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{{Infobox cricket tour |
  series_name              = Zimbabweans in South Africa in 2006–07 |
  team2_image              = Flag of South Africa.svg |
  team2_name               = South Africa |
  team1_image              = Flag of Zimbabwe.svg | 
  team1_name               = Zimbabwe |
  from_date                = 13 September |
  to_date                  = 20 September 2006 |
  team1_captain            = [[Prosper Utseya]] |
  team2_captain            = [[Jacques Kallis]] |
  no_of_ODIs               = 3 |
  team1_ODIs_won           = 0 |
 team2_ODIs_won            = 3 |
  team1_ODIs_most_runs     = [[Chamu Chibhabha]] (121) |
  team2_ODIs_most_runs     = [[Mark Boucher]] (155) |
  team1_ODIs_most_wickets  = [[Anthony Ireland (cricketer)|Anthony Ireland]] (3)<br>[[Ed Rainsford]] (3) |
  team2_ODIs_most_wickets  = [[Jacques Kallis]] (4)<br>[[André Nel]] (4) |
  player_of_ODI_series         = [[Mark Boucher]] |
}}
The '''[[Zimbabwean cricket team]]''' toured '''South Africa''' for three One-day Internationals and one Twenty20 match against [[Eagles cricket team|Eagles]] from 13 to 20 September 2006.

South Africa won the series 3–0.
Zimbabwe were described by [[Independent Online (South Africa)|Independent Online]] as a side of "no more than [[club cricket|club]] standard", and the tour was described by South African coach [[Mickey Arthur]] as "part of the training camp" for the [[2006 ICC Champions Trophy]].<ref>[http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&click_id=4&art_id=vn20060910112050206C294143 Zim pushovers arrive for the slaughter], from iol.co.za, Retrieved 10 September 2006</ref>

==Schedule==

{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Match
! Venue
|-
|| 13 September|| Tour Twenty20 v [[Eagles cricket team|Eagles]] || [[De Beers Diamond Oval]]
|-
|| 15 September|| 1st ODI || [[Goodyear Park]]
|-
|| 17 September|| 2nd ODI || [[Buffalo Park]]
|-
|| 20 September|| 3rd ODI || [[North West Cricket Stadium]]
|-
|}

==Squads==

{| width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| width="48%" |
{| class="wikitable" 
|-
! colspan="3" | South Africa<ref>[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/rsavzim/content/squad/258953.html South Africa One-Day Squad], from Cricinfo, Retrieved 30 July 2006</ref>
|-
|| [[Graeme Smith]]<ref>Kallis was appointed captain as Smith did not play any games, owing to an injury.</ref> || LHB, [[Off break|OB]] || [[Cape Cobras]]
|-
|| [[Jacques Kallis]] [[captain (cricket)|c]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RFM]] || [[Cape Cobras]]
|-
|| [[Loots Bosman]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RM]] || [[Eagles cricket team|Eagles]]
|-
|| [[Mark Boucher]] [[wicketkeeper|wk]] || RHB || [[Warriors cricket team|Warriors]]
|-
|| [[Abraham de Villiers|A. B. de Villiers]] [[wicketkeeper|wk]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RM]] || [[Titans cricket team|Titans]]
|-
|| [[Boeta Dippenaar]] || RHB, [[Off break|OB]] || [[Eagles cricket team|Eagles]]
|-
|| [[Jean-Paul Duminy|J. P. Duminy]] || LHB, [[Off break|OB]] ||[[Cape Cobras]]
|-
|| [[Herschelle Gibbs]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RM]] || [[Cape Cobras]]
|-
|| [[Andrew Hall]] ||RHB, [[Fast bowling|RFM]] || [[Highveld Lions cricket team|Lions]]
|-
|| [[Justin Kemp]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RFM]] || [[Titans cricket team|Titans]]
|-
|| [[Charl Langeveldt]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RFM]] || [[Highveld Lions cricket team|Lions]]
|-
|| [[André Nel]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RFM]] || [[Titans cricket team|Titans]]
|-
|| [[Makhaya Ntini]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RF]] || [[Warriors cricket team|Warriors]]
|-
|| [[Alviro Petersen]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RM]] || [[Highveld Lions cricket team|Lions]]
|-
|| [[Robin Peterson]] || LHB, [[Slow left arm|SLA]] || [[Warriors cricket team|Warriors]]
|-
|| [[Shaun Pollock]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RFM]] || [[Dolphins cricket team|Dolphins]] 
|-
|| [[Roger Telemachus]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RFM]] || [[Eagles cricket team|Eagles]]
|-
|| [[Johannes van der Wath]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RF]] || [[Eagles cricket team|Eagles]]
|-
|}
| width="2%" |
| width="50%"| 
{| class="wikitable" 
|-
! colspan="3" | Zimbabwe<ref>[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/rsavzim/content/squad/259215.html Zimbabwe One-Day Squad], from Cricinfo, Retrieved 30 July 2006</ref>
|-
|| [[Prosper Utseya]] [[captain (cricket)|c]] || RHB, [[Off spin|OB]] ||  [[Manicaland cricket team|Manicaland]]
|-
|| [[Brendan Taylor]] [[wicket-keeper|wk]] || RHB || [[Mashonaland cricket team|Mashonaland]]
|-
|| [[Chamu Chibhabha]] || RHB, [[Fast bowling|RM]] || [[Mashonaland cricket team|Mashonaland]]
|-
|| [[Elton Chigumbura]] || RHB, [[Off spin|OB]]|| [[Manicaland cricket team|Manicaland]]
|-
|| [[Terry Duffin]] || LHB, [[fast bowling|RM]] || [[Matabeleland cricket team|Matabeleland]]
|-
|| [[Anthony Ireland (cricketer)|Anthony Ireland]] || RHB, [[fast bowling|RM]] || [[Midlands cricket team|Midlands]]
|-
|| [[Tafadzwa Kamungozi]] || RHB, [[Leg spin|LB]] || [[Masvingo cricket team|Masvingo]]
|-
|| [[Timycen Maruma]] || RHB, [[Off spin|OB]] || [[Manicaland cricket team|Manicaland]]
|-
|| [[Hamilton Masakadza]] || RHB, [[leg break|LB]] [[googly|G]] ||[[Manicaland cricket team|Manicaland]]
|-
|| [[Stuart Matsikenyeri]] || RHB, [[off break|OB]] || [[Manicaland cricket team|Manicaland]]
|-
|| [[Tafadzwa Mufambisi]] || RHB, [[off break|OB]] || [[Mashonaland cricket team|Mashonaland]]
|-
|| [[Tawanda Mupariwa]] || RHB, [[fast bowling|RFM]] ||[[Matabeleland cricket team|Matabeleland]]
|-
|| [[Ed Rainsford]] || RHB, [[fast bowling|RFM]] ||[[Midlands cricket team|Midlands]]
|-
|| [[Piet Rinke]] || RHB, [[fast bowling|RFM]] || [[Manicaland cricket team|Manicaland]]
|-
|| [[Vusimuzi Sibanda]]|| RHB, [[fast bowling|RM]] || [[Midlands cricket team|Midlands]]
|-
|| [[Gregory Strydom]] || RHB, [[fast bowling|RM]] || [[Matabeleland cricket team|Matabeleland]]
|-
|}
|-
|}

==Matches==

===Tour match: Eagles v Zimbabweans===

'''''Eagles won by nine wickets'''''<ref>[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/255960.html Eagles v Zimbabweans scorecard], from Cricinfo, Retrieved 13 September 2005</ref>

Zimbabwe lost their last nine wickets for 24 runs, against a bowling attack including three former South Africa internationals in [[Johannes van der Wath]], [[Roger Telemachus]] and [[Nicky Boje]]. Opener [[Davey Jacobs]] hit an unbeaten half-century in reply, as [[Eagles cricket team|Eagles]] overcame the target of 104 inside 11.4 of the 20 allotted overs.

===1st One-day International, 15 September===

{{Limited overs matches
| date = 15 September 2006
| time = 
| daynight = 
| team1 = {{cr-rt|ZIM}}
| team2 = {{cr|RSA}}

| score1 = 201/7 (50 overs)
| runs1 = [[Vusi Sibanda|V Sibanda]] 51 (78)
| wickets1 = [[Jacques Kallis|JH Kallis]] 2/16 (6 overs)

| score2 = 202/5 (43.5 overs)
| runs2 = [[Boeta Dippenaar|HH Dippenaar]] 85[[not out|*]] (127)
| wickets2 = [[Ed Rainsford|EC Rainsford]] 2/29 (10 overs)

| result = South Africa won by 5 wickets
| report = [https://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/103/103112.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Goodyear Park]], [[Bloemfontein]]
| umpires = [[Daryl Harper|DJ Harper]] (AUS) and [[Brian Jerling|BG Jerling]] (SA)
| motm = [[Boeta Dippenaar|HH Dippenaar]] (SA)
| toss = Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat
| rain = 
| notes = [[Loots Bosman|LE Bosman]] (SA) made his ODI debut
}}

[[Vusimuzi Sibanda]] top scored for [[Zimbabwe national cricket team|Zimbabwe]] with his fifth One-day International half-century, as the only one to pass 40 in South Africa's innings. [[Justice Chibhabha]] and [[Hamilton Masakadza]] contributed 30s as Zimbabwe made it 137 for two after the 33rd over, but the last 17 provided runs at a slower rate as [[Jacques Kallis]], [[Makhaya Ntini]] and [[Shaun Pollock]] kept the run rate when they bowled below three an over. [[Robin Peterson]]'s five overs cost 35, however, and he was the least economical bowler of the match (excluding [[Hamilton Masakadza]] who didn't bowl a full over).

South Africa lost their first three wickets within 10 overs, scoring 33 as [[Loots Bosman]], [[Herschelle Gibbs]] and Jacques Kallis, but a 121-run partnership between [[Boeta Dippenaar]] and [[Jean-Paul Duminy|J. P. Duminy]] left 48 runs from the remaining 17 overs. Despite wickets from [[Stuart Matsikenyeri]] and [[Ed Rainsford]], South Africa made it through with five wickets to spare.

===2nd One-day International (Replay), 18 September===

{{Limited overs matches
| date = 18 September 2006
| time = 
| daynight = yes
| team1 = {{cr-rt|ZIM}}
| team2 = {{cr|RSA}}

| score1 = 152 (49.4 overs)
| runs1 = [[Chamu Chibhabha|CJ Chibhabha]] 38 (100)
| wickets1 = [[Andrew Hall|AJ Hall]] 3/23 (8.4 overs)

| score2 = 156/4 (27.4 overs)
| runs2 = [[Loots Bosman|LE Bosman]] 38 (29)
| wickets2 = [[Piet Rinke|HP Rinke]] 2/35 (6 overs)

| result = South Africa won by 6 wickets
| report = [https://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/104/104092.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Buffalo Park]], [[East London, South Africa|East London]]
| umpires = [[Daryl Harper|DJ Harper]] (AUS) and [[Ian Howell|IL Howell]] (SA)
| motm = [[Andrew Hall|AJ Hall]] (SA)
| toss = Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat
| rain = 
| notes = [[Alviro Petersen|AN Petersen]] (SA) made his ODI debut
}}

The Second ODI was initially scheduled to be played on 17 September but was abandoned without a ball being bowled. It was replayed on 18 September. Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat first. [[Chamu Chibhabha]] top scored for the tourists with 38 off 101 balls. [[Elton Chigumbura]] made 30 while [[Tafadzwa Mufambisi]] and [[Prosper Utseya]] contributed 20s as Zimbabwe were bundled out for 152 inside 50 overs.  [[Andrew Hall]] was the pick of the South African bowlers picking up 3 wickets for 23 runs. [[Makhaya Ntini]], [[Robin Peterson]] and [[Jacques Kallis]] picked up 2 wickets each.

[[Boeta Dippenaar]] was the first wicket to fall for South Africa in the 4th over. However [[Loots Bosman]] played aggressively to score 38 runs off just 29 balls hitting 2 sixes in the process. By the time [[Jacques Kallis]] fell, South Africa needed 43 runs from 184 balls. [[Jean-Paul Duminy|J. P. Duminy]] and [[Justin Kemp]] took South Africa home inside 30 overs. [[Andrew Hall]] was declared Man of the Match.

===3rd One-day International, 20 September===

{{Limited overs matches
| date = 20 September 2006
| time = 
| daynight = yes
| team1 = {{cr-rt|RSA}}
| team2 = {{cr|ZIM}}

| score1 = 418/5 (50 overs)
| runs1 = [[Mark Boucher|MV Boucher]] 147[[not out|*]] (68)
| wickets1 = [[Tafadzwa Kamungozi|T Kamungozi]] 2/70 (10 overs)

| score2 = 247/4 (50 overs)
| runs2 = [[Terry Duffin|T Duffin]] 88 (134)
| wickets2 = [[Roger Telemachus|R Telemachus]] 2/33 (8 overs)

| result = South Africa won by 171 runs
| report = [https://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/103/103114.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Sedgars Park]], [[Potchefstroom]]
| umpires = [[Daryl Harper|DJ Harper]] (AUS) and [[Brian Jerling|BG Jerling]] (SA)
| motm = [[Mark Boucher|MV Boucher]] (SA)
| toss = South Africa won the toss and elected to bat
| rain = 
| notes = [[Tafadzwa Kamungozi|T Kamungozi]] (ZIM) made his ODI debut
}}

Zimbabwe were "beaten to their knees by a brutal display of power"<ref name=CIReport3>[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/rsavzim/content/story/260093.html Cricinfo Match Report], by George Binoy, Retrieved 20 September 2006</ref> that began with the openers [[Loots Bosman]] and [[Alviro Petersen]] before [[Mark Boucher]] came in and registered his first one-day century in his 220th match, and also the second quickest of all time.<ref>[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/ODIS/BATTING/ODI_BAT_FASTEST_100S.html ODI: Fastest Centuries/Fifties], from Cricinfo, Retrieved 21 September 2006</ref> This was the fourth total of more than 400 in ODI history, and the second time in four games that South Africa scored more than 400.<ref>[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/ODIS/TEAM/ODI_HIGH_TEAM_TOTALS.html ODIs – Highest Team Totals], from Cricinfo, Retrieved 21 September 2006</ref> Both the openers scored 80s, and Bosman was the first to fall with the score on 160 in the 21st over. Captain [[Jacques Kallis]] scored a 50 off 59 balls. However it was [[Mark Boucher]] who turned out to be the hero of the day. He scored 147 off just 68 balls which included 10 sixes. Zimbabwe's "shoddy" fielding helped: he was dropped six times.<ref name=CIReport3/> [[Ed Rainsford]] was the only Zimbabwean bowler whose economy rate was below 6 runs per over, though [[Prosper Utseya]] and [[Tafadzwa Kamungozi]] picked up two wickets each but went for 77 and 70 runs respectively.

The match "effectively ended after the first innings", according to the Cricinfo report, as Zimbabwe batted out the 50 overs without losing wickets. [[Terry Duffin]] led the resistance with a defiant 87, supported by [[Chamu Chibhabha]] and [[Hamilton Masakadza]], with whom he added 94 and 102 for the second and third wickets. Zimbabwe finished with 247 for 4, their highest total of the series, and their highest total against a top-eight nation (the Test nations excluding 10th-ranked Bangladesh), since May 2006.<ref>[http://stats.cricinfo.com/guru?sdb=team;team=ZIM;class=oditeam;filter=advanced;opposition=0;notopposition=0;homeaway=0;continent=0;country=0;notcountry=0;groundid=0;season=0;startdefault=1983-06-09;start=1983-06-09;decade=0;enddefault=2006-09-20;end=2006-09-20;tourneyid=0;finals=0;daynight=0;toss=0;scheduledovers=0;scheduleddays=0;innings=0;followon=0;result=0;seriesresult=0;captainid=0;recent=;viewtype=list;runslow=246;runshigh=;wicketslow=;wicketshigh=;ballslow=;ballshigh=;bpo=0;overslow=;overshigh=;batevent=0;conclow=;conchigh=;takenlow=;takenhigh=;ballsbowledlow=;ballsbowledhigh=;bpobowled=;oversbowledlow=;oversbowledhigh=;bowlevent=0;submit=1;.cgifields=viewtype Cricinfo StatsGuru], Retrieved 21 September 2006</ref>

==References==

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{{International cricket tours of South Africa}}
{{International cricket in 2006-07}}

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