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After the end of the current Test series against New Zealand, the Indian team will tour South Africa for a 4-match T20 series. The Indian team will play its first T20 match on this tour on 8 November in Durban. After this the teams will go to Gakebarha for the second T20 match on 10th November. Then the remaining two batches will go to play in Centurion and Johannesburg. The special thing is that Team India led by Rohit Sharma lost the three-match Test series against New Zealand. Along with this, the team had to face defeat in Test series on home ground for 12 years. The third and last Test of the Test series between the two teams will be played in Mumbai. Before this match, there has been a big change in the coaching staff of the Indian team, where the team has changed the head coach.
Will not go on serious South Africa tour
Now a big news has come out regarding the South Africa tour. Head coach Gautam Gambhir will not be with the Indian team on this tour. The Indian team will leave for South Africa tour around 4th November. The Indian team will leave for Australia on November 11 for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. In such a situation, Gambhir will not be able to go to South Africa on Australia tour.
This veteran will be the head coach
In the absence of Gautam Gambhir, VVS Laxman will be the head coach of the Indian team on the South Africa tour. A top official of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) told Cricbuzz about the decision on Monday. The four-match T20 series was not initially scheduled, but the tour has been finalized after talks between BCCI and Cricket South Africa (CSA).
Change in coaching staff
Sairaj Bahutule, Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Subhdeep Ghosh will also be part of the coaching staff on the South Africa tour. Bahutul, Kanitkar and Ghosh coached the Indian team in the Emerging Asia Cup tournament held in Oman. At the same time, Sitanshu Kotak of Saurashtra and Mazhar Moidu of Kerala have gone to Australia with India A team.
The important thing is that whenever Rahul Dravid took a break, VVS Laxman was always in charge. The same is expected to continue in the Zimbabwe series to be held immediately after the T20 World Cup. VVS Laxman is the outgoing director of the National Cricket Academy (NCA). Not only this, he is also the head coach of the Under-19 men's team. Yash Dhool & Co. won the 2022 Under-19 World Cup under the coaching of VVS Laxman. Laxman has scored 8781 runs in 134 test matches at an average of 45.97. He has 2338 runs in his name in 86 ODI matches.
Who is in the Indian team for the T20 series against South?
Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vaishakh, Avesh Khan Yash Dayal.