The Itec Knights duo of Raynard van Tonder and Migael Pretorius will be in action for South Africa A, while the all-rounder Senuran Muthusamy, will be the North West Dragons representative.

The last time South Africa A played as during the recent tour to Zimbabwe and Van Tonder was forced to withdraw after testing positive for Covid-19.

South Africa will be led by the in-form Boland batter, Pieter Malan.

The first game in particular may be severely effected by rain with a lot of it predicted until the weekend.

Weather permitting the first unofficial Test gets underway at 10:00 on Tuesday morning at the Mangaung Oval.

 South Africa A - Pieter Malan (captain), Sarel Erwee, Dominic Hendricks, Raynard van Tonder, Sinethemba Qeshile, Senuran Muthusamy, Marco Jansen, Migael Pretorius, Beuran Hendricks, Lutho Sipamla, Glenton Stuurman, George Linde, Jason Smith, Tony de Zorzi.

India A - Priyank Panchal (captain), Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Sarfaraz Khan, B Aparajith, Upendra Yadav (wk), K Gowtham, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Umran Malik, Ishan Porel, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Ishan Kishan (wk), Deepak Chahar.

Morgan Piek OFM Sport