| India innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| V Sehwag | c Klusener b Kallis | 59 | 87 | 58 | 10 | 0 | 101.72 | |
| SC Ganguly* | c Dippenaar b Ntini | 13 | 26 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| VVS Laxman | c †Boucher b Donald | 22 | 51 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| SR Tendulkar | run out (†Boucher/Rhodes) | 16 | 39 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 55.17 | |
| R Dravid† | lbw b Klusener | 49 | 82 | 67 | 2 | 0 | 73.13 | |
| Yuvraj Singh | c Gibbs b Pollock | 62 | 84 | 72 | 6 | 0 | 86.11 | |
| M Kaif | c Rhodes b Pollock | 19 | 34 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 90.47 | |
| Harbhajan Singh | b Donald | 4 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Z Khan | c Smith b Pollock | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| A Kumble | not out | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| A Nehra | not out | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 1, w 8, nb 3) | 14 | ||||||
| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs; 215 mins) | 261 | (5.22 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SM Pollock | 9 | 0 | 43 | 3 | 4.77 | (1nb) | ||
| M Ntini | 5 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 7.40 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| AA Donald | 8 | 0 | 41 | 2 | 5.12 | (1w) | ||
| JH Kallis | 8 | 1 | 50 | 1 | 6.25 | (2w) | ||
| L Klusener | 10 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 4.00 | |||
| RJ Peterson | 10 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 4.70 |
| South Africa innings (target: 262 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| HH Gibbs | retired hurt | 116 | 162 | 119 | 16 | 0 | 97.47 | |
| GC Smith | c Yuvraj Singh b Khan | 4 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| JH Kallis | c †Dravid b Sehwag | 97 | 201 | 133 | 6 | 1 | 72.93 | |
| JN Rhodes | c Yuvraj Singh b Harbhajan Singh | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| HH Dippenaar | c Kumble b Harbhajan Singh | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MV Boucher† | c Yuvraj Singh b Sehwag | 10 | 22 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 62.50 | |
| L Klusener | c Kaif b Sehwag | 14 | 31 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| SM Pollock* | not out | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 3, w 5) | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs; 225 mins) | 251 | (5.02 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RJ Peterson, AA Donald, M Ntini |
| Fall of wickets1-14 (Smith, 2.6 ov), 1-192* (Gibbs, retired not out), 2-194 (Rhodes, 38.2 ov), 3-194 (Dippenaar, 38.5 ov), 4-213 (Boucher, 43.3 ov), 5-247 (Kallis, 49.2 ov), 6-251 (Klusener, 49.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Z Khan | 9 | 2 | 27 | 1 | 3.00 | (4w) | ||
| A Nehra | 7.3 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 5.46 | (1w) | ||
| A Kumble | 10 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 5.30 | |||
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 3.70 | |||
| Yuvraj Singh | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 5.66 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 1.3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 10.00 | |||
| SR Tendulkar | 4 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| V Sehwag | 5 | 0 | 25 | 3 | 5.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Series India advanced |
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ODI debut
RJ Peterson
(South Africa) Player of the match V Sehwag (India) |
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Umpires
DR Shepherd (England) and RB Tiffin (Zimbabwe) TV umpire DJ Harper (Australia) Match referee RS Madugalle |
| Match notes |
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Oct 17, 2003 VVS Laxman pulls against South Africa at Colombo © Getty Images |
Sep 25, 2002 Both Kallis and Dravid cannot get to grips with this delivery from Harbhajan © Cricinfo Ltd |
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