Indian cricket team in South Africa in 2006–07
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The Indian cricket team will tour South Africa for three Tests and five ODIs in November 2006. The tour will last until 6 January 2007, when the third and final Test is scheduled to finish. The three test matches would be played at The Wanderers, Kingsmead and Newlands. India will also play a Twenty20 International against the South Africa on 1 December 2006.
South Africa won the ODI series 4–0, which was India's first ODI series without a win since 1997.
Schedule
| No. | Date | Home captain | Away captain | Venue | Result |
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| Tour Games | |||||
| One Day | 16 Nov 2006 | Ashwell Prince | Rahul Dravid | Willowmoore Park |  Rest of SA won by 37 runs
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| FC match | 7-10 Dec 2006 | Jacques Rudolph | VVS Laxman | Sedgars Park | |
| 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 | South Africa won by 157 runs
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| 3rd ODI | 26 Nov 2006 | Graeme Smith | Rahul Dravid | Newlands | South Africa won by 106 runs
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| 4th ODI | 29 Nov 2006 | Graeme Smith | Virender Sehwag | St George's Park | South Africa won by 80 runs
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| 5th ODI | 3 Dec 2006 | Graeme Smith | Virender Sehwag | SuperSport Park | South Africa won by 9 wickets
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| Twenty20 International | |||||
| 1st 20/20 | 1 Dec 2006 | Graeme Smith | Virender Sehwag | New Wanderers Stadium |  India won by 6 wickets
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| Test Series | |||||
| 1st Test | 15-19 Dec 2006 | New Wanderers Stadium | |||
| 2nd Test | 26-30 Dec 2006 | Kingsmead | |||
| 3rd Test | 2-6 Jan 2007 | Newlands | |||
Squads
| Indian ODI Squad[1] |
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| Rahul Dravid (Captain) | Sachin Tendulkar | Virender Sehwag | Suresh Raina | Mohammad Kaif | Ajit Agarkar | Dinesh Mongia | Harbhajan Singh
Anil Kumble | Wasim Jaffer | Zaheer Khan | Mahendra Dhoni (wk) | Irfan Pathan | Munaf Patel | Dinesh Karthik (wk) | S Sreesanth | VVS Laxman [2] |
| Indian Test Squad[3] |
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| Rahul Dravid (Captain) | Sachin Tendulkar | Virender Sehwag | VRV Singh | | Saurav Ganguly | Gautam Gambhir | Harbhajan Singh
Anil Kumble | Wasim Jaffer | Zaheer Khan | Irfan Pathan | Mahendra Dhoni (wk) | Munaf Patel | Dinesh Karthik (wk) | S Sreesanth | VVS Laxman |
| South Africa ODI Squad[4] |
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| Graeme Smith (Captain) | Loots Bosman | Mark Boucher (wk) | AB de Villiers (wk) | Boeta Dippenaar[5] | Herschelle Gibbs
Andrew Hall | Justin Kemp | Jacques Kallis | Charl Langeveldt | Andre Nel | Makhaya Ntini | Robin Peterson | Shaun Pollock | Ashwell Prince |
| South Africa Test Squad[6] |
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| Graeme Smith (Captain) | Jacques Kallis | Mark Boucher (wk) | Abraham de Villiers | Jacques Rudolph | Herschelle Gibbs
Andrew 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
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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
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3rd ODI: 26 November
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4th ODI: 29 November
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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
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5th ODI: 3 December
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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: South Africa A v Indians (7-10 December)
First Test (15-19 December)
Second Test (26-30 December)
Third Test (2-6 January)
Notes
- ^ Jaffer, Zaheer and Kumble added to ODI squad, retrieved from Cricinfo, 30 October 2006
- ^ VVS Laxman was flown in as a replacement for Dravid follwoing an injury during the 3rd ODI
- ^ Ganguly in, Laxman appointed vice-captain, retrieved from Cricinfo, 30 November 2006
- ^ South Africa name unchanged squad, retrieved from BBC, 8 November 2006
- ^ Prince replaced Dippenaar for the last 2 ODIs
- ^ South Africa announce Test squad, retrieved from Cricinfo, 7 December 2006
- ^ 1st ODI : Bulletin, retrieved from Cricinfo, 19 November 2006