[4] South Africa's David Wiese was ruled out of the T20I series with a fractured hand and was replaced by Albie Morkel.

[8] Rilee Rossouw was ruled out of the ODI series following a stress fracture to his foot and was replaced by Khaya Zondo.

[10] Vernon Philander was ruled out of the last three Test matches after suffering an ankle injury and was replaced by Kyle Abbott.

[11] Marchant de Lange was added to South Africa's Test squad as cover for Dale Steyn.

Opting to bat first after winning to toss, India got off to a poor start losing Rohit Sharma in the second over.

After Shikhar Dhawan was dismissed in the 13th over, wickets kept falling at regular intervals at the other end of MS Dhoni, who finished unbeaten at 92 off 86 balls.

It lost wickets at regular intervals before being dismissed for 225 in the 44th of its innings, with Axar Patel finishing off with his career-best figures of 3/39, from his 10 overs.

David Miller was sent to open the innings for the first time in the series with Quinton de Kock, who put on 72 runs together.

Losing wickets at the other end at regular intervals, his partnership with Farhaan Behardien of 56 runs was the highest of the South African innings.

[17] On a pitch which looked heavily in favour of spinners, Virat Kohli won the toss and India elected to bat.

However, the Indian spinners stuck to make sure that South Africa, despite AB de Villiers's 63, conceded a lead of 17 runs.

The Indian spinners led by Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja bowled South Africa out for 109 to hand India a 108 run victory.

India included Stuart Binny and Ishant Sharma in place of Amit Mishra and Umesh Yadav.

India in their 2nd innings on back of second century for Rahane and a fighting 88 from captain Virat Kohli, declared at 267 to set South Africa a target of 481.

However, a marathon blockathon from Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis and Temba Bavuma could not help South Africa, as India won by 337 runs in the final session of the series.

On the morning of 19 October, BCCI president Shashank Manohar and PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan were to discuss a proposed India-Pakistan series in December.

Just before the meeting, a group of 50 workers from the Shiv Sena, a political party, stormed into the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai, shouting anti-Pakistan slogans and demanding the cancellation of the series.

Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar, a part of the commentary team, decided to leave India before the fifth ODI at Mumbai.