NEW DELHI: The Quinton de Kock-led South Africa team set foot on India on Saturday for the upcoming three-match T20 series.
"Excited to be back in India and looking forward to playing
cricket
again," pace spearhead
Kagiso Rabada tweeted.
South Africa will start the tour with the
T20I
matches, the first of which is in Dharamsala on September 15, followed by Mohali (September 18) and Bengaluru (September 22).
That will be followed by Tests in Visakhapatnam (Oct. 2-6), Pune (Oct. 10-14) and Ranchi (Oct 19-23) as the Proteas open their campaign in the
ICC World Test Championship
.
The team is scheduled to meet South Africa's High Commissioner in Delhi on Monday and are expected to touch down to Dharamsala on September 9, six days before the first T20 International.
The squad will be led by interim team director
Enoch Nkwe, filling the role after the decision not to renew the contract of coach Ottis Gibson.