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SA A passed fit for Australia A clash

The ten members of the South Africa A touring party who were hospitalised for food poisoning, have been discharged and the players have been cleared fit to face Australia A tomorrow

The ten members of the South Africa A touring party who were hospitalised for food poisoning have been discharged, and the players have been cleared fit to play their match against Australia A.
That clash was to be held on Tuesday, but it is understood that even though they had recovered, the South African players wanted an extra day of rest, and so the match will instead be held on Wednesday. As a result, the final group match, between India A and South Africa A has also been pushed back by a day, to Thursday. The final will take place on Friday as originally planned.
As per the original schedule, South Africa A were to play Australia A today, but a CSA press release yesterday said the squad had been "ravaged by food poisoning."
Half the side had taken ill prior to South Africa A's game against India A on Sunday. However, the likes of Reeza Hendricks, Omphile Ramela and Mthokozisi Shehzi still had to play because the team did not even have 11 men to put on the park, and they ended up aggravating their problems. Quinton de Kock, who had only flown in to Chennai on Saturday afternoon, scored a gritty century, but he too suffered from cramps and had to be withdrawn from the field in the 32nd over of the second innings.
Things were so dire that South Africa A's video analyst Hendrikus Coertzen and India A's Mandeep Singh had to be roped in as substitute fielders. South Africa A's reserves list for the game included Wayne Parnell, Beuran Hendricks, Cameron Delport, Cody Chetty and Keshav Maharaj, but only Hendricks and Maharaj came out as substitute fielders.
*17:20 GMT: This story was updated following the change in fixtures

Alagappan Muthu is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo