India and South Africa has played 19 test matches between themselves. Out of which 5 matches were played in India and 14 matches were played in South Africa.South Africa has a upper hand by winning 9 matches out of 19 , 4 won by India and 6 were drawn.
The First Match is played at Chennai between March 26'th - March 30'th.
The Second match will be plyed t Ahemadabad between April 3'rd - April 7'th
The Third Match will be played at Kanpur between April 11'th - April 15'th
The 11 Players for the First test are as follows.
South African team comprises of G Smith,N McKenzie,H Amla,J Kallis,A Prince,AB de Villiers,M Boucher,M Morkel,P Harris,D Steyn,M Ntini
Indian Team Comprises of RP Singh, S Sreesanth, *A Kumble , Harbhajan Singh, S Tendulkar , S Ganguly , VVS Laxman, V Sehwag , MS Dhoni, R Dravid, W Jaffer
If Sachin scores 171 runs from this series he will over take Lara and will become the highest run getter in Test Arena. if he scores 218 runs he will be the first person to achieve 12,000 runs in the history of test cricket.
First time , to my knowledge the match that is played in India is not telecasted in Doordarshan.Play is telecasted through Neo Sports.
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