| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GC Smith* | c Laxman b Kumble | 73 | 157 | 97 | 13 | 0 | 75.25 | |
| ND McKenzie | c Dravid b Harbhajan Singh | 94 | 230 | 156 | 18 | 0 | 60.25 | |
| HM Amla | run out (Sreesanth/†Dhoni/Kumble) | 159 | 406 | 262 | 20 | 0 | 60.68 | |
| JH Kallis | c Jaffer b Harbhajan Singh | 13 | 57 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 30.95 | |
| AG Prince | c & b Kumble | 23 | 68 | 60 | 2 | 0 | 38.33 | |
| AB de Villiers | c †Dhoni b Sreesanth | 44 | 66 | 58 | 8 | 0 | 75.86 | |
| MV Boucher† | c Dravid b Sehwag | 70 | 216 | 146 | 9 | 0 | 47.94 | |
| M Morkel | c & b Harbhajan Singh | 35 | 91 | 54 | 7 | 0 | 64.81 | |
| PL Harris | c †Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh | 5 | 26 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 31.25 | |
| DW Steyn | c Singh b Harbhajan Singh | 15 | 22 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 71.42 | |
| M Ntini | not out | 1 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 5, w 1, nb 1) | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 152.5 overs; 679 mins) | 540 | (3.53 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RP Singh | 23 | 1 | 111 | 0 | 4.82 | |||
| S Sreesanth | 26 | 5 | 104 | 1 | 4.00 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| A Kumble | 45 | 11 | 106 | 2 | 2.35 | |||
| Harbhajan Singh | 44.5 | 4 | 164 | 5 | 3.65 | |||
| V Sehwag | 11 | 1 | 37 | 1 | 3.36 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4.00 |
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| W Jaffer | c Kallis b Harris | 73 | 250 | 166 | 6 | 1 | 43.97 | |
| V Sehwag | c McKenzie b Ntini | 319 | 530 | 304 | 42 | 5 | 104.93 | |
| R Dravid | c Kallis b Ntini | 111 | 396 | 291 | 15 | 0 | 38.14 | |
| SR Tendulkar | c Kallis b Ntini | 0 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SC Ganguly | c †Boucher b Harris | 24 | 56 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 82.75 | |
| VVS Laxman | c & b Harris | 39 | 162 | 64 | 4 | 0 | 60.93 | |
| MS Dhoni† | c †Boucher b Steyn | 16 | 49 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 48.48 | |
| A Kumble* | b Steyn | 3 | 23 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| Harbhajan Singh | b Steyn | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RP Singh | b Steyn | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| S Sreesanth | not out | 4 | 25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 26.66 | |
| Extras | (b 20, lb 10, w 4, nb 4) | 38 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 155.1 overs; 760 mins) | 627 | (4.04 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Steyn | 32 | 3 | 103 | 4 | 3.21 | |||
| M Ntini | 28 | 3 | 128 | 3 | 4.57 | |||
| M Morkel | 25 | 4 | 76 | 0 | 3.04 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| PL Harris | 53.1 | 6 | 203 | 3 | 3.81 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| JH Kallis | 14 | 0 | 71 | 0 | 5.07 | |||
| AG Prince | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 5.33 | (1w) |
| South Africa 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ND McKenzie | not out | 155 | 445 | 339 | 13 | 1 | 45.72 | |
| GC Smith* | lbw b Harbhajan Singh | 35 | 60 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 116.66 | |
| HM Amla | c Dravid b Kumble | 81 | 200 | 148 | 9 | 0 | 54.72 | |
| JH Kallis | c Singh b Harbhajan Singh | 19 | 69 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 47.50 | |
| AG Prince | c Jaffer b Harbhajan Singh | 5 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 45.45 | |
| AB de Villiers | c Ganguly b Sehwag | 11 | 50 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 26.82 | |
| MV Boucher† | not out | 11 | 50 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 23.91 | |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 5, nb 1) | 14 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets dec; 109 overs; 445 mins) | 331 | (3.03 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat M Morkel, PL Harris, DW Steyn, M Ntini |
| Fall of wickets1-53 (Smith, 10.3 ov), 2-210 (Amla, 56.6 ov), 3-264 (Kallis, 76.2 ov), 4-272 (Prince, 78.6 ov), 5-306 (de Villiers, 94.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| S Sreesanth | 12 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 3.50 | (1nb) | ||
| RP Singh | 9 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 4.77 | |||
| Harbhajan Singh | 34 | 1 | 101 | 3 | 2.97 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 | |||
| A Kumble | 20 | 2 | 57 | 1 | 2.85 | |||
| V Sehwag | 22 | 2 | 55 | 1 | 2.50 | |||
| VVS Laxman | 10 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 1.90 |
| Match details |
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Toss South Africa, who chose to bat Series 3-match series level 0-0 |
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Player of the match
V Sehwag (India) |
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Umpires
Asad Rauf (Pakistan) and AL Hill (New Zealand) TV umpire AM Saheba Match referee RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) Reserve umpire SK Tarapore |
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Close of play 26 Mar day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 304/4 (HM Amla 85*, AB de Villiers 10*, 90 ov) 27 Mar day 2 - India 1st innings 82/0 (W Jaffer 25*, V Sehwag 52*, 21 ov) 28 Mar day 3 - India 1st innings 468/1 (V Sehwag 309*, R Dravid 65*, 106 ov) 29 Mar day 4 - South Africa 2nd innings 131/1 (ND McKenzie 59*, HM Amla 35*, 33 ov) 30 Mar day 5 - South Africa 2nd innings 331/5d (109 ov) - end of match |
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Mar 30, 2008 Makhaya Ntini has a hearty laugh with Gary Kirsten © Getty Images |
Mar 30, 2008 Asad Rauf gets a pat on the back from Mahendra Singh Dhoni © AFP |
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