he is slowly and steadily trying to acquire more knowledge about the game. He also said that he is a big fan of soccer and star Argentina forward Lionel Messi but admitted that he came to know about Indian batting...
08:42 AM, Sep 10, 2010
Miss India Pooja Chopra was eliminated in the penultimate round. ...
11:09 PM, Dec 12, 2009
Somdev credits team, seniors for cheering him to landmark Davis Cup win. ...
08:25 AM, Sep 21, 2009
India had high hopes on Parvathy to win the crown that last came to the country in 2000. ...
03:30 PM, Dec 14, 2008
21-year-old Parvathy is 5 feet 9 inches tall and hails from Kerala. ...
10:30 PM, Dec 13, 2008
21-year-old Parvathy is 5 feet 9 inches tall and hails from Kerala. ...
10:08 PM, Dec 13, 2008
