The Indian cricket team toured South Africa for three Tests, five Odis & one T20I from 16 November 2006 to 6 January 2007.
South Africa won the Test series 2–1. After India won the first Test at New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa rallied to win the 2nd Test at Kingsmead in Durban and the third Test at Newlands in Cape Town.
South Africa won the ODI series 4–0, which was India's first ODI series without a win since 1997.
There was also one Twenty20 International, which India won.
Schedule No. Date Home captain Away captain Venue Result Tour Games One Day 16 Nov 2006 Ashwell Prince Rahul Dravid Willowmoore Park won by 37 runs FC match 7–10 Dec 2006 Jacques Rudolph VVS Laxman Sedgars Park won by 96 runs One-day International Series 1st ODI 19 Nov 2006 Graeme Smith Rahul Dravid New Wanderers Stadium Match abandoned due to rain. 2nd ODI 22 Nov 2006 Graeme Smith Rahul Dravid Kingsmead won by 157 runs 3rd ODI 26 Nov 2006 Graeme Smith Rahul Dravid Newlands won by 106 runs 4th ODI 29 Nov 2006 Graeme Smith Virender Sehwag St George's Park won by 80 runs 5th ODI 3 Dec 2006 Graeme Smith Virender Sehwag SuperSport Park won by 9 wickets Twenty20 International 1st 20/20 1 Dec 2006 Graeme Smith Virender Sehwag New Wanderers Stadium won by 6 wickets Test Series 1st Test 15–19 Dec 2006 Graeme Smith Rahul Dravid New Wanderers Stadium won by 123 runs 2nd Test 26–30 Dec 2006 Graeme Smith Rahul Dravid Kingsmead won by 174 runs 3rd Test 2–6 Jan 2007 Graeme Smith Rahul Dravid Newlands won by 5 wickets
Squads
Indian ODI SquadJaffer, Zaheer and Kumble added to ODI squad, retrieved from ESPNcricinfo, 30 October 2006 Rahul Dravid (Captain) | Sachin Tendulkar | Virender Sehwag | Suresh Raina | Mohammad Kaif | Ajit Agarkar | Dinesh Mongia | Harbhajan Singh Anil Kumble | Wasim Jaffer | Zaheer Khan | Mahendra Dhoni (wk) | Irfan Pathan | Munaf Patel | Dinesh Karthik (wk) | S Sreesanth | VVS LaxmanVVS Laxman was flown in as a replacement for Dravid following an injury during the 3rd ODI
Indian Test SquadGanguly in, Laxman appointed vice-captain, retrieved from ESPNcricinfo, 30 November 2006 Rahul Dravid (Captain) | Sachin Tendulkar | Virender Sehwag | V. R. V. Singh | | Sourav Ganguly | Gautam Gambhir | Harbhajan Singh Anil Kumble | Wasim Jaffer | Zaheer Khan | Irfan Pathan* | Mahendra Dhoni (wk) | Munaf Patel | Dinesh Karthik (wk) | S Sreesanth | VVS Laxman
Irfan Pathan was sent back home before the second test due to poor bowling form.
South Africa ODI SquadSouth Africa name unchanged squad, retrieved from BBC, 8 November 2006 Graeme Smith (Captain) | Loots Bosman | Mark Boucher (wk) | AB de Villiers (wk) | Boeta DippenaarPrince replaced Dippenaar for the last 2 ODIs | Herschelle Gibbs Andrew Hall | Justin Kemp | Jacques Kallis | Charl Langeveldt | André Nel | Makhaya Ntini | Robin Peterson | Shaun Pollock | Ashwell Prince
South Africa Test SquadSouth Africa announce Test squad, retrieved from ESPNcricinfo, 7 December 2006 Graeme Smith (Captain) | Jacques Kallis | Mark Boucher (wk) | Abraham de Villiers | Jacques Rudolph | Herschelle Gibbs Andrew Hall | Nicky Boje | Paul Harris | Dale Steyn | André Nel | Makhaya Ntini | Hashim Amla | Shaun Pollock | Ashwell Prince
Tour Match Tour Match: Rest of South Africa v Indians, 16 November
ODI series 1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
Virender Sehwag captained India after Rahul Dravid was ruled out for rest of the series following an injury. South Africa recovered from a bad start to reach 243 at the end of 50 overs. Gibbs remained unbeaten on 93 while Kallis and Pollock chipped in with 49 and 37 respectively. Anil Kumble was the best bowler for India on the day picking up 2 wickets for 42 runs. Chasing 244 under lights, India got off to a steady start losing their first wicket in the 6th over with 23 runs on the board. Wickets fell at regular intervals and this meant that India never had a chance of overhauling the South African score. Irfan Pathan was the pick of the batsmen scoring 47 runs.
5th ODI
India put on another abysmal batting performance scoring just 200 off the allocated 50 overs. Sachin Tendulkar topscored for the visitors with a sedate 55 off 97 balls. Mongia and Dhoni chipped in with useful 40's.
South Africa reached the target in just 31.2 overs. Pollock was named Man of the Match for his bowling performance which included 4 maidens and 2 wickets.
With this victory, South Africa wrapped up the series 4–0 with the first game washed out.
Only T20I
India pulled off its first victory of the tour with a close Twenty20 win after Dinesh Karthik steered India towards victory with a controlled innings by Twenty20 standards. This was India's first Twenty20 International ever.
Test Series
Tour Match: Rest of South Africa v India (7–10 December)
First Test
India beat South Africa by 123 runs and took a 1–0 lead in the series. This was also India's first test victory in South African soil.
Second Test
Third Test
Notes
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo