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