India Beat South Africa in 5th ODI of series, 2010

South Africa was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International in India in 2010. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 2 and 4. The 5th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India on 1^st Mar 2010. India holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

India won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 5th ONE DAY international match: Mark Boucher (wk), Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis (c), Charl Langeveldt,AB de Villiers, Albie Morkel, Johan Botha, Dale Steyn, Loots Bosman, Alviro Petersen, Wayne Parnell

And India team and 11 was looking like this in this 5th ONE DAY international Match: Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (c & wk),Ashish Nehra, Suresh Raina, S Sreesanth, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar,Yusuf Pathan, Virat Kohli

India batted well and was able to post total of 290 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and with top scores of V Sehwag who made 85 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 5 six at the strike rate of 170 runs in 100 balls and D Karthik who made 35 runs in 15 balls with 1 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 233 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa as needed to score 291 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

South Africa well but was unable to chase the target of 291 runs and was able to make only 250 runs in 47.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 40 runs with top contributions from J kallis who made 65 runs in 50 balls with 10 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 130 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 40 runs and series stands at 4-1 in favor of India with 2 more games to play.

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