The South African cricket team toured India in November and December 2025 to play the Indian cricket team. The tour consisted of two Test, three One Day International (ODI) and five Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The Test series formed part of the 2025–2027 ICC World Test Championship. In April 2025, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed the fixtures for the tour, as a part of the 2025–26 home international season.
The venue for the 1st Test was updated from New Delhi to Kolkata in June 2025.
Squads TestsODIsT20IsTestsODIsT20Is Shubman Gill (c) Rishabh Pant (vc, wk) Jasprit Bumrah Akash Deep Ravindra Jadeja Yashasvi Jaiswal Dhruv Jurel (wk) Devdutt Padikkal Axar Patel KL Rahul Nitish Kumar Reddy Mohammed Siraj Sai Sudharsan Washington Sundar Kuldeep Yadav KL Rahul (c, wk) Ruturaj Gaikwad Ravindra Jadeja Yashasvi Jaiswal Dhruv Jurel Virat Kohli Prasidh Krishna Rishabh Pant (wk) Harshit Rana Nitish Kumar Reddy Rohit Sharma Arshdeep Singh Washington Sundar Tilak Varma Kuldeep Yadav Suryakumar Yadav (c) Shubman Gill (vc) Shahbaz Ahmed Jasprit Bumrah Varun Chakaravarthy Shivam Dube Hardik Pandya Axar Patel Harshit Rana Sanju Samson (wk) Abhishek Sharma Jitesh Sharma (wk) Arshdeep Singh Washington Sundar Tilak Varma Kuldeep Yadav Temba Bavuma (c) Corbin Bosch Dewald Brevis Tony de Zorzi Zubayr Hamza Simon Harmer Marco Jansen Keshav Maharaj Aiden Markram Wiaan Mulder Senuran Muthusamy Lungi Ngidi Kagiso Rabada Ryan Rickelton (wk) Tristan Stubbs Kyle Verreynne (wk) Temba Bavuma (c) Aiden Markram (vc) Ottniel Baartman Corbin Bosch Matthew Breetzke Dewald Brevis Nandre Burger Quinton de Kock (wk) Tony de Zorzi Rubin Hermann Keshav Maharaj Marco Jansen Ryan Rickelton (wk) Prenelan Subrayen Aiden Markram (c) Ottniel Baartman Corbin Bosch Dewald Brevis Quinton de Kock (wk) Tony de Zorzi Donovan Ferreira Reeza Hendricks Marco Jansen George Linde Keshav Maharaj Kwena Maphaka David Miller Lungi Ngidi Anrich Nortje Lutho Sipamla Tristan Stubbs
On 12 November, Nitish Kumar Reddy was released from squad for the first Test to join the India A squad for the unofficial ODI series against South Africa A. On 21 November, Shubman Gill was ruled out of the second Test due to a neck injury. On 15 December, Axar Patel was ruled out of the remaining T20I series due to an illness and was replaced by Shahbaz Ahmed.
On 18 November, Lungi Ngidi was added to the Test squad as cover for Kagiso Rabada. On 21 November, Kagiso Rabada was ruled out of the second Test due to a rib bone stress injury. On 6 December, Tony de Zorzi was ruled out of the T20I series due to injury and Kwena Maphaka was withdrew himself from the T20I series and Lutho Sipamla was named as his replacement.
Test series 1st Test
2nd Test
ODI series 1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
T20I series 1st T20I
2nd T20I
3rd T20I
4th T20I
5th T20I
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References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo