South Africa vs India in Nagpur – Day 3

Published 8 February 2010 | By superBul

Welcome to the third day of the first India-South Africa Test. A lot rides on the openers today from India’s point of view. In fact Steyn and Morkel v Sehwag and Gambhir has been the big contest within the contest. This contest over four innings could well decide which way the series goes.

South Africa 558/6d

India 233 & 66/2 (23.0 ov)

South Africa won the toss and elected to bat

Stumps – Day 3

South Africa in India Test Series – 1st Test
Test no. 1951 | 2009/10 season
Played at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur
6,7,8,9,10 February 2010 (5-day match)


South Africa 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
GC Smith*	b Khan	6	29	26	0	0	23.07
6.3 136.3 kph, No doubt this time. The death knell. It landed on a length around the off stump line, cut in and caught Smith out. Smith was very tentative in defense, moved his arms rather awkwardly and got the bat in an angle. The ball moved through the bat and pad gap to clean up the stumps. Clatter! Good ball, poor defensive effort. 6/2
AG Prince	c †Dhoni b Khan	0	19	10	0	0	0.00
4.3 128.4 kph, Given out caught behind but it went of the arm-guard. Now then… now then .. What a ferocious delivery. Zaheer Khan serves up a well-directed bouncer at the face. A stunned Prince takes out the bottom-hand off the handle and offers the bat as a face-shield. The ball crashes into the arm-guard and pops up to Dhoni. It has been given out. Prince staggers out towards Smith, perhaps asking whether we have UDRS here. No. And off he goes. 5/1
HM Amla	not out	253	675	473	22	0	53.48

JH Kallis	c Vijay b Harbhajan Singh	173	419	351	15	2	49.28
113.2 92.2 kph, Kallis misses the double ton. Again. This one turned from outside off, he shaped to defend but got a thick inside edge on to the pad and it popped up to Vijay at short-leg. Kallis might have dawdled today but he was magnificent yesterday. 346/3
AB de Villiers	c Badrinath b Sehwag	53	104	88	5	0	60.22
141.1 84.6 kph, went down the track, reached out for the delivery well outside off stump and tried to loft it over the bowler but got a leading edge to backward point. Simple catch. Sehwag is delighted. 454/4
JP Duminy	lbw b Harbhajan Singh	9	38	35	1	0	25.71
151.5 84.4 kph, flighted from round the stumps, on the middle and leg line, Duminy misses the sweep shot and is struck right in front of the middle. Hawk eye suggests it would have bounced over the off stump. Hmm… 476/5
MV Boucher†	c Mishra b Khan	39	86	75	3	0	52.00
174.2 119.4 kph, Boucher top edges his slog. It was the slower one, full and outside off, Boucher went for the good-old ugly slog over midwicket and edged it over cover where Mishra took the catch 554/6
DW Steyn	not out	0	10	7	0	0	0.00

Extras	(b 8, lb 8, nb 9)	25

Total	(6 wickets dec; 176 overs; 696 mins)	558	(3.17 runs per over)

Did not bat WD Parnell, M Morkel, PL Harris

Fall of wickets1-5 (Prince, 4.3 ov), 2-6 (Smith, 6.3 ov), 3-346 (Kallis, 113.2 ov), 4-454 (de Villiers, 141.1 ov), 5-476 (Duminy, 151.5 ov), 6-554 (Boucher, 174.2 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Z Khan	31	7	96	3	3.09	(4nb)
4.3 to Prince, 128.4 kph, Given out caught behind but it went of the arm-guard. Now then… now then .. What a ferocious delivery. Zaheer Khan serves up a well-directed bouncer at the face. A stunned Prince takes out the bottom-hand off the handle and offers the bat as a face-shield. The ball crashes into the arm-guard and pops up to Dhoni. It has been given out. Prince staggers out towards Smith, perhaps asking whether we have UDRS here. No. And off he goes. 5/16.3 to Smith, 136.3 kph, No doubt this time. The death knell. It landed on a length around the off stump line, cut in and caught Smith out. Smith was very tentative in defense, moved his arms rather awkwardly and got the bat in an angle. The ball moved through the bat and pad gap to clean up the stumps. Clatter! Good ball, poor defensive effort. 6/2 174.2 to Boucher, 119.4 kph, Boucher top edges his slog. It was the slower one, full and outside off, Boucher went for the good-old ugly slog over midwicket and edged it over cover where Mishra took the catch 554/6
I Sharma	28	4	85	0	3.03

Harbhajan Singh	46	1	166	2	3.60
113.2 to Kallis, 92.2 kph, Kallis misses the double ton. Again. This one turned from outside off, he shaped to defend but got a thick inside edge on to the pad and it popped up to Vijay at short-leg. Kallis might have dawdled today but he was magnificent yesterday. 346/3151.5 to Duminy, 84.4 kph, flighted from round the stumps, on the middle and leg line, Duminy misses the sweep shot and is struck right in front of the middle. Hawk eye suggests it would have bounced over the off stump. Hmm… 476/5
A Mishra	53	5	140	0	2.64	(5nb)

V Sehwag	18	1	55	1	3.05
141.1 to de Villiers, 84.6 kph, went down the track, reached out for the delivery well outside off stump and tried to loft it over the bowler but got a leading edge to backward point. Simple catch. Sehwag is delighted. 454/4


India 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
G Gambhir	c †Boucher b Morkel	12	22	15	2	0	80.00
5.1 145.2 kph, ho ho ho what a jaffa right up, of all the deliveries at all the times Morkel bowls this one first ball of the morning! angling in, just back of a length, pitches off, holding its line enough, Gambhir is committed into the stroke but ends up playing inside the line, getting a faint edge 31/1
V Sehwag	c Duminy b Parnell	109	212	139	15	0	78.41
46.4 132.4 kph, A wide delivery gets him a wicket though! Sehwag can’t believe what he has done. He throws his head back and shuts his eyes as he almost winces in pain as he walks off. It was full and well outside off stump, Sehwag reached out and ended up slicing it to deepish cover. Fifth wide ball in a row. Sehwag falls after a fine knock. 192/4
M Vijay	b Steyn	4	15	13	1	0	30.76
8.6 139.5 kph, Clatter! Vijay shoulders arms and hears the death knell. It landed outside off stump, hit the seam and cut in. Vijay lifted his bat in the air and allowed it to pass him but a nasty little surprise awaited him. The ball moved in off the seam to take out the off stump. Crash! Thanks for coming Steyen sticks out his tongue as he reaches the rest of his team-mates. Was it an intended outswinger that hit the seam and came in? Or was it cos of something else . we might never know. 40/2
SR Tendulkar	c †Boucher b Steyn	7	25	16	1	0	43.75
14.1 142.2 kph, Got him! Steyn rulez. It came in the air, landed on a length, around the middle and off stump line and curved away. Tendulkar stuttered out to drive, the length drawing him forward, and he was then done in by the away movement. He did push his bat slightly outside the line, trying to cover for the away swing but the ball moved fractionally more and kissed the outer edge. Fabulous delivery. Tendulkar’s forward movement wasn’t as smooth; he stuttered out… 56/3
S Badrinath	c Prince b Steyn	56	195	139	7	0	40.28
58.1 135.2 kph, Steyn takes out Badrinath. South Africa climb all over India. It was a length delivery on the middle and leg,tailing in with the shiny side, flicked straight to short midwicket. Soft dismissal but that’s that. SA take great control over the game. 221/6
MS Dhoni*†	c Kallis b Harris	6	26	29	1	0	20.68
57.4 84.6 kph, Gone! What a way to go. It kicked in from the rough well outside the leg stump, Dhoni just thought it would turn in to hit his body and sort of lazily held his bat up .. but to his horror the ball bounded off his body on to the gloves/bat and popped up at slip! South Africa tighten the noose. Enter Saha on his debut. 221/5
WP Saha	b Steyn	0	5	3	0	0	0.00
58.4 140.7 kph, Saha does a Vijay, if you can call it that. He shoulders arms and has lost his off stump on debut. It cut in from outside off stump, Saha lets it go but it isn’t going anywhere but towards the off stump. Clatter! Bye bye! 222/7
Harbhajan Singh	lbw b Steyn	8	29	16	1	0	50.00
64.4 Stand up and applaud Steyn. Seven wickets for him and he rushes to get the ball to keep as a souvenir. Full, moving in late with the shiny side, it moves past the defensive prod, to hit the back pad. Dead plumb! 233/10
Z Khan	b Steyn	2	7	8	0	0	25.00
60.3 141.8 kph, Steyn continues to rock on in style. Five-for. It landed short of length, cut in to collide with the inside edge and fell on to the stumps. Zaheer was looking to force it away but ended up pushing an angled bat at it. Gone! 226/8
A Mishra	b Steyn	0	6	9	0	0	0.00
62.2 143.9 kph, Cleaned up! Steyn lets out a roar of joy! Another tailing in with the shiny side, from just outside off stump, Mishra thinks he is GR Viswanath and goes for a late cut and edges it on to his stumps! What a dramatic final session this has been, Immense fun. 228/9
I Sharma	not out	0	8	5	0	0	0.00

Extras	(b 14, lb 6, w 5, nb 4)	29

Total	(all out; 64.4 overs; 294 mins)	233	(3.60 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-31 (Gambhir, 5.1 ov), 2-40 (Vijay, 8.6 ov), 3-56 (Tendulkar, 14.1 ov), 4-192 (Sehwag, 46.4 ov), 5-221 (Dhoni, 57.4 ov), 6-221 (Badrinath, 58.1 ov), 7-222 (Saha, 58.4 ov), 8-226 (Khan, 60.3 ov), 9-228 (Mishra, 62.2 ov), 10-233 (Harbhajan Singh, 64.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DW Steyn	16.4	6	51	7	3.06
8.6 to Vijay, 139.5 kph, Clatter! Vijay shoulders arms and hears the death knell. It landed outside off stump, hit the seam and cut in. Vijay lifted his bat in the air and allowed it to pass him but a nasty little surprise awaited him. The ball moved in off the seam to take out the off stump. Crash! Thanks for coming Steyen sticks out his tongue as he reaches the rest of his team-mates. Was it an intended outswinger that hit the seam and came in? Or was it cos of something else . we might never know. 40/214.1 to Tendulkar, 142.2 kph, Got him! Steyn rulez. It came in the air, landed on a length, around the middle and off stump line and curved away. Tendulkar stuttered out to drive, the length drawing him forward, and he was then done in by the away movement. He did push his bat slightly outside the line, trying to cover for the away swing but the ball moved fractionally more and kissed the outer edge. Fabulous delivery. Tendulkar’s forward movement wasn’t as smooth; he stuttered out… 56/3 58.1 to Badrinath, 135.2 kph, Steyn takes out Badrinath. South Africa climb all over India. It was a length delivery on the middle and leg,tailing in with the shiny side, flicked straight to short midwicket. Soft dismissal but that’s that. SA take great control over the game. 221/6 58.4 to Saha, 140.7 kph, Saha does a Vijay, if you can call it that. He shoulders arms and has lost his off stump on debut. It cut in from outside off stump, Saha lets it go but it isn’t going anywhere but towards the off stump. Clatter! Bye bye! 222/7 60.3 to Khan, 141.8 kph, Steyn continues to rock on in style. Five-for. It landed short of length, cut in to collide with the inside edge and fell on to the stumps. Zaheer was looking to force it away but ended up pushing an angled bat at it. Gone! 226/8 62.2 to Mishra, 143.9 kph, Cleaned up! Steyn lets out a roar of joy! Another tailing in with the shiny side, from just outside off stump, Mishra thinks he is GR Viswanath and goes for a late cut and edges it on to his stumps! What a dramatic final session this has been, Immense fun. 228/9 64.4 to Harbhajan Singh, Stand up and applaud Steyn. Seven wickets for him and he rushes to get the ball to keep as a souvenir. Full, moving in late with the shiny side, it moves past the defensive prod, to hit the back pad. Dead plumb! 233/10
M Morkel	15	4	58	1	3.86	(4nb)
5.1 to Gambhir, 145.2 kph, ho ho ho what a jaffa right up, of all the deliveries at all the times Morkel bowls this one first ball of the morning! angling in, just back of a length, pitches off, holding its line enough, Gambhir is committed into the stroke but ends up playing inside the line, getting a faint edge 31/1
PL Harris	17	2	39	1	2.29
57.4 to Dhoni, 84.6 kph, Gone! What a way to go. It kicked in from the rough well outside the leg stump, Dhoni just thought it would turn in to hit his body and sort of lazily held his bat up .. but to his horror the ball bounded off his body on to the gloves/bat and popped up at slip! South Africa tighten the noose. Enter Saha on his debut. 221/5
WD Parnell	7	1	31	1	4.42	(1w)
46.4 to Sehwag, 132.4 kph, A wide delivery gets him a wicket though! Sehwag can’t believe what he has done. He throws his head back and shuts his eyes as he almost winces in pain as he walks off. It was full and well outside off stump, Sehwag reached out and ended up slicing it to deepish cover. Fifth wide ball in a row. Sehwag falls after a fine knock. 192/4
JH Kallis	6	0	14	0	2.33

JP Duminy	3	0	20	0	6.66


India 2nd innings (following on)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
G Gambhir	b Morkel	1	3	0	0	33.33
1.2 145.2 kph, Stunning! Gotcha! The off stump has been pegged back. That round-the-stumps angle has worked again. This one comes back in from outside off, Gambhir, who out pushing at a delivery earlier in the day, chooses to shoulder arms. Mistake. Big mistake. Crash. The ball kept coming in to give a fatal kiss to the off stump. What a start for SA. 1/1
V Sehwag	c Smith b Steyn	16	19	4	0	84.21
4.4 137.2 kph, The big fish has been caught! Dale Steyn take a bow. It was full, it was outside off stump, it invited a big drive from Sehwag who obliges but the ball shaped away late to fly off the edge straight into the big palms of Smith at first slip. South Africa erupt in joy. What a day they have had. What a day Steyn has had. It has been a treat to watch him bowl a rasping spell of fast swing bowling. 24/2
M Vijay	not out	27	68	4	0	39.70

SR Tendulkar	not out	15	48	2	0	31.25

Extras	(b 2, w 5)	7

Total	(2 wickets; 23 overs)	66	(2.86 runs per over)

To bat S Badrinath, MS Dhoni*†, WP Saha, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, A Mishra, I Sharma

Fall of wickets1-1 (Gambhir, 1.2 ov), 2-24 (Sehwag, 4.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DW Steyn	4	0	14	1	3.50
4.4 to Sehwag, 137.2 kph, The big fish has been caught! Dale Steyn take a bow. It was full, it was outside off stump, it invited a big drive from Sehwag who obliges but the ball shaped away late to fly off the edge straight into the big palms of Smith at first slip. South Africa erupt in joy. What a day they have had. What a day Steyn has had. It has been a treat to watch him bowl a rasping spell of fast swing bowling. 24/2
M Morkel	6	2	21	1	3.50	(1w)
1.2 to Gambhir, 145.2 kph, Stunning! Gotcha! The off stump has been pegged back. That round-the-stumps angle has worked again. This one comes back in from outside off, Gambhir, who out pushing at a delivery earlier in the day, chooses to shoulder arms. Mistake. Big mistake. Crash. The ball kept coming in to give a fatal kiss to the off stump. What a start for SA. 1/1
WD Parnell	2	0	12	0	6.00

PL Harris	7	3	12	0	1.71

JH Kallis	4	2	5	0	1.25

Match details

Toss South Africa, who chose to bat

Test debuts S Badrinath and WP Saha (India)
Player of the match tba

Umpires SJ Davis (Australia) and IJ Gould (England)
TV umpire AM Saheba
Match referee AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe)
Reserve umpire S Rao

297 Responses to South Africa vs India in Nagpur – Day 3

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Tripples on 8 February 2010 at 1:06 pm

Hi Treehugger,

Thankfully I am sitting in an airconditioned office otherwise I wouldn’t make it, what with all the hotflushing that is carrying on 🙂
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Irish Devil on 8 February 2010 at 1:07 pm

Snoek@206 – it is a dying language – we all speak English now and our mother tongue is slowly dying, as most youngsters don’t want to learn the language as it is only spoken here. They feel it is a waste of time. 🙁
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Irish Devil on 8 February 2010 at 1:07 pm

GBS@204 – LOL
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Snoek on 8 February 2010 at 1:07 pm

Well, even if i could have more than on wife, why would i want to take that option?

Nope, to much trouble.
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Tripples on 8 February 2010 at 1:08 pm

My point exactly, Why would you want to punish yourself with another husband/wife…….cant think of anything worse
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Treehugger on 8 February 2010 at 1:08 pm

Snoek – hub learnt his afrikaans in the army, said he had a little corporal that used to stand on a bucket and go faceto face with the guys and scream at them lol.
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Treehugger on 8 February 2010 at 1:09 pm

Tripples hahahahahahahaha
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Tripples on 8 February 2010 at 1:10 pm

212 that is what is starting to happen over here with Afrikaans, it is very sad
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Irish Devil on 8 February 2010 at 1:11 pm

Snoek/Trips – my dad always said one wife is more than enough – imagine the credit card account! LOL.

He said he asked my mum for the marriage certificate the other day and she said why on earth do you want it. He said I want to see the expiry date. 😆
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grootblousmile on 8 February 2010 at 1:12 pm

218@ Tripps – Noooooooooooooooo, over my dead body!

In fact, Afrikaans has been having a revival and a bloom period of note since 1994…
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Snoek on 8 February 2010 at 1:12 pm

212 – Irish

It is a shame. I see the same thing happening with the SA indians, almost no one can speak hindi anymore. They lose out on a cultural thing that way.
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grootblousmile on 8 February 2010 at 1:15 pm

OK, seeing as my rather big downloads for 2 computers are just finished, let me go work seriously for a while… could do nothing waiting for them….
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Snoek on 8 February 2010 at 1:15 pm

Stem nie saam nie trips, praat nog lekker afrikaans elke dag.
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Tripples on 8 February 2010 at 1:15 pm

#219 🙂
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Tripples on 8 February 2010 at 1:17 pm

223 ek weet snoekie, maar daar is so baie van ons jeug wat dit nie meer wil praat nie want dit is ‘zef’ en buitendien is hulle besig om Afrikaans uit al die skole te haal en al die Afrikaanse skole te verengels. dis nog in die vroee stadium maar die bal het begin rol
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Puma on 8 February 2010 at 1:17 pm

India 61/2

Please take Tendulkar. He could cause prolems. Very good batsman.
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Tripples on 8 February 2010 at 1:18 pm

dan weer aan die ander kant is die afrikaners besig om al hoe nader aan mekaar te kom en saam te staan so ek hoop net dat dit positief sal bly
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Snoek on 8 February 2010 at 1:19 pm

Snoekie 😆
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Puma on 8 February 2010 at 1:19 pm

221 – Snoek, You right, think all the Indian South Africans speak English now.
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bdb on 8 February 2010 at 1:20 pm

218/223: Ek praat Afrikaans in Afrika !
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Irish Devil on 8 February 2010 at 1:20 pm

Snoek@221 – it is a shame. Cultures are slowly becoming an international brand – television is so Yankinised that most of the Irish youth are caught in that world.
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Puma on 8 February 2010 at 1:21 pm

219 – Irish 😆 The credit card bill would be unthinkable…. 😀

When I worked in Saudi there too some Saudi’s have 4 wifes.

Just for us Westerners is hard to imagine that. Must cost a huge load of cash for sure.
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bdb on 8 February 2010 at 1:23 pm

Tripples, wat hartseer is, is dat baie Afrikaners hul eie taal en kultuur doodmaak.

Deesdae noem ouers nie meer hul kinders na hul oupas, oumas, pa en ma’s nie, maar na Brad the Pitts, en Britney Steers !

Ek wil braak as ek hoor van
Brad van der Merwe en
Britney du Plessis

Eish !
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Puma on 8 February 2010 at 1:23 pm

231 – Irish, When I lived in Holland I noticed even then when the Dutch spoke English it was with a bit of a American accent. So daft as the States is far from Holland. All got to do with tv mate.
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Tripples on 8 February 2010 at 1:23 pm

bye guys gotta go….talk tomorrow again
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Irish Devil on 8 February 2010 at 1:24 pm

Bye TripE
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Puma on 8 February 2010 at 1:25 pm

233 – BdB, It does sound funny boet. Brad Van der Merwe…hehehe.
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Irish Devil on 8 February 2010 at 1:25 pm

Well we have a distinct accent and many here try to emulate the American accent.
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Puma on 8 February 2010 at 1:25 pm

235 – Cheers Tripps
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Puma on 8 February 2010 at 1:27 pm

238 – Irish, It is so silly even here we have ads on tv and with a American accent. So stupid to hear it in South Africa of all places. Plenty of our ads are like that. Why? Crazy.

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