Factbox: South Africa v India Test series

Factbox on the first test between South Africa and India, which begins on Tuesday:

WHEN?

Dec. 26-30 (10:00 a.m. local time/0800 GMT)

WHERE?

Centurion Park, Pretoria (22,000 capacity)

MATCH OFFICIALS

Umpires: Paul Reiffel (Australia), Langton Rusere (Zimbabwe)

Third umpire: Ahsan Raza (Pakistan)

Match referee: Chris Broad

SOUTH AFRICA

World ranking: 4

Coach: Shukri Conrad

Captain: Temba Bavuma

Squad: Temba Bavuma, David Bedingham, Nandre Burger, Gerald Coetzee, Tony de Zorzi, Dean Elgar, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, Wiaan Mulder, Lungi Ngidi, Keegan Petersen, Kagiso Rabada, Tristan Stubbs and Kyle Verreynne.

INDIA

World ranking: 1

Coach: Rahul Dravid

Captain: Rohit Sharma

Squad: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, KS Bharat, Abhimanyu Easwaran.

Why did ICC bar Usman Khawaja from having peace symbol on bat?

MELBOURNE: Australia’s Usman Khawaja has been denied permission to place a peace symbol on his bat and shoes for the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan, reports said Sunday. A sticker showing a black dove and the words 01:UDHR — a reference to Article One of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — was on his bat and shoes during training in Melbourne on Sunday. The star batter had multiple meetings with Cricket Australia over recent days to find a message that would be appropriate for the second Test this week, local media said. But his latest humanitarian gesture has been

PREVIOUS CENTURION PARK TESTS

2010 – South Africa won by an innings and 25 runs

2018 – South Africa won by 135 runs

2021 – India won by 113 runs

RECORD IN SOUTH AFRICA

Played 23

South Africa won 12

India won 4

Drawn 7

OVERALL RECORD

Played 42

South Africa won 17

India won 15

Drawn 10