South Africa have not won a Test match in India for 15 years but there’s a “real hunger and desire” to put an end to it in the upcoming series, said spinner Keshav Maharaj while describing it as one of their toughest tours.

India and South Africa will lock horns in a two-match Test series from November 14, with Kolkata and Guwahati playing hosts.

Acknowledging the magnitude of the challenge ahead of South Africa, Maharaj said during an online interaction, “There’s a real hunger and desire within the camp to beat India in India. It’s probably one of the toughest tours, if not the toughest in the Proteas calendar, for the various generations that have come (here).

“We feel like it’s one of our biggest tests. And it will be a wonderful opportunity to grade ourselves, to see how far we’ve come slowly.

“We have started to conquer other parts of the subcontinent. And I feel like this is one assignment that we really, really want to take.”

Despite being one of the most consistent sides in Test cricket in recent years, South Africa drew a blank in both of their last two series in India, in 2015 and 2019.

( With PTI Inputs )