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SA tour match moved from Kotla to Palam

September 11, 2015 20:33 IST

South Africa's warm-up game for the Twenty20 leg of their India tour has been shifted from Feroz Shah Kotla to the Palam ground with DDCA expressing their inability to host the match.

South Africa cricketThe match will now be played at Palam on September 29, ahead of the three T20 Internationals with Dharamsala staging the tour-opener on October 2.

Chetan Chauhan, former India opener and vice-president at the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA), said the state body had written to the BCCI stating their inability to host the warm-up after failing to get the required permissions from various authorities.

"We were not sure about how the pitch would play. Also, we could not get the permission from the municipal authorities in time for the game," said Chauhan.

Chauhan, however, assured that Kotla will be ready to host the fourth and final Test of the The Mahatma Gandhi-Nelson Mandela Trophy, starting on December 3.

Besides, the three T20s and four Tests, South Africa and India will also battle it out in five One-day Internationals.

 

Schedule:
Date Match Venue Time
Sep 29 Tour match Delhi 1330 IST
Oct 2 First T20I Dharamsala 1330 IST
Oct 5 Second T20I Cuttack 1330 IST
Oct 8 Third T20I Kolkata 1330 IST
Oct 11 First ODI Kanpur 0900 IST
Oct 14 Second ODI Indore 1330 IST
Oct 18 Third ODI Rajkot 1330 IST
Oct 22 Fourth ODI Chennai 1330 IST
Oct 25 Fifth ODI Mumbai (Wankhede)
1330 IST
Oct 30-31 Tour match Mumbai (CCI)
0930 IST
Nov 5-9 First Test Mohali 0930 IST
Nov 14-18 Second Test Bangalore 0930 IST
Nov 25-29 Third Test Nagpur 0930 IST
Dec 3-7 Fourth Test Delhi 0930 IST

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