South Africa will tour India in November to play a 2-Test, 3-ODI and 5-match T20 series. It will start with the Test series, the first match of which will be played at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata between November 14 and November 18. Cricket South Africa has announced its team for the Test series against India.

This will be Shubman Gill’s second home Test series as Test captain, before this Gill and the team had won the 2-match Test series 2-0 at home against West Indies. South Africa ended its last Test series with a 1-1 draw with Pakistan, the first match of which was won by Pakistan and the second by South Africa.

Aiden Markram was handling the captaincy in the absence of Temba Bavuma in the Test series against Pakistan, but Bavuma has returned against India. It was under the captaincy of Bavuma that South Africa won the ICC World Test Championship title this year by defeating Australia in the final.

South Africa Test Squad

Temba Bavuma (captain), Corbin Bosch, Dewald Brevis, Marco Jansen, Aiden Markram, Zubair Hamza, Keshav Maharaj, Ryan Rickelton, Tony De Zorzi, Senuran Muthusamy, Tristan Stubbs. Kagiso Rabada, Kyle Verne, Wiaan Mulder, Simon Harmer.

SQUAD ANNOUNCEMENT

The South African Men’s selection panel has announced the 15-player squad for the two-match Test series against India from 14 – 26 November in the subcontinent.

Test captain Temba Bavuma returns to the side after missing the recent Pakistan Test series… pic.twitter.com/dOGTELaXUu

— Proteas Men (@ProteasMenCSA) October 27, 2025

South Africa has not won a test series in India for 26 years

This will be the 8th time that South Africa is coming to India to play a Test series, before this the team has come to India 7 times where India has won 4 series and South Africa has won 1 series. 2 series has ended in a draw. South Africa won the last and only Test series on the India tour in 1990, after that the team came to India 5 times to play the Test series but could never win.

India vs South Africa Test Schedule

first test

• date- 14 to 18 November
• Venue- Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata
• Time- from 9:30 am

second test

• date- 22 to 26 November
• Venue- Assam Cricket Association Stadium, Guwahati
• Time- from 9:30 am

The second test match between Pakistan and South Africa is being played in Rawalpindi. In this match, Pakistan’s first innings was limited to 333 runs. In this innings, the Indian origin cricketer broke the back of the Pakistani batting line-up. Keshav Maharaj bowled marathon spells, and bowled more than 42 overs in the match. He dismissed 7 batsmen of Pakistan in this innings.

Captain Shan Masood contributed 87 runs, Saud Shakeel contributed 66 runs and Salman Agha also contributed 45 runs. Pakistan team was moving towards a big score, and at one time it had scored 316 runs after losing 5 wickets. From here, such a storm came from Keshav Maharaj that he dismissed all the other Pakistani batsmen within the next 17 runs. Let us tell you that Maharaj did not play the first test against Pakistan, but he returned in the second match.

South Africa’s Hindu cricketer shines

Keshav Maharaj is a great Hanuman devotee. On his X profile, he has described himself as a devotee of Lord Ram and Hanuman. When Pakistan’s score was 316 runs, Keshav Maharaj dismissed Salman Aga on the score of 45. In his very next over, he also dismissed set batsman Saud Shakeel, who was out after scoring 66 runs. After that he clean bowled Shaheen Afridi and Asif Afridi and got Sajid Khan caught by Aiden Markram.

Keshav Maharaj bowled 42.4 overs in the innings, in which he took 7 wickets for 102 runs. This is not the most wickets taken by Keshav in an innings, he had earlier achieved the feat of taking 7 wickets in an innings against Bangladesh in 2022 and 9 wickets in a Test innings against Sri Lanka in 2018. Till the time of writing this article, the South African team has scored 122 runs at the loss of two wickets in its first innings and is still behind by 212 runs in the first innings.

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The second test match is being played between Pakistan and South Africa in Rawalpindi. On the first day of this test, Pakistan scored 259 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. At the time of stumps, Saud Shakeel returned unbeaten on 42 and Salman Agha on 10 runs. Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer took two wickets each for South Africa. Star batsman Babar Azam also flopped in this test.

Captain Shan Masood missed a century

In the second test also, Pakistan’s condition remained the same as in the first test. The top order gave a strong start, but the middle order failed completely. At one time Pakistan’s score was 146 runs for one wicket. At the same time, Pakistan team lost 5 wickets till 246. Captain Shan Masood missed a century. He scored 87 runs in 176 balls with the help of two fours and three sixes. Masood was dismissed by Keshav Maharaj. Opener Abdullah Shafiq also scored a half-century. Shafiq scored 57 runs in 146 balls with the help of four fours.

Babar Azam flopped again

Babar Azam, who has been struggling with poor form for a long time, once again flopped. Babar scored 16 runs in 22 balls with the help of three fours. Rizwan’s bat did not even work in this test. Rizwan was out after scoring 19 runs. Babar was dismissed by Keshav Maharaj, while Rizwan was sent to the pavilion by Rabada.

Salman Aga and Saud Shakeel returned unbeaten

Saud Shakeel returned unbeaten on 42 runs with the help of three fours in 105 balls. Whereas Salman Agha is on 10 runs in 25 balls with one four. There is only a partnership of 13 runs between the two. On the second day, Pakistan team will expect a big innings from these two.

Test debut of 39 year old player

Pakistan has given a chance to 39 year old Asif Afridi to debut in this test. At present his age is 47 years 284 days, but in December he will complete 39 years. Asif has become the second oldest cricketer to debut in Test cricket for Pakistan. The oldest player to debut for Pakistan in Test cricket is Miran Baksh, who debuted against Team India in 1955 at the age of 47 years and 284 days.

Babar Azam’s bad form is not ready to leave him. The first test between Pakistan and South Africa is being played in Lahore, in which Babar was out after scoring only 23 runs. The Pakistan team lost 4 wickets in just 36 runs, due to which the South African team dominated the Lahore Test. Although Shan Masood and Imam ul Haq had put the Pakistan team in a very good position, the African bowlers made a comeback in the match by taking wickets in quick succession.

3 wickets fell without any runs being scored

At one time, Pakistan team had lost only one wicket on the score of 163. Shan Masood and Imam ul Haq had made a partnership of 161 runs for the second wicket. First captain Masood was out on the score of 76. Imam ul Haq and Babar Azam had added 36 runs, but when the team score was 199 runs, Babar Azam was out on the score of just 23 runs.

With the score of 163/1, Pakistan’s position had become 199/5. Saud Shakeel became the victim of a golden duck, while Imam Ulhaq was out after scoring 93 runs. The situation was such that Pakistan’s third, fourth and fifth wickets fell at the score of 199. Pakistan team lost 3 wickets without scoring any runs.

Test century did not come from 3rd

It has been almost 3 years since Babar Azam scored a century in a test match. His last century in Test cricket came against New Zealand in December 2022. After that, Babar has not been able to score any century in 27 innings. During this period he has scored only 3 half-centuries.

After the Test series against New Zealand in the year 2023, Babar Azam has not even touched the figure of 200 runs in any Test series. Before the start of the Test series against South Africa, Babar Azam had scored a total of 539 runs in 6 Test series.

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ICC Bowling Rankings: The ICC has released its latest bowling rankings. In this, different bowlers in all three format tests, ODIs and T20s have become the world’s number-1. Jasprit Bumrah of India, Keshav Maharaj of South Africa and Jacob Dafi of New Zealand are currently at the top. Let’s know which bowler in which format is number 1.

Jasprit Bumrah dominates in Test cricket

Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has currently become the number-1 bowler of Test cricket. He has 889 rating points. Bumrah’s career-Best is 908 ratings, which he achieved in the Sydney Test against Australia in 2025. Bumrah is known for his unique bowling style and accurate yorker. He has won India by changing the attitude of the match several times with his spell. Especially his performance on foreign pitches proves to be a big power for Team India.

Keshav Maharaj of South Africa in ODIs

South African spin bowler Keshav Maharaj is at number-1 in the ODI rankings. He currently has 671 rating points. His career-Best has been a 741 rating, which he achieved against Australia in 2023 in Kolkata. Maharaj is famous for his stubborn bowling and the art of pressurizing batsmen. In ODI cricket, he has given the team an edge in many important matches with his accuracy and restraint.

New Zealand’s Jacob Dafi in T20 Number 1

New Zealand fast bowler Jacob Dafi has secured first place in T20 International’s bowling rankings. He has 717 rating points in his account. Dafi has a career-Best 750 rating, which he achieved in Harare against South Africa in 2025. Dafi is known for his fast bowling, swing and ability to control death overs. The diversity in his balls has proved to be very effective in confusing batsmen.

ICC Man’s Odie Bowling Ranking: South Africa’s left -handed spinner Keshav Maharaj has achieved the top position for the first time in the ICC ODI bowlers rankings on the basis of his brilliant performance. In the first ODI played against Australia, he spent 5 wickets in 10 overs after spending just 33 runs. Thanks to this strong performance, he got the benefit of two places and he has reached number-1 directly.

Big change in ranking

Maharaja is now at the top with 687 points thanks to a great performance against Australia. Mahesh Pratishna of Sri Lanka had to slip down one position and now he is second. Kuldeep Yadav of India has also lost one place and he too has gone to number three.

The latest ICC list is at number four, Bernard Scolts of Namibia, Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan at number six, Mitchell Santner of New Zealand at number six, Matt Henry on Seven, Sri Lanka’s Vanind Hasranga on eighth, Ravindra Jadeja of India on ninth and Adam Jampa of Australia on tenth position on ninth. Interestingly, in this top-10, all the players except Matte Henry are spinners. Matt Henry remains in this list as the lone fast bowler.

300 international wickets completed

Keshav Maharaj has achieved another major achievement in this match. He has become the first spinner bowler to take 300 international wickets in the history of South Africa.
His name has 203 wickets in 59 Tests, 63 wickets in 49 ODIs and 38 wickets in 39 T20 international matches. In this way, his total figure has been 304 wickets.

Place in the list of veterans

However, he is still far behind in the case of South African bowler who took the most wickets. At the top of this list, Sean Pollock is named 823 wickets. Pollock took 421 Tests, 387 ODIs and 15 T20 wickets in his career.

Australia lost the almost won match against South Africa on Tuesday. Australia made a brilliant start chasing a target of 297. Australia had hit 60 runs in just 7 overs without losing any wickets. But after this, within 29 runs, Australia lost 6 wickets one after the other and lost the match by 98 runs. South Africa has taken a 1-0 lead in the three-match ODI series.

Markram-Bawuma and Breetjke half-century, Africa targets 297 runs

The first match of the three -match ODI series was played between Australia and South Africa on Tuesday. Australia won the toss and decided to bowl first. This decision of Australia proved to be wrong. South African openers Aidan Markram and Ryan Ricelton gave the team a great start.

Markram and Riclton jointly shared a 92 -run partnership for the first wicket. Riklton was dismissed after scoring 33 runs. Markram scored a brilliant half -century. Markram scored 82 runs in 81 balls with the help of 9 fours. After this, captain Tamba Bavuma and Matthew Breetjke also scored a half -century.

Breetjke scored 57 runs in 56 balls with the help of 7 fours and a six. At the same time, captain Bavuma scored 65 runs in 74 balls with the help of 5 fours. Due to which South Africa scored 296 runs losing 8 wickets in 50 overs. Travis Head took the most four wickets for Australia.

29 runs and 6 wickets lost, Australia lost by 98 runs

The Australian team started chasing a target of 297 runs. Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh added 60 runs for the first wicket. After which it seemed that Australia could easily win this match. Because he had dangerous batsmen like Marnas Labushen, Cameron Green, Josh English and Alex Carrie.

But South Africa’s left -or -arm spinner Keshav Maharaj reversed the match. The first wicket fell at the head of the head at a score of 60. Head was dismissed by Purnelin Subrayan. After this, Australia lost 5 wickets. Keshav Maharaj took all the wickets.

Maharaj opened the claw by taking the wicket of Labushen, Green, English, Carrie and Aaron Hardy. At one time Australia’s score was 60 runs without any wicket. He is now 89 runs for 6 wickets. Only after this, Australia lost the match. He was all out for 198 runs. Australia lost this match by 98 runs.

Maharaj took five wickets for 33 runs. Maharaj was adjudged Player of the Match for his superb bowling. After this brilliant performance, now South Africa is ahead 1-0 in the series.

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Keshav maharaj wickets in test cricket: Keshav Maharaj, the current captain of the South Africa team, has achieved a new record in Test cricket. Keshav Maharaj has taken 200 wickets in the Test. He has become the first South African spin bowler to do so. Keshav Maharaj also has a connection with India. Their ancestors used to live in India earlier. Even after living in South Africa and playing for this country, Keshav Maharaj follows Hindu customs.

Keshav Maharaj completed 200 wickets

Keshav Maharaj has been playing Test cricket for the South African team for the last nine years. This 35 -year -old player is as the lead spin bowler in the team. After winning the WTC final, South Africa captain Tamba Bavuma was injured, due to which the team’s command in the Test series against Zimbabwe has been handed over to Keshav Maharaj. Now Keshav Maharaj has taken 200 wickets in Test career.

Another Milestone Moment for South Africa Frontline Spinner Keshav Maharaj #Zimvsa https://t.co/90vex8nped pic.twitter.com/ne8kq73nt0

– ICC (@ICC) June 30, 2025

Keshav Maharaj’s cricketing career

Keshav Maharaj is playing his 59th Test match in the series against Zimbabwe. Keshav Maharaj has taken the 200th wicket in this series. Keshav has taken 58 wickets in 48 matches in ODIs. At the same time, this spin bowler of South African team has taken 38 wickets in 39 matches in T20.

South Africa vs Zimbabwe

The first Test match is being played between South Africa and Zimbabwe, in which SA won the toss and decided to bat first. South Africa scored 418 runs in the first innings at the loss of 9 wickets and declared the innings. In response, Zimbabwe’s team was all out for 251 runs. South Africa is now playing the second innings, in which the score of lunch in the third day game has been 185 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. South Africa has a lead of 352 runs.

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Why did Tenba get out?

Under the captaincy of Bavuma, South Africa created history by winning the ICC Trophy after 27 years. During this time, Bavuma was injured. Khichon had come in Bavuma’s hamstring. For this reason, Bavuma was ruled out of the two -match Test series against Zimbabwe.

Keshav Maharaj of Indian origin gets captaincy

In the absence of Bavuma, the captaincy of the South Africa team has been given to Keshav Maharaj of Indian origin. Keshav’s ancestors were from India. According to media reports, Keshav’s ancestors were from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh. He moved to South Africa in the year 1874. Even after being born in Durban in South Africa, Keshav is connected to the roots of his country. He is a devotee of Lord Hunman. Keshav celebrates all the festivals of India like every Indian.

South Africa announced team for the first Test

Apart from Bavuma, senior players like Aidan Markram, Ryan Ricelton, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Angidi are not part of this series. All these players have been given rest. In his place, many young players have been given a chance in the team. Which includes the names of Dewald Brevis, Luan de Pretorians and Quen Mafa.

South Africa playing-11: Tony de Jorgy, Matthew Breetjke, Vian Mulder, David Bedingham, Luan de Pritorius, Dewald Brevis, Kyle Weren, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj (Captain), Kodi Yusuf, Quen Mafaka.

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South Africa WTC Final 2025: The South Africa cricket team captained by Tempa Bavuma defeated Australia and won the ICC World Test Championship 2025 title. This is the biggest gap between two ICC Trophy, before South Africa won the Champions Trophy in 1998. After this historic victory, veterans like AB de Villiers, Graeme Smith also became emotional. When Keshav Maharaj started crying, the captain was seen hiding his tears.

South Africa, called Choks, removed this tag by defeating Australia in the WTC final. In the second innings, Aidan Markram played a brilliant century innings and when the team was out, the team was just 6 runs away from the victory. All the viewers were disappointed with him, it would have been good if the winning run would come with his bat or he would stand till the end. Well, the most important was victory and it got to South Africa. After this, everyone looked emotional.

Temba Bavuma hid tears like this

Captain Bavuma is being praised everywhere, everyone has become crazy about his calm nature and brilliant captaincy. He did not lose any Test as a captain and maintained this record. As soon as South Africa won, all the players jumped happily but Temba Bavuma turned her head down, he started hiding his tears. After this, he put his head up and started applauding for his team, as if his team had won a club match. But he was emotional at this time and was hiding his emotion.

Captain Tempa Bavuma and his wife both Got Emotional when they are the WTC Trophy. pic.twitter.com/dcl9DPQVug

– tanuj (@imtanujsingh) June 14, 2025

Keshav Maharaj cried

When Smith came to interview Keshav Maharaj, Keshav Maharaj started crying, speaking his tears were falling. There was a huge pan in his voice, but he kept his whole thing because these tears were of happiness. He was a part of a team that gave South Africa the ICC title after 27 years. His videos started going viral on social media. After this he went with his family and took photographs with the trophy.

Keshav Maharaj, The only Indian-Origin Player to touch the WTC Trophy.

His interview with Graham Smith Can Make even Cry

Congratulations South Africa and Captain Temba for Making This History.#WTCFINAL2025#Southafrica pic.twitter.com/3azygk3azl

– Devendra Soni (@Devendraso37461) June 14, 2025

Keshav Maharaj with his wife and Daughter after Wtc Win. pic.twitter.com/b6VWICMHA4

– Mufaddal Vohra (@Mufaddal_vohra) June 14, 2025

Legendary emotional

As soon as the match reached the last moments, the camera was going on the camera repeatedly on Graeme Smith. When the world’s best captains are talked about, then Smith’s name will be taken. However, under his captaincy, the team could not win any ICC title and when his team won the World Test Championship on Saturday, his happiness was not a place, he also looked emotional.

Grame smith “aura” pic.twitter.com/ioih87afid

– (@Kingxbaldwin_) June 14, 2025

This month was fantastic for AB de Villiers, the first RCB team won the IPL Trophy. De Villiers went to Ahmedabad to see the final. His national team then won the World Test Championship title. Congratulating his team for the victory, he wrote, “A brilliant victory and very good played. Salute to Aidan Markram for the match -winning century, and also to Tempa Bavuma to lead so brilliantly throughout the match.”

Congratulations @Proteasmencsa
Fantastic Win and So Well Played! Hats off to markram for that match winning century, and Temba for Leading with Such Ice and Fire All Through

What an Incredible Experience of Watching This Beautiful Format of the Game! The Built Up Drama,… pic.twitter.com/nvbr3APMKO

– AB de Villiers (@Abodevilliers17) June 14, 2025

What happened in the World Test Championship Final

South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl first. Australia scored 212 runs in the first innings. BU webster scored 72 and Steve Smith scored 66 runs. For South Africa, Kagiso Rabada took 5 wickets and Marco Jansen took 3 wickets. South Africa collapsed for 138 runs in the first innings, David Bedingham scored 45 and Bavuma scored 36 runs, Pat Cummins took 6 wickets. After this it was felt that Australia would win this match.

The top order flopped in Australia’s second innings, but the brilliant innings by Alex Carrie (43) and then Mitchell Starc (58) gave Australia a lead of 281 runs. Chasing the target, Aidan Markram (136) ensured the team’s victory by scoring centuries and Tempa Bavuma (66).