South Africa Beat India in 6th ODI Match in 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 6th 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 6th 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 6th 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 250 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and with top scores of S Raina who made 65 runs in 65 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls and D Karthik who made 45 runs in 45 balls with 1 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa as needed to score 251 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

South Africa batted well and was able to chase the target of 251 runs in 45.4 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and won the game by 2 wickets in hand with top contributions from Ab De Villiers who made 80 runs in 50 balls with 10 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 160 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 2 wickets in hand and series stands at 4-2 in favor of India with 1 more game to play.

Pic owned by Google.