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[a] Quinton de Kock, South Africa's wicket-keeper became the fifth player to score three centuries in consecutive innings of ODIs. South Africa won the Test series 1–0, the first Test ending in a draw. Jacques Kallis, the country's most prolific run-scorer in Tests, announced his retirement from the format after the second Test at Durban. [2]
South Africa won the toss and elected to bat; Subramaniam Badrinath and Wriddhiman Saha made Test cricket debuts for Indian cricket team. Hashim Amla accumulated the highest Test score by a South African in India by scoring in 253* runs. This was India's first Test defeat under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The Indian cricket team toured South Africa for three Tests, five Odis & one T20I from 16 November 2006 to 6 January 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 Test series 2–0, while India took the ODI series by a 3–2 margin. The ODI series was later marred by a dramatic match fixing scandal. [ 2 ] It was the first time that a visiting Test team had won in India for thirteen years, and the last Test matches to be played by Cronje.
The first session on day 2 changed the game decisively in India's favour after South Africa were reduced to 17/5. Despite a counter-attacking innings from JP Duminy , India bowled them out for 79. The Indian 2nd innings was a repeat of their 1st innings with India suffering a middle-order collapse to be all out for 173, setting South Africa a ...
Pravin Amre and Ajay Jadeja (Ind), and Jimmy Cook, Omar Henry, Brian McMillan, Jonty Rhodes and Brett Schultz (SA) made their Test debuts. Kepler Wessels (SA) became the first batsman to score centuries for two countries. Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) became the first batsman to be given run out by a TV umpire. [1]
India in South Africa 2001–02 South Africa: India: Dates: 1 November – 20 November 2001: Captains: Shaun Pollock: Sourav Ganguly: Test series; Result: South Africa won the 2-match series 1–0: Most runs: Herschelle Gibbs (316) Sachin Tendulkar (193) Most wickets: Shaun Pollock (16) Javagal Srinath (13) Player of the series: Herschelle ...
The Test series was played for the Freedom Trophy, with South Africa winning the trophy following victories in the first two Tests. [6] South Africa went on to win the Test series 2–1. [7] It was the first Test series of three matches or more in which all 40 wickets fell in each match of the series. [8]