South African cricket team in India in 2004–05

South Africa cricket team in India in 2004/05

	India	South Africa
Dates	14 November – 02 December 2004
Captains	Sourav Ganguly	Graeme Smith
Test series
Result	India won the 2-match series 1–0
Most runs	Virender Sehwag (262)	Jacques Kallis (241)
Most wickets	Harbhajan Singh (13)	Makhaya Ntini (8)
Player of the series	Virender Sehwag (Ind)

The South Africa national cricket team visited India in 2004 for a 2-match test series.^[1] India won the test series with 1-0.^[2]

Squads

Tests
India^[3]	South Africa^[4]
Sourav Ganguly (c) Gautam Gambhir Virender Sehwag Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar VVS Laxman Mohammad Kaif Dinesh Karthik (wk) Anil Kumble Harbhajan Singh Murali Kartik Zaheer Khan Irfan Pathan Ashish Nehra	Graeme Smith (c) Hashim Amla Zander de Bruyn Boeta Dippenaar Andrew Hall Jacques Kallis Makhaya Ntini Justin Ontong Robin Peterson Shaun Pollock Jacques Rudolph Thami Tsolekile (wk) Alfonso Thomas Martin van Jaarsveld

Tests

1st Test

20–24 November
(scorecard)

South Africa	v	India
510/9 dec (190.4 overs) Andrew Hall 163 (454) Anil Kumble 6/131 (54 overs)		466 (134.4 overs) Virender Sehwag 164 (228) Makhaya Ntini 3/135 (39 overs)
169/4 (64 overs) Andrew Hall 47 (100) Murali Kartik 2/17 (14 overs)

Match Drawn
Green Park, Kanpur
Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus), Simon Taufel (Aus) & Arani Jayaprakash(Ind)
Player of the match: Andrew Hall (SA)

South Africa won the toss and elected to bat
Test Debuts: Zander de Bruyn & Thami Tsolekile (SA)

2nd Test

28 November – 02 December
(scorecard)

South Africa	v	India
305 (121.3 overs) Jacques Kallis 121 (259) Irfan Pathan 3/72 (31 overs)		411 (150.1 overs) Virender Sehwag 88 (118) Makhaya Ntini 4/112 (44 overs)
222 (74.4 overs) Graeme Smith 71 (124) Harbhajan Singh 7/87 (30 overs)		120/2 (39.4 overs) Rahul Dravid 47 (104) Makhaya Ntini 1/11 (4 overs)

India won by 8 wickets
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus), Simon Taufel (Aus) & Ivaturi Shivram (Ind)
Player of the match: Harbhajan Singh (Ind)

South Africa won the toss and elected to bat
Test Debuts: Hashim Amla (SA)

Statistics

Batting

Most runs^[5]

Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	HS	Avg	Balls Faced
Virender Sehwag	2	3	262	164	87.33	364
Jacques Kallis	2	4	241	121	80.33	577
Andrew Hall	2	4	217	163	54.25	583
Rahul Dravid	2	3	181	80	90.50	530
Graeme Smith	2	4	155	71	38.75	292

Bowling

Most wickets^[6]

Player	Matches	Wickets	Runs	BBI	BBM	Econ
Harbhajan Singh	2	13	307	7913 !7/87	9859 !9/141	2.73
Anil Kumble	2	10	341	6869 !6/131	6817 !6/183	2.44
Makhaya Ntini	2	8	258	4888 !4/112	5877 !5/123	2.96
Andrew Hall	2	4	163	3907 !3/93	3907 !3/93	2.92
Shaun Pollock	2	4	223	2900 !2/100	2900 !2/100	2.47

References

↑ Tournament Fixtures
↑ Result Summary
↑ Indian Test Squad
↑ South African Test Squad
↑ "Most runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
↑ "Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 November 2013.

International cricket tours of India

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International cricket in 2004–05

Preceding season: International cricket in 2004

September 2004	Paktel Cup

October 2004	Australia in India New Zealand in Bangladesh Sri Lanka in Pakistan

November 2004	New Zealand in Australia (Chappell–Hadlee Trophy) South Africa in India England in Zimbabwe

December 2004	India in Bangladesh Pakistan in Australia England in South Africa

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Following season: International cricket in 2005

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