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South African cricket team in India in 2007–08

	South Africa	India
Dates	20 March 2008 – 15 April 2008
Captains	Graeme Smith	Anil Kumble Mahendra Singh Dhoni (3rd Test)
Test series
Result	3-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Neil McKenzie (341)	Virender Sehwag (372)
Most wickets	Dale Steyn (15)	Harbhajan Singh (19)
Player of the series	Harbhajan Singh (IND)

The South African cricket team toured India between 26 March and 13 April 2008, playing 3 Tests against India. The series was tied 1–1.

Squads

Test Squads
India	South Africa
Anil Kumble (c)	Graeme Smith (c)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk)	Mark Boucher (wk)
Wasim Jaffer	Ashwell Prince
Virender Sehwag	Hashim Amla
Rahul Dravid	AB de Villiers
Sachin Tendulkar	Jean-Paul Duminy
Saurav Ganguly	Paul Harris
V V S Laxman	Jacques Kallis
Yuvraj Singh	Charl Langeveldt
Irfan Pathan	Neil McKenzie
Harbhajan Singh	Morné Morkel
Murali Kartik	Makhaya Ntini
Rudra Pratap Singh	Robin Peterson
S. Sreesanth	Dale Steyn

Test series

1st Test

26 March – 30 March
Scorecard

South Africa	v	India
540 (152.5 overs) Hashim Amla 159 (262) Harbhajan Singh 6/164 (44.5 overs)		627 (155.1 overs) Virender Sehwag 319 (304) Dale Steyn 4/103 (32 overs)
331/5(dec) (109 overs) Neil McKenzie 155* (339) Harbhajan Singh 3/101 (34 overs)

Match Drawn
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Umpires: Asad Rauf and Tony Hill
Player of the match: Virender Sehwag (IND)

Virender Sehwag's 309* on day three was the second time an Indian has scored a triple century. Sehwag also scored the first one.
Sehwag became the first Indian batsman to score two triple centuries in tests.
Sehwag also scored the fastest triple century in terms of deliveries (278).
Sehwag is the third batsman after Brian Lara and Don Bradman to score two triple centuries.
Sehwag scored 257 runs on day three, making him the first batsman to score more than 250 runs in a day in a test match in over 50 years. There are only three other batsman that bettered this: Don Bradman twice (309) and (271), Wally Hammond (295), and Denis Compton (273).
Sehwag is also the first batsman to be involved in two double century stands, 213 for the first wicket and a 268 run partnership for the second wicket. This also the first time that a double century stand has occurred for the first and second wicket in an innings.
Each of Sehwag's last ten centuries have been greater than 150.
In the 14 innings when Sehwag has scored a century, his strike rate has been 77.79. Among batsmen with at least ten Test hundreds, only Adam Gilchrist has a faster strike-rate in centuries (99.64).

2nd Test

3 – 7 April
Scorecard

India	v	South Africa
76 (20 overs) Irfan Pathan 21* (17) Dale Steyn 5/23 (8 overs)		494/7(dec) (141.2 overs) AB de Villiers 217* (333) Harbhajan Singh 4/135 (40 overs)
328 (94.2 overs) Sourav Ganguly 87 (149) Makhaya Ntini 3/44 (16.2 overs)

South Africa won by an innings & 90 runs
Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad
Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WIN) and Tony Hill (NZL)
Player of the match: AB de Villiers (SA)

3rd Test

11 – 15 April
Scorecard

South Africa	v	India
265 (87.3 overs) Graeme Smith 69 (134) Harbhajan Singh 3/52 (31 overs)		325 (99.4 overs) Sourav Ganguly 87 (119) Morné Morkel 3/57 (13 overs)
121 (55.5 overs) Graeme Smith 35 (90) Harbhajan Singh 4/44 (23 overs)		64/2 (13.1 overs) Virender Sehwag 22 (12) Morné Morkel 1/8 (5 overs)

India won by 8 wickets
Green Park Stadium, Kanpur
Umpires: Asad Rauf (PAK) and Billy Doctrove (WIN)
Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (IND)

MS Dhoni (Ind) captained India for the first time in Tests.

References

"Sehwag smashes triple ton". Fox Sports. 28 March 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2022.

External links

South African cricket team in India in 2007–08 at ESPN Cricinfo

v t e International cricket in 2007–08
Preceding season: International cricket in 2007
September 2007	Kenya Twenty20 Quadrangular ICC World Twenty20 Final
October 2007	South Africa in Pakistan Australia in India Intercontinental Cup
November 2007	England in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka in Australia Pakistan in India New Zealand in South Africa West Indies in Zimbabwe
December 2007	Chappell–Hadlee Trophy India in Australia West Indies in South Africa Bangladesh in New Zealand
January 2008	Zimbabwe in Pakistan
February 2008	Under-19 World Cup Commonwealth Bank Series England in New Zealand South Africa in Bangladesh England women in Australia
March 2008	South Africa in India Sri Lanka in West Indies Ireland in Bangladesh England women in New Zealand
Following season: International cricket in 2008

International cricket tours of India

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2016–17 2018 2019–20 2021–22 2023–24
Australia	1956–57 1959–60 1964–65 1969–70 1979–80 1984–85 1986–87 1996–97 1997–98 2000–01 2004–05 2007 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2012–13 2013–14 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2022–23 2023–24
Bangladesh	2016–17 2018 2019–20 2024–25
England	1933–34 1951–52 1961–62 1963–64 1972–73 1976–77 1979–80 1981–82 1984–85 1992–93 2001–02 2005–06 2008–09 2011–12 2012–13 2016–17 2020–21 2023–24 2024–25
Ireland	2016–17 2018–19 2019–20
New Zealand	1955–56 1964–65 1969–70 1976–77 1988–89 1995–96 1999–2000 2003–04 2010–11 2012 2016–17 2017–18 2021–22 2022–23 2024–25
Pakistan	1952–53 1960–61 1979–80 1983–84 1986–87 1998–99 2004–05 2007–08 2012–13
South Africa	1991–92 1996–97 1999–2000 2004–05 2005–06 2007–08 2009–10 2015–16 2019–20 2022 2022–23
Sri Lanka	1982–83 1986–87 1990–91 1993–94 1997–98 2005–06 2006–07 2009–10 2014–15 2015–16 2017–18 2019–20 2021–22
West Indies	1948–49 1958–59 1966–67 1974–75 1978–79 1983–84 1987–88 1994–95 2002–03 2006–07 2011–12 2013–14 2014–15 2018–19 2019–20 2021–22 2025–26
Zimbabwe	1992–93 2000–01 2001–02

Tournaments hosted
World Cup	1987 1996 2011 2023
Men's T20 World Cup	2016 2021
Champions Trophy	2006
Asia Cup	1990–91
Multiple teams	1989 1993 1994–95 1996–97 1997 1997–98 1997–98 1998–99 2003–04

Other tours
Australian	1935–36 1945–46
Ceylonese/Sri Lankan	1932–33 1940–41 1952–53 1955–56 1957–58 1959–60 1961–62 1964–65 1966–67 1968–69 1970–71 1972–73 1974–75 1975–76
Dutch	1994–95 2012–13
English	1889–90 1892–93 1926–27 1937–38 1956–57 1963–64 1994–95 2005–06 2023–24
Kenyan	1999–00 2011–12
Multi-national	1930–31 1949–50 1950–51 1953–54 1961–62 1964–65 1967–68
Tanzanian	2006–07

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