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Match Date : December 26-30, 2006
Venue : Sahara Stadium, Kingsmead, Durban
Toss : South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : Mark Benson (Was replaced by Ian Howell, the third Umpire as Benson was hospitalized on Day 3 following heart palpitations) and Asad Rauf
Match Result : South Africa won by 174 runs to level the 3-Test Series 1-1
Man of the Match : Makhaya Ntini
South Africa 1st Innings
Graeme Smith (C) c Tendulkar b Zaheer Khan 5 (13)
AB de Villiers c Tendulkar b Sreesanth 9 (38) 1 ‘4s’
Hashim Amla lbw b Zaheer Khan 1 (9)
Herschelle Gibbs c Dhoni b Sreesanth 63 (88) 13 ‘4s’
Ashwell Prince c Laxman b Sreesanth 121 (212) 16 ‘4s’
Mark Boucher (WK) b Sreesanth 53 (91) 7 ‘4s’
Shaun Pollock c Sehwag b Vikram Singh 11 (23) 2 ‘4s’
Andrew Hall lbw b Anil Kumble 0 (4)
Andre Nel b Anil Kumble 0 (3)
Morne Morkel not out 31 (52) 3 ‘4s’
Makhaya Ntini lbw b Anil Kumble 16 (30) 2 ‘4s’
Extras : 18 (Wides : 1 No Balls: 14 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 3)
Total : 328 all out (Overs : 91.3)
Fall of Wickets : 1-8 (Smith, 2.4 ovs), 2-13 (Amla, 6.2 ovs), 3-28 (de Villiers, 12.3 ovs), 4-122 (Gibbs, 35.2 ovs), 5-222 (Boucher, 63.6 ovs), 6-256 (Pollock, 71.3 ovs), 7-257 (Hall, 72.2 ovs), 8-257 (Nel, 72.5 ovs), 9-296 (Prince, 82.3 ovs), 10-328 (Ntini, 91.3 ovs)
India Bowling
Zaheer Khan 23-7-83-2 (1wd 4nb)
Sreesanth 24-4-109-4 (3nb)
Vikram Singh 13-1-60-1 (3nb)
Anil Kumble 28.3-1-62-3 (2nb)
Sourav Ganguly 3-1-11-0 (2nb)
India 1st Innings
Wasim Jaffer c de Villiers b Makhaya Ntini 26 (73) 5 ‘4s’
Virender Sehwag c de Villiers b Andre Nel 0 (1)
Rahul Dravid (C) lbw b Andre Nel 11 (23) 2 ‘4s’
Sachin Tendulkar c Boucher b Makhaya Ntini 63 (115) 11 ‘4s’ 0
V.V.S. Laxman not out 50 (156) 3 ‘4s’
Sourav Ganguly c Gibbs b Makhaya Ntini 0 (2)
M.S.Dhoni (WK) c de Villiers b Morne Morkel 34 (39) 7 ‘4s’
Anil Kumble c Boucher b Morne Morkel 0 (6)
Zaheer Khan c Amla b Morne Morkel 2 (20)
Sreesanth c Boucher b Andrew Hall 28 (40) 5 ‘4s’
Vikram Singh c Boucher b Shaun Pollock 4 (4) 1 ‘4s’
Extras : 22 (Wides : 2 No Balls: 12 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 7)
Total : 240 all out (Overs : 77.5)
Fall of Wickets : 1-5 (Sehwag, 0.5 ovs), 2-35 (Dravid, 9.2 ovs), 3-61 (Jaffer, 23.3 ovs), , 4-125 (Tendulkar, 45.4 ovs), 5-125 (Ganguly, 45.6 ovs), 6-179 (Dhoni, 59.1 ovs), 7-179 (Kumble, 61.1 ovs), 8-183 (Zaheer Khan, 65.2 ovs), 9-235 (Sreesanth, 76.6 ovs), 10-240 (Vikram Singh, 77.5 ovs)
South Africa Bowling
Andre Nel 23-5-60-2 (1wd)
Makhaya Ntini 15-4-41-3 (1nb)
Morne Morkel 18-1-86-3 (1wd 11nb)
Shaun Pollock 14.5-10-17-1
Andrew Hall 7-0-28-1
South Africa 2nd Innings
AB de Villiers c Laxman b Vikram Singh 47 (100) 8 ‘4s’
Graeme Smith (C) b Sreesanth 58 (81) 11 ‘4s’
Hashim Amla lbw b Sreesanth 0 (4)
Herschelle Gibbs c sub (Dinesh Karthik) b Anil Kumble 9 (24) 1 ‘4s’
Ashwell Prince c Ganguly b Sreesanth 0 (3)
Mark Boucher (WK) lbw b Zaheer Khan 8 (14) 1 ‘4s’
Shaun Pollock not out 63 (99) 10 ‘4s’
Andrew Hall lbw b Sreesanth 21 (52) 3 ‘4s’
Morne Morkel c Vikram Singh b Virender Sehwag 27 (41) 4 ‘4s’
Andre Nel
Makhaya Ntini
Extras : 32 (Wides : 7 No Balls: 12 Byes: 5 Leg Byes: 8)
Total : 265/8 declared (Overs : 67.4)
Fall of Wickets : 1-99 (de Villiers, 28.4 ov), 2-108 (Amla, 29.5 ov), 3-121 (Smith, 31.3 ov), 4-121 (Prince, 31.6 ov), 5-140 (Gibbs, 36.2 ov), 6-143 (Boucher, 37.5 ov), 7-213 (Hall, 55.5 ov), 8-265 (Morkel, 67.4 ov)
India Bowling
Zaheer Khan 20-5-65-1 (2wd 2nb)
Sreesanth 19-4-79-4 (1wd 1nb)
Vikram Singh 10-2-64-1 (7nb)
Anil Kumble 16-4-37-1 (2nb)
Virender Sehwag 2.4-1-7-1
India 2nd Innings (Target : 354)
Wasim Jaffer c Nel b Makhaya Ntini 28 (47) 4 ‘4s’
Virender Sehwag c Smith b Makhaya Ntini 8 (11) 1 ‘4s’
Rahul Dravid (C) c Boucher b Makhaya Ntini 5 (25) 1 ‘4s’
Sachin Tendulkar lbw b Makhaya Ntini 0 (7)
V.V.S. Laxman b Andre Nel 15 (44) 1 ‘4s’
Sourav Ganguly c Gibbs b Makhaya Ntini 26 (33) 4 ‘4s’
M.S.Dhoni (WK) c Boucher b Andre Nel 47 (67) 10 ‘4s’
Anil Kumble c Amla b Andrew Hall 11 (31) 1 ‘4s’
Zaheer Khan c Hall b Andre Nel 21 (56) 2 ‘4s’
Sreesanth c Boucher b Makhaya Ntini 10 (12) 2 ‘4s’
Vikram Singh not out 0 (1)
Extras : 8 (Wides : 1 No Balls: 4 Byes: 2 Leg Byes: 1)
Total : 179 all out (Overs : 55.1)
Fall of Wickets : 1-14 (Sehwag, 3.6 ov), 2-34 (Dravid, 11.4 ov), 3-38 (Tendulkar, 13.5 ov), 4-45 (Jaffer, 15.2 ov), 5-83 (Ganguly, 27.1 ov), 6-85 (Laxman, 28.4 ov), 7-101 (Kumble, 38.1 ov), 8-160 (Dhoni, 48.5 ov), 9-179 (Khan, 54.5 ov), 10-179 (Sreesanth, 55.1 ov)
South Africa Bowling
Andre Nel 16-4-57-3
Makhaya Ntini 19.1-6-48-6
Shaun Pollock 9-5-20-0
Morne Morkel 6-0-25-0 (1wd 3nb)
Andrew Hall 5-1-26-1
- Test Match Debut for Morne Morkel (SA)