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Xtra Time Web Desk: South Africa and India will start their three-match test series later this month on December 26 with a Boxing Day fixture at Super Sport Park in Centurion, Cricket South Africa confirmed on Monday.

The second test will be staged at the Wanderers in Johannesburg from January 3-7, with the third at Newlands in Cape Town from January 11-15 in a revised itinerary after India requested to arrive a week later than originally planned for the tour.

The teams will also contest in a three match ODI series between January 19-23, with the first two games played in Paarl and the third in Cape Town.

The test series will form part of the ICC World Test Championship cycle, while the ODIs will count towards the Super League, the qualification tournament for the 2023 World Cup.

A revised schedule, which has done away with four Twenty20 Internationals that had originally been pencilled in, was agreed over the weekend after India had expressed reservations about touring due to the discovery of the Omicron Covid-19 variant in in South Africa.

Test series fixtures:

1^st Test: December 26-30 at Centurion Park, Pretoria

2^nd Test: January 3-7 at The Wanderers, Johannesburg

3^rd Test: January 11-15 Third Test at Newlands, Cape Town

ODI series fixtures

1st ODI: January 19 at Boland Park, Paarl
2nd ODI: January 21 at Boland Park, Paarl

3rd ODI: January 23 at Newlands, Cape Town