| South Africa tours India to play 3 Test Cricket | | | | the only Twenty20 international. |
| Matches from 26th March to 15th April. | | | | Here is the schedule for this series |
| Both teams are coming from successful overseas | | | | 1st Test - 26th to 30th March 2008 - MA |
| tours. South Africa just finished their tour of | | | | Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| Bangladesh where they won all the test and ODI | | | | 2nd Test - 3rd to 7th April 2008 - Sardar Patel |
| matches and even moved past the world champions | | | | Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad |
| Australia as the best ranked ODI side. Even though | | | | 3rd Test - 11th to 15th April 2008 - Green Park, |
| India lost the test series 2-1 in Australia they won the | | | | Kanpur |
| Commonwealth Bank ODI Series beating Australia in | | | | The Teams |
| the finals 2-0. Both teams are equal strong but the | | | | Both sides got many experienced as well as young |
| home environment will give India a small advantage. | | | | talented players. |
| A Brief History | | | | Indian Team - Anil Kumble (Captain), MS Dhoni |
| In 1991, nearly 22 years after being isolated from the | | | | (Vice-captain/wicket keeper), Rahul Dravid, Sourav |
| international fold due to apartheid, South Africa | | | | Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, Wasim Jaffer, Murali Kartik, |
| arrived in India for a three-match one-day series. And | | | | VVS Laxman, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Virender |
| in 1992 India had the privilege of being the first | | | | Sehwag, RP Singh, Sreesanth, Sachin Tendulkar, |
| international side to play a Test in South Africa since | | | | Yuvraj Singh |
| 1970. Here are the past series and results. | | | | South African Team - Graeme Smith (Captain), |
| 1991-92 in India - India won the ODI series 2-1 | | | | Ashwell Prince (Vice-captain), Hashim Amla, Mark |
| 1992-93 in South Africa - South Africa won the Test | | | | Boucher(Wicket keeper), AB de Villiers, Jean-Paul |
| and ODI series 1-0 and 5-2 | | | | Duminy, Paul Harris, Jacques Kallis, Neil McKenzie, |
| 1996-97 in India - India won the Test series 2-1 | | | | Morne Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Robin Peterson, Dale |
| 1996-97 in South Africa - South Africa won the Test | | | | Steyn, Monde Zondeki |
| series 2-0 | | | | Watch the Matches Live |
| 1999-00 in India - South Africa won the Test series | | | | As the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry |
| 2-0. India won the ODI series 3-2 | | | | of India decided not to term this test series a "event |
| 2001-02 in South Africa - South Africa won the Test | | | | of a national importance", the first match will not be |
| series 1-0 | | | | aired on Doordarshan (DD), nor on All India Radio |
| 2004-05 in India - India won the Test series 1-0 | | | | (AIR), leaving several hundred million fans without |
| 2005-06 in India - ODI Series drawn 2-2 | | | | access to the game. The fates of the other two |
| 2006-07 in South Africa - Africa won the Test series | | | | matches are also uncertain. Most probably they also |
| 2-1. South Africa won the ODI series 4-0. India won | | | | will not be aired for the general public. |