RESULT
1st Test, Centurion, December 16 - 20, 2010, India tour of South Africa
India 1st Innings
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gautam Gambhir | c Harris b Morkel | 5 | 43 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 11.62 | ||
| Virender Sehwag | c Amla b Steyn | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Rahul Dravid | lbw b Morkel | 14 | 42 | 61 | 2 | 0 | 33.33 | ||
| Sachin Tendulkar | lbw b Steyn | 36 | 34 | 61 | 8 | 0 | 105.88 | ||
| VVS Laxman | b Steyn | 7 | 20 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 35.00 | ||
| Suresh Raina | c Prince b Kallis | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | ||
| MS Dhoni (c)† | lbw b Morkel | 33 | 50 | 87 | 2 | 2 | 66.00 | ||
| Harbhajan Singh | run out (Petersen/†Boucher) | 27 | 25 | 40 | 4 | 1 | 108.00 | ||
| Ishant Sharma | c Kallis b Morkel | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Sreesanth | c Steyn b Morkel | 0 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Jaydev Unadkat | not out | 1 | 5 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | ||
| Extras | (lb 6, nb 3, w 3) | 12 | |||||||
| TOTAL | 38.4 Ov (RR: 3.51, 202 Mts) | 136 | |||||||
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Virender Sehwag, 2.1 ov), 2-24 (Gautam Gambhir, 12.6 ov), 3-27 (Rahul Dravid, 14.4 ov), 4-66 (VVS Laxman, 22.2 ov), 5-67 (Suresh Raina, 23.1 ov), 6-71 (Sachin Tendulkar, 24.4 ov), 7-110 (Harbhajan Singh, 32.1 ov), 8-110 (Ishant Sharma, 32.3 ov), 9-116 (Sreesanth, 34.5 ov), 10-136 (MS Dhoni, 38.4 ov) | |||||||||
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dale Steyn | 10 | 1 | 34 | 3 | 3.40 | 48 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2.1 to V Sehwag, Steyn 1, Sehwag 0! Sehwag left the first two go in the first over. Can't hold back this time. Gets one on a length, landing outside off and moving away a touch. He tries to go up and over with the upper cut. Hashim Amla was lurking at third man, not all the way back to the boundary. He was there specifically for this shot. Sehwag was not entirely to the pitch of it, and ended up scooping it in the air. Amla snaffles it. SA have struck a huge blow.. 1/1 22.2 to VVS Laxman, got 'em! Steyn has gone right through Laxman, and the middle stump is knocked out of the ground, VVS played way across the line, looking to work it through midwicket, it was straight as an arrow, beat the wristy waft, and crashed into the timber, Steyn is on fire, so are South Africa. 66/4 24.4 to SR Tendulkar, and India's last specialist batsman goes! Steyn it is who gets the big one, raps SRT on the pads with a length delivery that straightens a bit, and catches him on the pads even as he plays across the line, that was hitting middle and the finger goes up straightaway, India are 29 short of the 100-run mark. 71/6 | ||||||||||
| Morne Morkel | 12.4 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 1.57 | 66 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
12.6 to G Gambhir, Morne has consumed Gambhir after working him over with an attacking spell. I daresay, he deserved this scalp. As is often the case with the bouncer-barrage, the wicket eventually comes to the sucker ball that is landed full. This one was on off stump, Gambhir was years late in coming forward. The body position for the drive was awry, the body momentum was going nowhere. The outside edge went straight into the lap of first slip.. 24/2 14.4 to R Dravid, Morne has struck a huge blow. Dravid has fallen to his first error of the day, and by the looks of it, he wasn't very lucky with the bounce. Sharp inwards movement from Morne, lands on and around off stump and curls into Dravid who is caught on the stumps and struck in front of middle and leg as it stays lower than he expected. That looked plumb, but it was just shaving the top of middle. Morne goes down in celebration. He knows he's got the big fish.. 27/3 32.3 to I Sharma, another one goes! Morkle gets the outside edge as Ishant hops to a short of a good length delivery that gets big on him, it flies to that man Kallis at second slip who juggles it for an instant, before holding it cleanly close to his chest. 110/8 34.5 to S Sreesanth, stays in the crease and drives crisply in the air, but straight to short extra cover, who was the only man in front of the stumps, apart from the bowler, and he gleefully accepts the early Christmas gift, India are nine down. 116/9 38.4 to MS Dhoni, hit on the pad and Dhoni's lbw! Morkel picks up his fifth. The ball was fuller again and angled into the right-hander. Dhoni might have wanted to come forward to that but he didn't and was caught on the crease. Umpire Ian Gould made a quick decision but Dhoni was almost ready to walk before the finger went up. 136/10 | ||||||||||
| Lonwabo Tsotsobe | 9 | 2 | 50 | 0 | 5.55 | 40 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Jacques Kallis | 6 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 3.33 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
23.1 to SK Raina, and Raina falls third ball! not the short ball, but the length delivery going across him does the trick, he stood in the crease and guided it straight into the hands of third slip, India are in complete disarray, Kallis gets one now. 67/5 | ||||||||||
| Paul Harris | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Africa 1st Innings
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graeme Smith (c) | c †Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh | 62 | 87 | 133 | 11 | 0 | 71.26 | ||
| Alviro Petersen | c Gambhir b Harbhajan Singh | 77 | 114 | 191 | 9 | 1 | 67.54 | ||
| Hashim Amla | c †Dhoni b Sharma | 140 | 202 | 296 | 14 | 1 | 69.30 | ||
| Jacques Kallis | not out | 201 | 270 | 389 | 15 | 5 | 74.44 | ||
| AB de Villiers | c †Dhoni b Sharma | 129 | 112 | 149 | 12 | 5 | 115.17 | ||
| Extras | (b 2, lb 3, nb 4, w 2) | 11 | |||||||
| TOTAL | 130.1 Ov (RR: 4.76, 580 Mts) | 620/4d | |||||||
Fall of wickets: 1-111 (Graeme Smith, 26.3 ov), 2-166 (Alviro Petersen, 40.1 ov), 3-396 (Hashim Amla, 92.3 ov), 4-620 (AB de Villiers, 130.1 ov) | |||||||||
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sreesanth | 24 | 1 | 97 | 0 | 4.04 | 100 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Ishant Sharma | 27.1 | 2 | 120 | 2 | 4.41 | 102 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
92.3 to HM Amla, that's out! Lucky man is Ishant, full and way down the leg side, Amla looked to flick it fine, got a touch but not wide enough to evade Dhoni, caught down the leg side, the opening India needed on the third day. 396/3 130.1 to AB de Villiers, AB is gone. Smith has declared. All the boxes have been ticked. India face a mountain. Make that two. How he got out is purely academic. For the record - it was a back of length ball on off. Not the kind of ball you can hit for six. Given his form, AB believed he could. He ended up playing a nothing-swipe. The outside edge landed in Dhoni's gloves. No one celebrated. Smith called them in. Sehwag and Gambhir have a nervy ten minutes ahead of them, as a prelude to the nervy two-and-a-half days ahead of the world's No. 1 team.. 620/4 | ||||||||||
| Jaydev Unadkat | 26 | 4 | 101 | 0 | 3.88 | 105 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 36 | 2 | 169 | 2 | 4.69 | 115 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
26.3 to GC Smith, caught! India have struck on the stroke of lunch and it's out of the blue. The ball was similar to the previous one, Harbhajan drifted it into the left-hander, pitched around off and got the ball to bounce considerably. Smith attempted to cut this one and Dhoni held the edge. Finally India have some respite.. 111/1 40.1 to AN Petersen, Bhajji gets one more! it was flighted on middle and leg, he got half-forward to defend, got an inside edge on to pad, the ball went in the air for Gambhir at forward short leg to take the simplest of catches, Alviro walks off without waiting for the umpire's decision. 166/2 | ||||||||||
| Suresh Raina | 7 | 0 | 77 | 0 | 11.00 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 10 | 1 | 51 | 0 | 5.10 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
India 2nd Innings
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gautam Gambhir | lbw b Steyn | 80 | 124 | 187 | 10 | 0 | 64.51 | ||
| Virender Sehwag | c Smith b Harris | 63 | 79 | 141 | 9 | 1 | 79.74 | ||
| Rahul Dravid | c †Boucher b Morkel | 43 | 109 | 159 | 6 | 0 | 39.44 | ||
| Ishant Sharma | c Amla b Steyn | 23 | 51 | 69 | 4 | 0 | 45.09 | ||
| Sachin Tendulkar | not out | 111 | 241 | 327 | 13 | 1 | 46.05 | ||
| VVS Laxman | c de Villiers b Tsotsobe | 8 | 21 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 38.09 | ||
| Suresh Raina | c Harris b Kallis | 5 | 13 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 38.46 | ||
| MS Dhoni (c)† | c †Boucher b Steyn | 90 | 106 | 178 | 14 | 0 | 84.90 | ||
| Harbhajan Singh | c Kallis b Harris | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | ||
| Sreesanth | c de Villiers b Morkel | 3 | 18 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | ||
| Jaydev Unadkat | c Prince b Steyn | 1 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 10.00 | ||
| Extras | (b 13, lb 5, nb 5, w 8) | 31 | |||||||
| TOTAL | 128.1 Ov (RR: 3.58, 585 Mts) | 459 | |||||||
Fall of wickets: 1-137 (Virender Sehwag, 29.3 ov), 2-170 (Gautam Gambhir, 39.2 ov), 3-214 (Ishant Sharma, 54.4 ov), 4-242 (Rahul Dravid, 64.5 ov), 5-256 (VVS Laxman, 72.5 ov), 6-277 (Suresh Raina, 77.5 ov), 7-449 (MS Dhoni, 118.2 ov), 8-450 (Harbhajan Singh, 119.1 ov), 9-456 (Sreesanth, 125.5 ov), 10-459 (Jaydev Unadkat, 128.1 ov) | |||||||||
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dale Steyn | 30.1 | 6 | 105 | 4 | 3.48 | 125 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
39.2 to G Gambhir, Gambhir is gone and he will be gutted by this. Steyn angles one in from round the wicket, from outside off, but it was the bounce that did Gambhir in. It kept a touch low as he looked to play from the crease. It missed the bat and thudded into the pads. That was plumb. As Sid Monga once said, he wouldn't have been plumber if he worked with pipes and taps.. 170/2 54.4 to I Sharma, got him! The short square leg into action immediately, Amla the fielder there, on middle and leg, Ishant gets across and tries to work it square, uppish again and the ever-sharp Amla makes no mistake, grabbing it to his left. 214/3 118.2 to MS Dhoni, Dhoni falls! Steyn is the man for South Africa, breaks the partnership that had almost wiped off the huge deficit, it climbed nastily from short of a good length, nipped in too, Dhoni was caught in an awkward position, and fended it to Boucher, who took a neat catch, diving to his right, Dhoni goes for 90, Steyn roars. 449/7 128.1 to JD Unadkat, All over! Banged in short on the body and Unadkat looks to fend it into the off side, finds gully, didn't look too comfortable against the short one and it seemed it was only a matter of time. 459/10 | ||||||||||
| Morne Morkel | 31 | 6 | 94 | 2 | 3.03 | 145 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
64.5 to R Dravid, gone! Morkel strikes. Did that nip away? Landed on a good lengh just outside off, Dravid played at it, got a faint edge straight through to Boucher, the hint of movement may have just done him in. South Africa go past a major barrier in their quest to bowl India out here. 242/4 125.5 to S Sreesanth, edged and gone, good length outside off and Sreesanth poked at it again, fatally this time, angled in and then flew off the edge to second slip where AB took a dolly, South Africa move closer to a win. 456/9 | ||||||||||
| Lonwabo Tsotsobe | 24 | 3 | 98 | 1 | 4.08 | 108 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
72.5 to VVS Laxman, edged and gone! Laxman goes after a full delivery outside off and gets a thick edge straight to gully, flew towards that fielder there and he made no mistake, South Africa are breaking through the resistance steadily here. 256/5 | ||||||||||
| Paul Harris | 30 | 5 | 88 | 2 | 2.93 | 135 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
29.3 to V Sehwag, Sehwag has thrown it away. You sensed he was going to go after Harris at some point. This was was asking to be hit. Tossed up nice and wide outside off, Sehwag danced down, but could not get to the line of the ball. Hence, he ended up scooping instead of lofting cleanly. Smith runs back and to the left from widish mid off to take a well-judged catch. Big wicket.. 137/1 119.1 to Harbhajan Singh, Harris gets Harbhajan! it was tossed up outside the off stump, he went for the drive, and got an outside edge that went straight to slip, South Africa are closing in now. 450/8 | ||||||||||
| Jacques Kallis | 13 | 3 | 56 | 1 | 4.30 | 59 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
77.5 to SK Raina, Raina goes, almost guides it to slip, short of a good length and he's looking to play it behind point, edges it straight to first slip, the pressure on him only grows. 277/6 | ||||||||||
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MATCH DETAILS
| SuperSport Park, Centurion | |
| Toss | South Africa, elected to field first |
| Series | |
| Season | 2010/11 |
| Player Of The Match | |
| Series result | South Africa led the 3-match series 1-0 |
| Match number | Test no. 1985 |
| Hours of play (local time) | 10.00am start, Lunch 12.30-13.10, Tea 15.10-15.30, Close 18.00 |
| Match days | 16,17,18,19,20 December 2010 - day (5-day match) |
| Test debut | Jaydev Unadkat |
| Umpires | |
| TV Umpire | |
| Reserve Umpire | |
| Match Referee | |
CLOSE OF PLAY
Thu, 16 Dec - day 1 - India 1st innings 136/9 (MS Dhoni 33*, Jaydev Unadkat 1*, 38.1 ov)
Fri, 17 Dec - day 2 - South Africa 1st innings 366/2 (Hashim Amla 116*, Jacques Kallis 102*, 87 ov)
Sat, 18 Dec - day 3 - India 2nd innings 190/2 (Rahul Dravid 28*, Ishant Sharma 7*, 44.1 ov)
Sun, 19 Dec - day 4 - India 2nd innings 454/8 (Sachin Tendulkar 107*, Sreesanth 3*, 122.2 ov)
Mon, 20 Dec - day 5 - India 2nd innings 459 (128.1 ov) - end of match
MATCH NOTES
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
- India: 200 runs in 50.6 overs (309 balls), Extras 13
- Drinks: India - 214/3 in 54.4 overs (R Dravid 34)
- Drinks: India - 245/4 in 67.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 20, VVS Laxman 0)
- India: 250 runs in 69.6 overs (425 balls), Extras 16
- Lunch: India - 277/6 in 77.5 overs (SR Tendulkar 38)
- New Ball Taken: India 288/6 after 80.1 overs (SR Tendulkar 39, MS Dhoni 10)
- India: 300 runs in 83.2 overs (505 balls), Extras 19
- SR Tendulkar: 50 off 95 balls (8 x 4)
- 7th Wicket: 50 runs in 55 balls (SR Tendulkar 14, MS Dhoni 34, Ex 2)
- MS Dhoni: 50 off 40 balls (9 x 4)
- India: 350 runs in 90.3 overs (548 balls), Extras 19
- Drinks: India - 352/6 in 92.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 57, MS Dhoni 54)
- 7th Wicket: 100 runs in 142 balls (SR Tendulkar 29, MS Dhoni 68, Ex 3)
- Tea: India - 394/6 in 106.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 80, MS Dhoni 72)
- India: 400 runs in 107.2 overs (649 balls), Extras 20
- 7th Wicket: 150 runs in 207 balls (SR Tendulkar 59, MS Dhoni 83, Ex 9)
- SR Tendulkar: 100 off 197 balls (12 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Drinks: India - 448/6 in 118.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 105, MS Dhoni 90)
- India: 450 runs in 118.3 overs (716 balls), Extras 31
- Drinks: India - 451/8 in 121.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 107, S Sreesanth 0)
- Bad Light: India - 454/8 in 122.2 overs (SR Tendulkar 107, S Sreesanth 3)
- Rain: India - 454/8 in 122.2 overs (SR Tendulkar 107, S Sreesanth 3)
- End Of Day: India - 454/8 in 122.2 overs (SR Tendulkar 107, S Sreesanth 3)
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