South African cricket team in India in 2007–08

South African cricket team in India in 2007–08
South African cricket team in India in 2007–08
	South Africa
Dates	20 March 2008 – 15 April 2008
Captains	Graeme Smith
Test series
Result	3-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Neil McKenzie (341)
Most wickets	Dale Steyn (15)
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

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.^[1]
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).

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)

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)