South Africa's warm-up game for the Twenty20 leg of their India tour has been shifted from Feroz Shah Kotla to the Palam ground with DDCA expressing their inability to host the match.
The match will now be played at Palam on September 29, ahead of the three T20 Internationals with Dharamsala staging the tour-opener on October 2.
Chetan Chauhan, former India opener and vice-president at the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA), said the state body had written to the BCCI stating their inability to host the warm-up after failing to get the required permissions from various authorities.
"We were not sure about how the pitch would play. Also, we could not get the permission from the municipal authorities in time for the game," said Chauhan.
Chauhan, however, assured that Kotla will be ready to host the fourth and final Test of the The Mahatma Gandhi-Nelson Mandela Trophy, starting on December 3.
Besides, the three T20s and four Tests, South Africa and India will also battle it out in five One-day Internationals.
| Schedule: | |||
| Date | Match | Venue | Time |
| Sep 29 | Tour match | Delhi | 1330 IST |
| Oct 2 | First T20I | Dharamsala | 1330 IST |
| Oct 5 | Second T20I | Cuttack | 1330 IST |
| Oct 8 | Third T20I | Kolkata | 1330 IST |
| Oct 11 | First ODI | Kanpur | 0900 IST |
| Oct 14 | Second ODI | Indore | 1330 IST |
| Oct 18 | Third ODI | Rajkot | 1330 IST |
| Oct 22 | Fourth ODI | Chennai | 1330 IST |
| Oct 25 | Fifth ODI | Mumbai (Wankhede) |
1330 IST |
| Oct 30-31 | Tour match | Mumbai (CCI) |
0930 IST |
| Nov 5-9 | First Test | Mohali | 0930 IST |
| Nov 14-18 | Second Test | Bangalore | 0930 IST |
| Nov 25-29 | Third Test | Nagpur | 0930 IST |
| Dec 3-7 | Fourth Test | Delhi | 0930 IST |
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