India Beat South Africa in 7th 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 7th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India on 5^th 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 bowl first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 7th 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 7th 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

South Africa batted well and was able to post total of 280 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of Ab de Villiers who made 85 runs in 70 balls with 5 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 121 runs in 100 balls and Loots B who made 40 runs in 20 balls with 1 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 281 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

India batted well and was able to chase the target of 281 runs in 44.1 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and won the game by 4 wickets in hand with top contributions from Sachin T who made 90 runs in 80 balls with 12 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 113 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 4 wickets in hand and series ends at 5-2 in favor of India.

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