First Test Between India and South Africa!
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Match Drawn!
Live Score: South Africa Second Innings 331/5 (109.0 Overs) McKenzie 155*, Boucher 11*, De Villiers 11, Prince 5, Kallis 19, Amla 81, Smith 35
India 627 All Out (155.1 Overs) Laxman 39, Sreesanth 4*, RP Singh 0, Harbhajan 0, Kumble 3, Dhoni 16, Dravid 111, Ganguly 24, Sachin 0, Sehwag 319, Jaffer 73
South Africa First Innings: 540 All Out (152.5 Overs) Ntini 0*, Steyn 15, Harris 5, Morkel 35, Boucher 70, Amla 159, AB De Villiers 44, Prince 23, Kallis 13, McKenzie 94, Smith 73
Fifth Day of Play:
Sehwag strikes and De Villiers is back in the pavilion.
Harbhajan has taken two wickets today along with one wicket by Kumble, and McKenzie has completed his century too and match is proceeding for a draw.
Fourth Day of Play:
Here is the stump of the fourth day. South Africa has taken a lead of 44 runs. Match is most probably going for a draw.
Harbhajan Singh took the wicket of Smith, SA is now 53 for the loss of one wicket.
Indian inning finished at 627 taking a lead of 87 runs.
Now India has lost the ninth wicket too in the form of RP Singh.
Dhoni departs, Steyn took his wicket, India is now 6 down and they have a lead of 58 runs.
Dravid departs. Ntini took his wicket.
What a way to complete his century Dravid hit Ntini for a boundary and completes his century.
That is the lunch of the fourth day of play. India is now at 547 for the loss of four wickets and Dravid is there at 99.
4th wicket of India fell in the form of Ganguly. Harris took his wicket.
That is the 10,000 run of Dravid. Congrats.
Ntini strikes and South Africa got two cool wickets. Sehwag got out at 319 and then Sachin also got out at duck.
Third Day of Play:
And it is the end of the third day of play. India has made 468 runs with the loss of only wicket of Jaffer. The way Sehwag is batting India can make a huge first inning lead and South Africa are now on back foot.
And it is the 300 by the dashing opener Virender Sehwag.
Now he is at 299.
Fifth six by Sehwag and he has reached to 297 now just three run short of his second 300.
400 runs for India is completed. Sehwag is batting superly at 273.
India has came out from the danger of follow on.
That’s the double century of Sehwag.
Sehwag has completed 150 runs and now we can hope for a double ton from this man.
Second Day of Play:
Superb start by Team India.
That’s the fifty for Indian Team.
Second six of Indian innings but this time by Jaffer.
Nice six by Sehwag.
And that’s the end of the first inning of South Africa they got all out at 540, which is quite good. Harbhajan took five wickets haul.
Harbhajan took his fourth victim and Harris departs.
Harbhajan Singh this time. Morkel departs.
This time Sehwag did the magic for India. Boucher is out now. SA is seven down now.
Its the tea of the second day of play.
That’s the fifty for Boucher.
Finally Amla departs, a great run out. Africa are six down now.
150 runs by Amla, nice effort.
That is the lunch for the second day. The first session was dominated by South Africa, they made 100 runs in this inning and lost only one wicket.
400 runs of Africa for the loss of only 5 wickets in 111.1 overs.
First hour has seen one wicket goes down of South Africa, De Villiers departs while Sreesanth took his wicket.
First Day of Play:
And that is the stump of the first day of play of India and South Africa first cricket test. The first day was dominated by South Africa, they made 304 for the loss of 4 wickets only. Out of those four wickets Kumble took 2 and Bhajji took 2. A great contest going on between these two team and hopefully we can watch the same type of cricket for coming four days too.
Prince departs, Kumble took his wicket.
Harbhajan strikes, and Kallis has gone. South Africa is now three down.
And that is the tea of the first day of play. India took two wickets, each by Bhajji and Kumble. Both the openers are now back to the pavilion.
Harbhajan this time and McKenzie departs just six short of his consecutive century.
It is too hot in Chennai and after lunch players had taken two drink breaks in between 18 Overs.
Finally Kumble got the first wicket of Smith.
That’s the lunch of the first day of play between India and South Africa first test. South Africa made 109 for no loss in 25 Overs. Smith and McKenzie are playing superbly.
100 runs partnership between Smith and McKenzie, and Indian bowling attack seems hopeless at this moment.
South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first. The Indian team for this match is consist of Virender Sehwag, Waseem Jaffer, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh, and S Sreesanth. South African team has Smith, McKenzie, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AG Prince, AB de Villiers, MV Boucher, M Morkel, PL Harris, DW Steyn, and M Ntini.
Post Match Preview:
South Africa is the team which has defeated Pakistan recnetly and then defeated West Indies on their home soli and after that white washed the series against Bangladesh. They are willing to defeat India in India and their performance against India in India is the best among the all other teams of the world.
Team India on the other hand is going through the best ever form, they recently won the World Cup of T20, and then they have defeated Australia in Australia in CB series. So the fight between these two will really be something to watch.