India v/s South Africa 2nd ODI: India Wins by 153 Runs

Inspite of the century by AB de Villiers went in vein because of no support was found by him during his inning in the 2nd ODI in Gwalior. After all India wins by 153 runs in the second ODI in Gwalior.

Scene was started when Sachin Tendulkar started his inning by hitting his first 4 in the 2nd over of the match and then he didn't look back and ends with the record individual score of 200* in the ODIs breaking previous highest of Coventry & Anwar. Who held this for a long time.

Dinesh Karthik made 79 off 85 balls. Dhoni remained unbeaten on 68 off 35 balls, while Yusuf Pathan contributed 36. Tendulkar and Dhoni added unbeaten 101 runs for the fourth wicket. India finished at 401/3 in 50 overs. Chasing a victory target of 402, South Africa kept losing wickets at regular intervals and never came back into the match.

South Afirca finally bowled out for 248 in 42.5 overs and lost the match by 153 runs. Villiers remained unbeaten on 114. Hashim Amla made 34.

For India, Sreesanth took 3 wickets, while Ashish Nehra, Ravindra Jadeja and Yusuf Pathan took 2 wickets each. Sachin Tendulkar was declared 'Man of the Match'.

"I dedicate this double hundred to the people of India, who stood by me over these 20 years and always supported me through thick and thin", said Sachin Tendulkar.

It was very good performance by Indian batsmen and bowlers as well. Team efforts lead India to win the match and the series as well.

Next Match: 3rd ODI India v/s South Africa, at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad on Feb 27 , 2010 - Saturday.

India v/s South Africa 1st ODI: India Win Thriller by 1 Run

Another good day for indian cricket, indian cricketers & indian cricket fans. India win 1st odi against south africa by just 1 run. What a game of cricket that was. No one can decide in between who is gone a win the match. It was totally mind blowing game by both the teams. Players of both teams done very hard work for the match.

South African captian Kallis won the toss and elected to field first. Visitors know that the due factor come in the play in the later game and spinners will have problems bowling on the batsman pitch. Its really a nice pitch to bat on at Jaipur. India loose Sachin at his individual score at 4. Sehwag was disapponted with the runout himself as well on 46. India loose wickets at regular intervals. After Raina & Kohli made good partnership and make a healthy total of 298/9 for the visitors.

South Africa loose Bosman and Gibbs early and then Kallis was the main headache for the Indian bowlers. But Jadeja done very well by best figure bowling in the match. He took 2 wickets for only 29 runs given in 10 overs. He was judged man of the match for his 22 odd runs and the good bowling as well. India manage to keep kallis quite but the end was very dramatic. Tailenders Dale Styne & Wayne Parnell scored very fast in the end and took match to the last over where they just lost by a whisker.

It was really a good game of cricket once again and visitors were very disappointed for the match by loosing by only 1 run.

India leads the 3 odi series by 1-0. South Africa have to win both the games for moving to the 2nd spot in the ICC ODI Rankings and wining series as well.

India V/s South Africa ODI (One Day) Series Schedule

1st ODI: India v South Africa at Jaipur
Feb 21 (14:30 local, 09:00 GMT)

2nd ODI: India v South Africa at Gwalior
Feb 24 (14:30 local, 09:00 GMT)

3rd ODI: India v South Africa at Ahmedabad
Feb 27 (14:30 local, 09:00 GMT)

Indian ODI Squad for 1st & 2nd ODI Against South Africa:

MS Dhoni
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravindra Jadeja
Dinesh Karthik
Virat Kohli
Praveen Kumar
Amit Mishra
Abhishek Nayar
Ashish Nehra
Yusuf Pathan
Suresh Raina
Virender Sehwag
Sreesanth
Sachin Tendulkar
Sudeep Tyagi
Zaheer Khan

South African ODI Squad for ODI Against India:

Jacques Kallis (c)
Hashim Amla
Loots Bosman
Johan Botha
Mark Boucher (wk)
AB de Villiers
Jean-Paul Duminy
Herschelle Gibbs
Charl Langeveldt
Albie Morkel
Morne Morkel
Wayne Parnell
Alviro Petersen
Dale Steyn
Lonwabo TsotsobeRoelof
van der Merwe