India's record at Durban
India suffered humiliating defeat in the first test match against South Africa. India is ranked one on ICC Test Rankings and South Africa is on the second spot. The series lost might demote Team India’s rank and South Africa will claim the first spot. South
Africa sealed the victory by an innings and 25 runs at Centurion. In the first innings India was asked to bat and were booked for 136 runs as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Morne-Morkel-c77722 with his pace wrecked the top batting line. South Africa in their first innings piled 620 runs and declared
the innings with four wickets down. Jacques Kallis scored his first double century and remained not out. Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers scored tons and fairly decent strike rate. In the second innings Team India showed what they can do with the bat however
that was not enough. Sachin Tendulkar kept on increasing is century tally and scored his 50th ton. The next match will be played in Durban and Team India will be hoping to perform better. Following are the matches both teams played in yesteryears
at Durban.
1996-1997
India won the toss and offered http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 to bat. Wickets kept on falling for South Africa and they managed to score 235 runs. Andrew Hudson scored gutsy 80 as an opener and no other batsman could contribute significantly. Venkatesh Prasad took five wickets
and helped India to limit the hosts to an average score. When India started their innings, Alan Donald known as “white lightening”, ripped the batting order apart. With the highest score of 16 by Sourav Ganguly, Team India collapsed at 100.
South Africa started their second innings with a valuable lead of 135 runs. Hudson scored another fifty with the all rounder Brian McMillan 51 and debutant Adam Bacher leading the scorecard with 55. South Africa ended their innings at 259 and gave the target
of 394 to win. In the second innings of Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 they were wrecked again by South African quickies. Alan Donald grabbed four and Shaun Pollock stumped three. The highlight of the innings was Rahul Dravid with 27 runs. He was the highest and the only player
to score a double figure. South Africa won the test match by 328 runs.
2006-2007
India toured South Africa in the season 2006-2007. In a second test match played at Durban, home team won the toss and elected to bat. Graeme Smith leading the side got out cheaply and his partner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 also couldn’t survive for long. Herschelle
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anil-Kumble-c44737 claimed three.
Team India started their innings but flashy player http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429 got out for duck. After that wickets kept on tumbling while Sachin Tendulkar 63 and Laxman 50 not out showed some resistance. Andre Nel bowled quick and dismissed two Indian batsmen including
the big wicket of Captain Rahul Dravid. Team India was booked for 240 and South Africa started the second innings with the lead of 88.
The openers gave good start and Graeme Smith scored half century. His partner was caught by Laxman off the bowling of VRV Singh on 47. Middle order collapsed but latter batsmen played decent cameos. Shaun Pollock topped the scorecard with his brilliant batting
performance and scored vital 63. Sreesanth repeated his bowling performance like this first innings and earned four wickets.
India was given the target of 354 runs to win a test match. Wickets kept falling on the crucial stages of the game. Apart from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-c83321 Dravid and Laxman failed to impress. Sachin Tendulkar
got a duck when he was judged leg before wicket off the bowling of Ntini. Ntini got fiver and was given man of the match award. This victory for South Africa of 174 runs levelled the series 1-1.
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