South African cricket team in India in 2004–05

South Africa cricket team in India in 2004/05

	India	South Africa
Dates	14 November – 2 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] Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag scored 262 run in two test and becomes player of the series. Harbhajan Singh took highest number of wicket 13.

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 – 2 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]

No	Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	Balls Faced
1	Virender Sehwag	2	3	262	164	87.33	71.98	364
2	Jacques Kallis	2	4	241	121	80.33	41.76	577
3	Andrew Hall	2	4	217	163	54.25	37.22	583
4	Rahul Dravid	2	3	181	80	90.50	34.15	530
5	Graeme Smith	2	4	155	71	38.75	53.08	292

Bowling

Most wickets^[6]

No	Player	Matches	Wickets	Runs	BBI	BBM	Econ
1	Harbhajan Singh	2	13	307	7/87	9/141	2.73
2	Anil Kumble	2	10	341	6/131	6/183	2.44
3	Makhaya Ntini	2	8	258	4/112	5/123	2.96
4	Andrew Hall	2	4	163	3/93	3/93	2.92
5	Shaun Pollock	2	4	223	2/100	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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Pakistan	1952–53 1960–61 1979–80 1983–84 1986–87 1998–99 2004–05 2007–08 2012–13
South Africa	1991–92 1996–97 1999–2000 2004–05 2005–06 2007–08 2009–10 2015–16 2019–20 2022 2022–23
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Zimbabwe	1992–93 2000–01 2001–02

Tournaments hosted
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Men's T20 World Cup	2016 2021
Champions Trophy	2006
Asia Cup	1990–91
Multiple teams	1989 1993 1994–95 1996–97 1997 1997–98 1997–98 1998–99 2003–04

Other tours
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Kenyan	1999–00 2011–12
Multi-national	1930–31 1949–50 1950–51 1953–54 1961–62 1964–65 1967–68
Tanzanian	2006–07

v t e 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 Australia women in India
January 2005	VB Series Zimbabwe in Bangladesh
February 2005	Australia in New Zealand Zimbabwe in South Africa
March 2005	South Africa in West Indies Pakistan in India Women's World Cup Final
April 2005	Sri Lanka in New Zealand West Indies women in South Africa
Following season: International cricket in 2005