The Proteas have wasted no time in starting training for the first Test of their tour of Pakistan (@OfficialCSA)
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Touchdown for the Proteas as they arrived for their two-Test and three-T20I series against Pakistan on Saturday.
The Proteas have wasted no time in starting training for the first Test of their tour of Pakistan (@OfficialCSA)
Touchdown for the Proteas as they arrived for their two-Test and three-T20I series against Pakistan on Saturday.
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The first Test in Karachi starts on Tuesday, 26 January, while the second Test will be played in Rawalpindi from 4-8 February.
Thereafter the Proteas and Pakistan will engage in three T20Is on 11, 13 and 14 February in Lahore.
The Tests will start at 07:00 SA time each day, while the T20Is will begin at 12:30 SA time.
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For the 21-man Proteas squad it will be their first tour of Pakistan in 14 years.
On their last visit in 2007, the Proteas beat Pakistan by 160 runs in Karachi to win the Test series 1-0. Subsequent tours in 2010 and 2013 were played in the UAE.
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The squad underwent Covid-19 tests upon their arrival and had been quarantining in their hotel.
On Sunday, Cricket South Africa (CSA) confirmed that the entire squad had tested negative and training sessions could commence.
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SOUTH AFRICA SQUAD:
Quinton de Kock (captain), Temba Bavuma, Aiden Markram, Faf du Plessis, Dean Elgar, Kagiso Rabada, Dwaine Pretorius, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Rassie van der Dussen, Anrich Nortje, Wiaan Mulder, Lutho Sipamla, Beuran Hendricks, Kyle Verreynne, Sarel Erwee, Keegan Petersen, Tabraiz Shamsi, George Linde, Daryn Dupavillon, Marco Jansen
PAKISTAN SQUAD:
Babar Azam (captain), Abid Ali, Abdullah Shafique, Imran Butt, Azhar Ali, Fawad Alam, Kamran Ghulam, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Nauman Ali, Sajid Khan, Yasir Shah, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Tabish Khan
