http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 all-out for 362
The South African team was bowled out for 362 runs in the first innings of the third and final match of the Test series. The highlight of the innings was the elegant knock of Jacques Kallis and the five wicket haul for Sreesanth.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 won the toss and put the Proteas in to bat. The conditions were not easy for batting and the South African openers struggled to amass much runs. With just 34 runs on the scoreboard, both Graeme Smith and Alviro Petersen were out.
This brought Kallis and Hashim Amla to the crease. Together, both the batsmen managed a 72-run partnership. Amla was dismissed for 59 when the total score was 106. Another fifty-run stand was given by Kallis and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 to the team before de Villiers
lost his wicket scoring 26 runs.
The home team was 164 for the loss of four wickets when Ashwell Prince joined Kallis. The pair scored a 98-run partnership to help their team to a good score. Two back-to-back wickets of Prince and Mark Boucher left South Africa in trouble once again.
The wickets kept falling at the other end but it was Kallis who continued to thrash India. He scored 161 runs out of the total 362 for South Africa. This was the 12th time that Kallis scored more than 150 runs in an innings in Test cricket.
Kallis was helped by Lonwabo Tsotsobe who stayed with him until the end and gave his team a fifty-run stand for the 10th wicket.
The Indian fast bowlers took advantage of the seam movement from the wicket and amongst them, Sreesanth was the pick of the bowlers as he dismissed five South Africa batsmen. He got good support from Zaheer Khan who took three wickets including the last
wicket of Kallis. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ishant-Sharma-c64566 also took two wickets.
The major disappointment for the Indian team was Harbhajan Singh who was unable to disturb any of the South African batsmen. He remained wicket-less in the innings.
The Indian team will be looking forward to get a big first innings score but they will have to weather the storm by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Morne-Morkel-c77722. There is some seam movement in the wicket which may disturb the batsmen especially with the new ball.
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