NEW DELHI — Jemimah Rodrigues has been named in all three India squads for the all-format tour of South Africa in December, completing her return from the hamstring injury she picked up playing in The Hundred in England, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Monday, November 9. BCCI Honorary Secretary Devajit Saikia confirmed the announcement.

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Rodrigues suffered a high-grade tear in her right hamstring while playing for Southern Brave in The Hundred and subsequently missed India's assignments in the Asia Cup and the Asian Games. Her last India appearance came in the one-off Test at Lord's in July. She proved her fitness in the domestic T20 tournament before the selectors brought her back.

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1Test — at Gqeberha from December 9, India's first-ever Test against South Africa
3ODIs — in Paarl, Cape Town and Bloemfontein, December 16-22, part of the ICC Women's Championship 2025-29
3T20Is — in Benoni and Potchefstroom, December 26, 29 and 30
15 / 15 / 17players named in the Test, ODI and T20I squads respectively

Smriti Mandhana will captain India across all three formats and will lead the Test side for the first time. Deepti Sharma is her deputy in the Test and ODI squads, while Shafali Verma is vice-captain for the T20Is.

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All-rounder Amanjot Kaur, out since playing for India in February in Australia during a long injury layoff, returns only for the T20Is. Fast bowler Renuka Singh Thakur has also been picked only for the T20I squad. Shreyanka Patil has been dropped from the T20I squad, with the selectors citing India's spin options in Deepti Sharma, Sree Charani and Prema Rawat.

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Test squad: Smriti Mandhana (captain), Shafali Verma, Pratika Rawal, Harmanpreet Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harleen Deol, Richa Ghosh, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma (vice-captain), Sree Charani, Sneh Rana, Kranti Gaud, Nandni Sharma, Jintimani Kalita and Sayali Satghare. The ODI squad swaps Sneh Rana for Vaishnavi Sharma. The T20I squad adds Niki Prasad, G. Kamalini, Anushka Sharma, Prema Rawat, Amanjot Kaur, Renuka Singh Thakur and Arundhati Reddy.

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Why the ODIs carry extra weight

The three one-day internationals form part of the ICC Women's Championship 2025-29 cycle, which determines qualification for the 2029 Women's Cricket World Cup — so points in Paarl, Cape Town and Bloemfontein count well beyond this tour.

What happens next: the tour opens with the one-off Test in Gqeberha on December 9 — India's first-ever Test match against South Africa — before the ODI series begins in Paarl on December 16 and the T20Is close the trip at the end of December.