# South African cricket team in India in 2009–10

The South Africa national cricket team toured India for a two-match Test series, and a three-match One Day International (ODI) series in February 2010.

## Squads

| South Africa Batsmen Graeme Smith (captain) Hashim Amla Loots Bosman AB de Villiers JP Duminy Herschelle Gibbs Alviro Petersen Ashwell Prince All-rounders Johan Botha Jacques Kallis Ryan McLaren Albie Morkel Wicket-keepers Mark Boucher Bowlers Paul Harris Roelof van der Merwe Morné Morkel Wayne Parnell Dale Steyn Lonwabo Tsotsobe | India Batsmen Subramaniam Badrinath Gautam Gambhir VVS Laxman Virender Sehwag Sachin Tendulkar Murali Vijay Wicket-keepers MS Dhoni (captain) Wriddhiman Saha Bowlers Zaheer Khan Amit Mishra Abhimanyu Mithun Pragyan Ojha Ishant Sharma Harbhajan Singh Sudeep Tyagi |

## Tour matches
### 2-day: Board President's XI v South Africans

* 2–3 February 2010 Scorecard
* Match drawn Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Umpires: Sudhir Asnani and Ulhas Gandhe

## Test series
### 1st Test

* 6–10 February Scorecard
* South Africa won by an innings and 6 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur Umpires: SJ Davis (Aus) and IJ Gould (Eng) Player of the match: HM Amla (SA)
* South Africa won the toss and elected to bat
* Subramaniam Badrinath and Wriddhiman Saha made Test cricket debuts for Indian cricket team.
* Hashim Amla accumulated the highest Test score by a South African in India by scoring in 253* runs.
* This was India's first Test defeat under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

### 2nd Test

* 14–18 February Scorecard
* India won by an innings and 58 runs Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: SJ Davis (Aus) and IJ Gould (Eng) Player of the match: HM Amla
* South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
* Alviro Petersen's score of 100 in the first innings is the third highest by a South African cricketer on a Test debut.
* The partnership of 249 runs between Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag is the highest partnership for 3rd wicket at the Eden Gardens.
* Hashim Amla scored 494 runs throughout the series, having been dismissed only once, retaining an average of 494, the second highest batting average ever in a Test series, after Wally Hammond.

## ODI series
### 1st ODI

* 21 February 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| India 298/9 (50 overs) | v | South Africa 297/10 (50 overs) |
| SK Raina 58 (63) JH Kallis 3/29 [7] | | JH Kallis 89 (97) RA Jadeja 2/29 [10] |
* India won by 1 run Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: AM Saheba (Ind) and SK Tarapore (Ind)
* South Africa won the toss and elected to field.

### 2nd ODI

* 24 February 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| India 401/3 (50 overs) | v | South Africa 248 (42.5 overs) |
| SR Tendulkar 200* (147) WD Parnell 2/95 [10] | | AB de Villiers 114* (101) S Sreesanth 3/49 [7] |
* India won by 153 runs Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior Umpires: IJ Gould (Eng) and SK Tarapore (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.
* Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) became the first men's cricketer ever to score a double century in ODIs.

### 3rd ODI

* 27 February 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| South Africa 365/2 (50 overs) | v | India 275 (44.3 overs) |
| JH Kallis 104* (94) RA Jadeja 1/53 [10] | | V Kohli 57 (71) DW Steyn 3/37 [8] |
* South Africa won by 90 runs Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Umpires: IJ Gould (Eng) and SS Hazare (Ind) Player of the match: AB de Villiers (SA)
* South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first.

## Media coverage
### Television

* NEO Cricket (live) - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Hong Kong (China) and UAE
* Doordarshan (live) (only one-day matches) - India
* Sky Sports (live) - Ireland and the United Kingdom
* Zee Sports (live) - United States of America
* Supersport (live) – South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe
* Setanta Sports Australia (live) - Australia
* GEO Super (live) - Pakistan
* Astro Box Office (pay per view) - Malaysia
* StarHub (pay per view) - Singapore