South Africa cricket team arrives for five-match T20I series vs India

South African cricket team arrived in India to participate in the five-match T20I series on Thursday. Cricket South Africa has given this information by sharing pictures on their Twitter handle.

South Africa's team will go to New Delhi first, where the first T20 match of the series will be played. This will be the first time that BCCI will host a series without the restrictions of bio-bubble.

The first T20 match is to be played on June 9, while the last match of the series will be held in Bangalore on June 19. Meanwhile, all the players of the Indian team will gather in Delhi on June 5. As captain Rohit Sharma was rested for the series, KL Rahul will lead Team India in the five-match bilateral series.

India vs South Africa T20Is full schedule

1st T20: June 9 - Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, New Delhi
2nd T20- June 12 - Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
3rd T20- June 14 - Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam
4th T20- June 17 - Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot
5th T20- June 19 - M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

India full squad

KL Rahul (Capt), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant(VC) (wk), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Hardik Pandya, Venkatesh Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik.

South Africa full squad

Temba Bavuma (Captain), Quinton de Kock, Reeza Hendrix, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Wayne Parnell, Dwayne Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Tabariz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Rasi van der Dussen, Marco Janssen.