INDIAN CRICKET TEAM IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 2006-07

The 'Indian cricket team' toured 'South Africa' for three Tests and five ODIs from November 16 2006 to January 6 2007.
South Africa won the Test series 2:1. After India won the first Test at New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa rallied to win the 2nd Test at Kingsmead in Durban and the third Test at Newlands in Cape Town.
South Africa won the ODI series 4–0, which was India's first ODI series without a win since 1997.
There was also one Twenty20 International, which India won.

Contents

Schedule

Squads

Limited Over Matches

Tour Match: South Africa A v Indians, 16 November

1st ODI: 19 November

2nd ODI: 22 November

3rd ODI: 26 November

4th ODI: 29 November

Twenty20 International: 1 December

5th ODI: 3 December

First Class Matches

Tour Match: Rest of South Africa v Indians (7-10 December)

First Test (15-19 December)

Second Test (26-30 December)

Third Test (2-6 January)

Notes

External links

Schedule

No.	Date	Home captain	Away captain	Venue	Result
Tour Games
One Day	16 Nov 2006	Ashwell Prince	Rahul Dravid	Willowmoore Park	Rest of SA won by 37 runs
FC match	7-10 Dec 2006	Jacques Rudolph	VVS Laxman	Sedgars Park	won by 96 runs
One-day International Series
1st ODI	19 Nov 2006	Graeme Smith	Rahul Dravid	New Wanderers Stadium	Match abandoned due to rain.
2nd ODI	22 Nov 2006	Graeme Smith	Rahul Dravid	Kingsmead	won by 157 runs
3rd ODI	26 Nov 2006	Graeme Smith	Rahul Dravid	Newlands	won by 106 runs
4th ODI	29 Nov 2006	Graeme Smith	Virender Sehwag	St George's Park	won by 80 runs
5th ODI	3 Dec 2006	Graeme Smith	Virender Sehwag	SuperSport Park	won by 9 wickets
Twenty20 International
1st 20/20	1 Dec 2006	Graeme Smith	Virender Sehwag	New Wanderers Stadium	won by 6 wickets
Test Series
1st Test	15-19 Dec 2006	Graeme Smith	Rahul Dravid	New Wanderers Stadium	won by 123 runs
2nd Test	26-30 Dec 2006	Graeme Smith	Rahul Dravid	Kingsmead	won by 174 runs
3rd Test	2-6 Jan 2007	Graeme Smith	Rahul Dravid	Newlands	won by 5 wickets

Squads

'Indian ODI Squad'[1]	Flag of India
Rahul Dravid (Captain) | Sachin Tendulkar | Virender Sehwag | Suresh Raina | Mohammad Kaif | Ajit Agarkar | Dinesh Mongia | Harbhajan SinghAnil Kumble | Wasim Jaffer | Zaheer Khan | Mahendra Dhoni (wk) | Irfan Pathan | Munaf Patel | Dinesh Karthik (wk) | S Sreesanth | VVS Laxman [2]

'Indian Test Squad'[3]	Flag of India
Rahul Dravid (Captain) | Sachin Tendulkar | Virender Sehwag | VRV Singh | | Sourav Ganguly | Gautam Gambhir | Harbhajan SinghAnil Kumble | Wasim Jaffer | Zaheer Khan | Irfan Pathan ★ | Mahendra Dhoni (wk) | Munaf Patel | Dinesh Karthik (wk) | S Sreesanth | VVS Laxman

★ Irfan Pathan sent back home before the second test due to poor bowling form.

'South Africa ODI Squad'[4]	Flag of South Africa
Graeme Smith (Captain) | Loots Bosman | Mark Boucher (wk) | AB de Villiers (wk) | Boeta Dippenaar[5] | Herschelle GibbsAndrew Hall | Justin Kemp | Jacques Kallis | Charl Langeveldt | Andre Nel | Makhaya Ntini | Robin Peterson | Shaun Pollock | Ashwell Prince

'South Africa Test Squad'[6]	Flag of South Africa
Graeme Smith (Captain) | Jacques Kallis | Mark Boucher (wk) | Abraham de Villiers | Jacques Rudolph | Herschelle GibbsAndrew Hall | Nicky Boje | Paul Adams | Dale Steyn | Andre Nel | Makhaya Ntini | Hashim Amla | Shaun Pollock | Ashwell Prince

Limited Over Matches

Tour Match: South Africa A v Indians, 16 November

1st ODI: 19 November

The first ODI was rained out without a ball being bowled, due to persistent rain in Johannesburg^[7].

2nd ODI: 22 November

3rd ODI: 26 November

4th ODI: 29 November

Virender Sehwag captained India after Rahul Dravid was ruled out for rest of the series following an injury. South Africa recovered from a bad start to reach 243 at the end of 50 overs. Gibbs remained unbeaten on 93 while Kallis and Pollock chipped in with 49 and 37 respectively. Anil Kumble was the best bowler for India on the day picking up 2 wickets for 42 runs. Chasing 244 under lights, India got off to a steady start losing their first wicket in the 6th over with 23 runs on the board. Wickets fell at regular intervals and this meant that India never had a chance of overhauling the South African score. Irfan Pathan was the pick of the batsmen scoring 47 runs.

Twenty20 International: 1 December

India pulled off its first victory of the tour with a close Twenty20 win after Dinesh Karthik steered India towards victory with a controlled innings by Twenty20 standards. This was India's first Twenty20 International ever.

5th ODI: 3 December

India put on another abyssmal batting performance scoring just 200 off the allocated 50 overs. Sachin Tendulkar topscored for the visitors with a sedate 55 off 97 balls. Mongia and Dhoni chipped in with useful 40's.
South Africa reached the target in just 31.2 overs. Pollock was named Man of the Match for his bowling performance which included 4 maidens and 2 wickets.
With this victory, South Africa wrapped up the series 4-0 with the first game washed out.

First Class Matches

Tour Match: Rest of South Africa v Indians (7-10 December)

First Test (15-19 December)

India beat South Africa by 123 runs and took a 1-0 lead in the series. This was also India's first test victory in South African soil.

Second Test (26-30 December)

Third Test (2-6 January)

Notes

1. Jaffer, Zaheer and Kumble added to ODI squad, retrieved from Cricinfo, 30 October 2006
2. VVS Laxman was flown in as a replacement for Dravid follwoing an injury during the 3rd ODI
3. Ganguly in, Laxman appointed vice-captain, retrieved from Cricinfo, 30 November 2006
4. South Africa name unchanged squad, retrieved from BBC, 8 November 2006
5. Prince replaced Dippenaar for the last 2 ODIs
6. South Africa announce Test squad, retrieved from Cricinfo, 7 December 2006
7. 1st ODI : Bulletin, retrieved from Cricinfo, 19 November 2006

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