After the crushing defeat against New Zealand, now the youth T20 team under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav will be tested against South Africa. Currently the Indian T20 team is on the tour of South Africa. A 4-match T20 series is to be played between the two teams. On this tour, the Indian team will play its first T20 match on 8 November in Durban. But Team India's head coach Gautam Gambhir will not be there in this series. Let us tell you, Gautam Gambhir will soon leave for Australia tour with the Indian Test team. In such a situation, a legendary head coach of South Africa will take over the responsibility.

This veteran became head coach for South Africa tour

Gautam Gambhir has not gone with the Indian team on the South Africa tour. In such a situation, in the absence of Gautam Gambhir, VVS Laxman is the head coach of the Indian team. Let us tell you, this T20 series of four matches was not decided earlier, but after talks between BCCI and Cricket South Africa, this tour was finalized, after which VVS Laxman was given this responsibility. This is not the first time, even before this VVS Laxman has been the head coach of the Indian team on many tours. Whenever Rahul Dravid took a break during his tenure, VVS Laxman took the responsibility in his place. This time also the responsibility of making the team win will be on him.

VVS Laxman is the head of the National Cricket Academy, apart from this he also works with the Under-19 team. The 2022 Under-19 World Cup was won by Yash Dhull and Company under the coaching of VVS Laxman. Let us tell you, along with Laxman, Sairaj Bahutule, Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Subhadeep Ghosh are also going to be seen in the coaching staff on the Africa tour. The first T20 match of this series will be held in Durban on 8 November. After this, the second T20 match will be played in Gakebarha on 10th November. Then the remaining two matches will be played in Centurion on 13 November and Johannesburg on 15 November.

Indian team for South Africa tour

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 Vaishak, Avesh Khan , Yash Dayal.