Sehwag and Tendulkar hit centuries to lift India
South Africa Vs India :- South Africa struck with three late wickets to put the second Test against India almost back at Eden Gardens after Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar hit centuries to lift India to pass Proteas first-innings total.
Tendulkar hit 106 – his 47th century in five-day cricket – while Sehwag smashed 23 fours and two sixes in his 174-ball 165, his 19th hundred as as India take a step ahead in view of squaring series. Both shared a double century partnership for the third wicket before the introduction of JP Duminy, proved crucial for South Africa, the bowler dispatched Sehwag and then Tendulkar was caught by Jacques Kallis off Paul Harris and Subramaniam Badrinath fell to Steyn.
Earlier in the day, the South Africans added 30 runs to their overnight total before Wayne Parnell became Zaheer Khan’s (4-90) fourth victim while Harbhajan Singh finished with three conceded 64.
India in reply lost two quick wickets with Gautam Gambhir falling for 25 and Murali Vijay for just seven. But Tendulkar and Sehwag put together a partnership of 249 to put India on driving seat.
The day ended up with unbeaten batsmen VVS Laxman (9) and Amit Mishra (1) at the crease with eyes on a big first-innings lead to put pressure on the South Africans. The home side on 342/5 in quick succession at the close for an overall lead of 46 runs.
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Ind Vs Sa Live Score
KOLKATA:Ind Vs Sa Live Score, India Vs South Africa, South Africa were bowled out for 296 in their first innings on the second morning of the second and final test against India at the Eden Gardens on Monday.
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South Africa’s last wicket pair of Morne Morkel (11 not out) and Wayne Parnell (12) put on another 30 runs in four overs before left-arm pacer Zaheer Khan struck after the tourists resumed on 266-9.
Zaheer dismissed Parnell lbw with the new ball to finish with four for 90 after triggering a stunning collapse on the opening day in which the tourists lost seven wickets in the final session.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh finished with three for 64 after playing a key role in India’s fightback after debutant Alviro Petersen (100) and in-form Hashim Amla (114) hit centuries to give South Africa a solid start.
India must square the series to hold on to the number one ranking.
The tourists are bidding for their first test series victory in India in almost a decade after taking a 1-0 lead in the two-match series with an innings win in Nagpur.
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Ind Vs Sa Live Score was first posted on February 15, 2010 at 11:43 am.
India peg back South Africa despite Petersen, Amla ton
India pegged back South Africa on the first day of the second and final test match at Eden Garden in Kolkata. The visitors lost seven wickets for 32 runs in the evening session as hosts fought back strongly to turned the thing around.
Earlier in the day South Africa after opting bat first off to a shaky start when lost captain Graeme Smith in the day’s third over but with centuries from the debutant Alviro Petersen and Hashim Amla gave Proteas a solid platform for a big one.
Petersen knocked 100 and Amla scored 114 to lift the Proteas to 2-229, before India rattled the line-up and reduced them at 266-9 before the days stumped. But it was Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh who denied Proteas’ fluent proceedings to pushed them on back foot.
Petersen – who was handed a Test cap at the last minute after wicket-keeper Mark Boucher was ruled out with back spasms, took the golden chance with both hand to smack 16 boundaries in his superb hundred. While Amla – who was unbeaten 253 in the first Test, departed after hitting 14 boundaries and a six to his 114 off 166 balls before felling to Zaheer.
Harbhajan trapped Ashwell Prince and JP Duminy lbw off successive deliveries, but tail-ender Dale Steyn denied off-spinner’ hat-trick. AB de Villiers (12), Paul Harris (one) and Steyn (5) back in hut, leaving the last pair of Wayne Parnell (2*) and Morne Morkell (3*) at the crease.
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South Africa Beat England Square Series
JOHANNESBURG:Morne Morkel routed England’s lower-order in a spell of 3 for 0 in six deliveries, before JP Duminy extracted the battling Paul Collingwood for a brave but futile 71, as South Africa levelled the series – and retained the Basil D’Oliveira Trophy – with a crushing innings-and-74-run victory at the Wanderers.
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The victory was delivered on the stroke of the lunch-break when Ryan Sidebottom missed a slog-sweep to give Duminy his second wicket in an 11-ball spell.
England had resumed the fourth day in deep trouble on 48 for 3, still trailing by 195 with two full days remaining in the contest. Collingwood responded with a gutsy and well-judged 71 from 88 balls, as he shed the outright obduracy that had carried England to safety at Centurion and Cape Town, and climbed into his cross-batted repertoire whenever South Africa strayed in line or length.
But he alone located the correct balance between watchfulness and aggression, as he picked 12 fours and a six in total, comprising an even mixture of cuts, pulls, drives and genuine edges. But all too few of his colleagues were capable of emulating his efforts. His overnight partner, Kevin Pietersen, hung around for 10 overs in the first hour and seemed to be finding his range once again as he contributed an improbably meagre three runs to a fourth-wicket stand of 36. But the debutant Wayne Parnell tempted him with an outswinger that drew a rash snick to the keeper, and that was the end of that.
Collingwood kept up the intensity, lacing Ryan McLaren through the slips before hoisting Steyn up and over long-off for the first and only six of England’s innings. But with just two wickets still standing and a deficit of 89 still to be surmounted, he was eventually extracted by JP Duminy’s first delivery of the day – a top-edged hoick off an ignominious long-hop, that flew at a comfortable height straight to Morkel at deep square leg.
Sidebottom and James Anderson played their shots for 16 deliveries, efore Sidebottom sized up one slog too many, and the rattle of timbers signalled a richly deserved South African win.
South Africa Beat England Square Series was first posted on January 17, 2010 at 5:34 pm.
England Vs South Africa Johannesburg Live match
England Vs South Africa, Johannesburg Live match:-
England 202/6 (19.6 ov) South Africa 13/0 (2.1 ov) .
England go into the first T20I with the embarassment of losing a warm-up match against South Africa A at Bloemfontein. The visitors were bundled out for a paltry 89 on Tuesday. The batsmen seem to be low in confidence but the bowlers did well for them by stretching that match till the 18th over and taking six wickets of a decent South Africa A side.
Here are the two squads for tonight’s Twenty20 International :
South Africa : Graeme Smith (Captain), 2 Loots Bosman, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Jacques Kallis, Albie Morkel, Heino Kuhn, Mark Boucher (Wicket Keeper), Ryan McLaren, Roelof van der Merwe, Wayne Parnell, Johan Botha, Yusuf Abdulla, Dale Steyn, Charl Langeveldt
England : Paul Collingwood (Captain), Joe Denly, Luke Wright, Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Eoin Morgan, Matt Prior (Wicket Keeper), Tim Bresnan, Adil Rashid, Graeme Swann, Stuart Broad, Sajid Mahmood, James Anderson, Graham Onions
England Vs South Africa Johannesburg Live match was first posted on November 13, 2009 at 11:16 pm.
South Africa takes on England at Wanderers in the first T20I tonight
The South Africa-England Series kickstarts today with a T20I at the New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg tonight. The two teams will clash again tomorrow in a simlar format before heading into the more serious business of the ODI and the Test Series.
England go into the first T20I with the embarassment of losing a warm-up match against South Africa A at Bloemfontein. The visitors were bundled out for a paltry 89 on Tuesday. The batsmen seem to be low in confidence but the bowlers did well for them by stretching that match till the 18th over and taking six wickets of a decent South Africa A side.
Here are the two squads for tonight’s Twenty20 International :
South Africa : Graeme Smith (Captain), 2 Loots Bosman, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Jacques Kallis, Albie Morkel, Heino Kuhn, Mark Boucher (Wicket Keeper), Ryan McLaren, Roelof van der Merwe, Wayne Parnell, Johan Botha, Yusuf Abdulla, Dale Steyn, Charl Langeveldt
England : Paul Collingwood (Captain), Joe Denly, Luke Wright, Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Eoin Morgan, Matt Prior (Wicket Keeper), Tim Bresnan, Adil Rashid, Graeme Swann, Stuart Broad, Sajid Mahmood, James Anderson, Graham Onions
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