South African national cricket team in India in the 2015/16 season

The game series of the South African national cricket team in India in the 2015/16 season took place from October 2 to December 7, 2015. The international cricket tour was part of the 2015/16 international cricket season and included four test matches , five ODIs and three Twenty20s . South Africa won the ODI series 3–2 and the Twenty20 series with 2–0, while India won the Test series with 3–0.

Stages

Mohali New Delhi Dharamsala Cutack Indore Rajkot Kanpur Kolkata Nagpur Mumbai Bangalore Chennai

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on July 27, 2015.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Bangalore	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	42,000	2nd test
Chennai	MA Chidambaram Stadium	46,000	4. ODI
Cutack	Barabati Stadium	45,000	2. T20
Dharamsala	Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium	23,000	1. T20
Indore	Holkar Stadium	30,000	2. ODI
Kanpur	Green Park Stadium	33,000	1. ODI
Kolkata	Eden Gardens	82,000	3. T20
Mumbai	Wankhede Stadium	33,000	5. ODI
Mohali	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	35,000	1st test
Nagpur	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	45,000	3rd test
New Delhi	Feroz Shah Kotla	48,000	4th test
Rajkot	Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium	28,000	3. ODI

Squad lists

South Africa named its squad on September 15, 2015. India named its limited-overs squad on September 20, 2015 and its test squad on September 20, 2015.

test		ODI		Twenty20
India	South Africa	India	South Africa	India	South Africa
Virat Kohli ( K ) Varun Aaron Ravichandran Ashwin Stuart Binny Shikhar Dhawan Ravindra Jadeja Bhuvneshwar Kumar Amit Mishra Cheteshwar Pujara Ajinkya Rahane KL Rahul Wriddhiman Saha Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Murali Vijay Umesh Yadav	Hashim Amla ( K ) Kyle Abbott Marchant de Lange AB de Villiers Temba Bavuma JP Duminy Faf du Plessis Dean Elgar Simon Harmer Morne Morkel Vernon Philander Dane Piedt Kagiso Rabada Dale Steyn Imran Tahir Stiaan van Zyl Dane Vilas	MS Dhoni ( K ) Sreenath Aravind Ravichandran Ashwin Stuart Binny Shikhar Dhawan Virat Kohli Bhuvneshwar Kumar Amit Mishra Axar Patel Ajinkya Rahane Suresh Raina Ambati Rayudu Mohit Sharma Rohit Sharma Cucumber Council Singh Umesh Yadav Harbhajan Singh	AB de Villiers ( K ) Kyle Abbott Hashim Amla Farhaan Behardien Quinton de Kock ( wk ) JP Duminy Dean Elgar Faf du Plessis David Miller Morne Morkel Chris Morris Aaron Phangiso Kagiso Rabada Rilee Rossouw Dale Steyn Imran Tahir Khaya Zondo	MS Dhoni ( K ) Sreenath Aravind Ravichandran Ashwin Stuart Binny Shikhar Dhawan Virat Kohli Bhuvneshwar Kumar Amit Mishra Axar Patel Ajinkya Rahane Suresh Raina Ambati Rayudu Mohit Sharma Rohit Sharma Harbhajan Singh	Faf du Plessis ( K ) Kyle Abbott Hashim Amla Farhaan Behardien Quinton de Kock ( wk ) Marchant de Lange AB de Villiers JP Duminy Eddie Leie David Miller Albie Morkel Chris Morris Kagiso Rabada Imran Tahir David Wiese Khaya Zondo

Tour matches

November 29th scorecard	Palam	South Africans 189-3 (20)	-	India A 193-2 (19.4)
		India A wins with 8 wickets

October 30th - 31st scorecard	Mumbai	Indian Board President's XI 296 (78.5) & 92-0 (30)	-	South Africans 302 (69.2)
		draw

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Dharasalam

October 2nd scorecard	Dharamsala	India 199-5 (20)	-	South Africa 200-3 (19.4)
		South Africa wins with 7 wickets

Second Twenty20 in Cuttack

October 5th scorecard	Cutack	India 92 (17.4)	-	South Africa 96-4 (17.1)
		South Africa wins with 6 wickets

The game had to be interrupted twice due to objects being thrown by the audience.

Third Twenty20 in Kolkata

October 8th scorecard	Kolkata	India	-	South Africa
		No result

The game could not be started due to a wet outer field.

One-day internationals

First ODI in Kanpur

October 11th scorecard	Kanpur	South Africa 303-5 (50)	-	India 298-7 (50)
		South Africa wins with 5 runs

The South African players were fined for playing too slowly. The Indian team manager Vinod Phadke was also fined.

Second ODI in Indore

October 14 scorecard	Indore	India 247-9 (50)	-	South Africa 225 (43.3)
		India wins with 22 runs

Third ODI in Rajkot

October 18 scorecard	Rajkot	South Africa 270-7 (50)	-	India 252-6 (50)
		South Africa wins with 18 runs

Fourth ODI in Chennai

October 22nd scorecard	Chennai	India 299-8 (50)	-	South Africa 264-9 (50)
		India wins with 35 runs

Fifth ODI in Mumbai

October 25 scorecard	Mumbai	South Africa 438-4 (50)	-	India 224 (35.5)
		South Africa wins with 214 runs

Testing

First test in Mohali

November 5-9 Scorecard	Mohali	India 201 (68) & 200 (75.3)	-	South Africa 184 (68) & 109 (39.5)
		India wins with 108 runs

Second test in Bangalore

November 14-18 Scorecard	Bangalore	South Africa 214 (59)	-	India 80-0 (22)
		draw

Due to rainfalls, it was only possible to play on the first day.

Third test in Nagpur

November 25-27 Scorecard	Nagpur	India 215 (78.2) & 173 (46.3)	-	South Africa 79 (33.1) & 185 (89.5)
		India wins with 124 runs

Fourth test in Delhi

December 3-7 Scorecard	New Delhi	India 334 (117.5) & 267-5d (100.1)	-	South Africa 121 (49.3) & 143 (143.1)
		India wins with 337 runs

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Ajinkya Rahane	India	4th	6th	266	53.20	127	2	0
AB de Villiers	South Africa	4th	7th	258	36.85	85	0	2
Murali Vijay	India	4th	7th	210	35.00	75	0	1
Cheteshwar Pujara	India	4th	6th	202	33.66	77	0	1
Virat Kohli	India	4th	6th	200	33.33	88	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Ravichandran Ashwin	India	4th	164.4	31	11.12	7/66	4th	1
Ravindra Jadeja	India	4th	140.5	23	10.82	5/21	2	0
Imran Tahir	South Africa	4th	95	14th	21.35	5/38	1	0
Simon Harmer	South Africa	2	83.2	10	25.40	4/61	0	0
Morné Morkel	South Africa	3	78.1	9	20.66	3/19	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
AB de Villiers	South Africa	5	5	358	89.50	119	3	0
Faf du Plessis	South Africa	5	5	323	80.75	133 *	1	3
Quinton de Kock	South Africa	5	5	318	63.60	109	2	0
Rohit Sharma	India	5	5	255	51.00	150	1	1
Ajinkya Rahane	India	5	5	247	49.40	87	0	3
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Kagiso Rabada	South Africa	5	47	10	24.10	4/41	0	0
Dale Steyn	South Africa	5	47	10	26.70	3/38	0	0
Morné Morkel	South Africa	3	30th	7th	18.85	4/39	0	0
Imran Tahir	South Africa	5	46	7th	36.85	2/42	0	0
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	India	5	48.4	7th	49.57	3/41	0	0

Twenty20s
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Rohit Sharma	India	2	2	128	64.00	106	1	0
JP Duminy	South Africa	2	2	98		68 *	0	1
AB de Villiers	South Africa	2	2	70	35.00	51	0	1
Virat Kohli	India	2	2	44	22.00	43	0	0
Farhaan Behardien	South Africa	2	2	43	43.00	32 *	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Ravichandran Ashwin	India	2	8th	4th	12.50	3/24	0	0
Albie Morkel	South Africa	1	4th	3	4.00	3/12	0	0
Chris Morris	South Africa	2	6.2	3	20.66	2/16	0	0
Kyle Abbott	South Africa	2	7th	2	25.00	2/29	0	0
Imran Tahir	South Africa	2	7th	2	29.50	2/24	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Ravichandran Ashwin
ODI	AB de Villiers
T20	JP Duminy

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. T20	JP Duminy
2. T20	Albie Morkel
1. ODI	AB de Villiers
2. ODI	MS Dhoni
3. ODI	Morné Morkel
4. ODI	Virat Kohli
5. ODI	Quinton de Kock
1st test	Ravindra Jadeja
3rd test	Ravichandran Ashwin
4th test	Ajinkya Rahane

controversy

During the tour, after the 3rd ODI in Mumbai, there were anti-Pakistani protests by the regional political party Shiv Sena , during which the local office of the Indian Association was stormed. The aim of the protests was to cancel the planned tour of India against Pakistan later in the year . As a consequence, the Pakistani referee Aleem Dar, who was already on duty in the first three ODIs, left before his assignments in the remaining ODIs. The same applied to former Pakistani players Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar, who were present as media representatives .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SA to play four tests on 72-day India tour . Cricinfo. July 27, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
2. ↑ Firdose MOONDA: Tahir, Dane Piedt return to SA Test squad . Cricinfo. September 10, 2015. Accessed November 22, 2015.
3. ↑ India pick Gurkeerat for ODIs, Aravind for T20Is . Cricinfo. September 20, 2015. Accessed November 22, 2015.
4. ↑ India pick Gurkeerat for ODIs, Aravind for T20Is . Cricinfo. September 20, 2015. Accessed November 22, 2015.
5. ↑ Crowd trouble takes center stage in Cuttack . Cricinfo. October 5, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
6. ↑ Firdose Moonda: Wet outfield ruins Eden Gardens T20I . Cricinfo. October 8, 2015. Accessed November 22, 2015.
7. ^ South Africa fined for slow over rate . Cricinfo. October 12, 2015. Accessed November 22, 2015.
8. ↑ India team manager fined for 'inappropriate comments' . Cricinfo. October 15, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
9. ^ Sidharth Monga: Bangalore Test ends with four washout days . Cricinfo. November 18, 2015. Accessed November 22, 2015.
10. ↑ Freedom Trophy, 2015/16 / Records / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
11. ↑ Freedom Trophy, 2015/16 / Records / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
12. ^ South Africa in India ODI Series, 2015/16 / Records / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
13. ↑ South Africa in India ODI Series, 2015/16 / Records / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
14. ↑ South Africa in India T20I Series, 2015/16 / Records / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
15. ^ South Africa in India T20I Series, 2015/16 / Records / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
16. ↑ Amol Karhadkar: BCCI-PCB talks hit by anti-Pakistan protest . Cricinfo. October 19, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
17. ↑ BCCI-PCB talks hit by anti-Pakistan protest . Cricinfo. October 19, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.