India will host South Africa for a 2 month long tour starting with 3 twenty20 matches and 5 one day matches followed by 4 test matches. The tour will start on 12 October with the first of three T20 matches and BCCI will announce the Twenty20 and One Day Squads on 20th September 2015 with the press conference scheduled to take place midday on Sunday. The test squad will be announced after the ODI Series has finished.
T20 & ODI Squads Announcement for South Africa Series: BCCI will announce the squads on Sunday, 20th September 2015 and once the official list is released we will update the entire India squads of both format right on this page. MS Dhoni is sure to lead in both formats with Kohli acting as his deputy. Below is the expected squads for both T20 and ODI and once the squad list is made public sunday we will update this page.
| NO# | T20 SQUAD | ODI SQUAD | TEST |
| 1 | MS Dhoni (Captain) | MS Dhoni (Captain) (wk) | To be announced later |
| 2 | Virat Kohli (VC) | Virat Kohli | |
| 3 | Shikhar Dhawan | Shikhar Dhawan | |
| 4 | Ajinka Rehane | Ajinka Rehane | |
| 5 | Suresh Raina | Rohit Sharma | |
| 6 | Rohit Sharma | Cheteshwar Pujara | |
| 7 | Stuart Binny | KL Rahul | |
| 8 | Ravindra Jadeja | Murali Vijay | |
| 9 | Muhammad Shami | Umesh Yadav | |
| 10 | Sanju Sapson | Ishant Sharma | |
| 11 | Mohit Sharma | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | |
| 12 | Karn Sharma | Varun Aaron | |
| 13 | Umesh Yadaf | Ravichandran Ashwin | |
| 14 | Ravi Ashwin | Harbhajan Singh | |
| 15 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Amit Mishra |
India Test Squad For South Africa Series ?: The Test squad will be announced after the 4th ODI has been played. Kohli will captain India for 4 match test series schedule to take place immediately after T20 and ODI Series.