South Africa is still in the dark about the itinerary for the India tour, scheduled this November, an official of the country's cricket board said.

Brian Basson, manager Cricket Affairs in the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA) said the Board has not received any communication as yet regarding the itinerary from its Indian counterpart.

Basson, who returned after attending the International Cricket Council meeting in London, said the UCB has no inkling about the venues for the two-Test series.

"Because of lack of official confirmation, South Africa still doesn't know when and where the two Tests against India would be played," he was quoted as saying in local media on Friday.

When South Africa last toured India in 2000 under the captaincy of the late Hansie Cronje, two Tests were played, in Mumbai and Bangalore. South Africa won both. It was the first home series defeat for India in 13 years.

Basson said during the ICC meeting he held talks with his Australian counterpart, who also indicated that they too had not received details about their tour that takes place in October.

Basson said both his Australian counterpart and he found it strange that they just received details of the scheduled warm-up matches.

He said the Australian officials, who attended the meeting, wanted the final programme in order to give their security personnel a chance to visit India before the tour.

South Africa's tour of India has already received a great deal of negative publicity in the country, especially because of reports that claimed that India is giving preferential treatment to the Australian tour.

Earlier, India and South Africa were set to play only seven one-dayers during the tour but later it was changed to two Tests following talks between BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya and UCB chief Ray Mali.