The 2017 South Africa A Team Tri-Series was a cricket tournament that took place in South Africa in July and August 2017. It was a tri-nation series between South Africa A, Afghanistan A and India A. The one-day matches were played as List A fixtures. Following the List A fixtures, South Africa A and India A played two four-day games with first-class status, also called unofficial Tests.
Originally, Australia A were scheduled to play in the series, but they withdrew in early July following an ongoing pay dispute with Cricket Australia. Later that month, Afghanistan A was named their replacement after the national team had been awarded test match status the previous month.
India A won the tri-series, beating South Africa A by 7 wickets in the competition's final. The first-class series was drawn 1–1, with South Africa A winning the first match and India A winning the second.
List A series Squads Afghanistan A India A South Africa A Shafiqullah (c) Afsar Zazai (wk) Usman Ghani Javed Ahmadi Rahmat Shah Younas Ahmadzai Nasir Jamal Najibullah Zadran Karim Janat Sharafuddin Ashraf Yamin Ahmadzai Fareed Ahmad Ihsanullah Younas Ahmadzai Nawaz Khan Mohammad Ibrahim Manish Pandey (c) Mandeep Singh Shreyas Iyer Sanju Samson Deepak Hooda Karun Nair Krunal Pandya Rishabh Pant (wk) Vijay Shankar Axar Patel Yuzvendra Chahal Jayant Yadav Basil Thampi Mohammed Siraj Shardul Thakur Siddarth Kaul Khaya Zondo (c) Farhaan Behardien Junior Dala Henry Davids Beuran Hendricks Reeza Hendricks Heinrich Klaasen Mangaliso Mosehle Willem Mulder Dane Paterson Aaron Phangiso Dwaine Pretorius Tabraiz Shamsi Jason Smith Jon-Jon Smuts
1st match
2nd match
3rd match
4th match
5th match
6th match
Final
First-class series Squads India A South Africa A Karun Nair (c) Priyank Panchal Abhinav Mukund Shreyas Iyer Ankit Bawne Sudip Chatterjee Ishan Kishan (wk) Hanuma Vihari Jayant Yadav Shahbaz Nadeem Navdeep Saini Mohammed Siraj Shardul Thakur Aniket Choudhary Ankit Rajpoot Ravikumar Samarth Aiden Markram (c) Stephen Cook Junior Dala Beuran Hendricks Heinrich Klaasen David Miller Duanne Olivier Dane Paterson Andile Phehlukwayo Dane Piedt Omphile Ramela Rudi Second Jason Smith Shaun von Berg Khaya Zondo Ravikumar Samarth replaced Abhinav Mukund following the former's selection to the India squad for the Sri Lanka tour.
1st unofficial Test
2nd unofficial Test
References
External links List A series home at ESPNcricinfo First-class series home at ESPNcricinfo