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India Toughest Team To Beat, Says South Africa Spinner Harmer Ahead Of Test Tour

By IANS News October 23, 2025 • 18:50 PM View: 383

The World Test Champions: Veteran South African spinner Simon Harmer has termed India as the “toughest team to beat” in all formats of the game as the 35-year-old is expecting to be part of a quartet of spinners on the upcoming tour of India.

Harmer from Transvaal destroyed Pakistan with figures of 6-50 on Day Four of the second Test to give South Africa a comprehensive eight-wicket win in Rawalpindi on Thursday. The off-spinner said that he will be using the experience of bowling in Pakistan to succeed in India.

The World Test Champions will next head to India, where they play a two-Test series with the first Test in Kolkata from November 14.

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