South African national cricket team in India in the 1999/2000 season

The tour of the South African national cricket team to Sri Lanka in the 1999/2000 season took place from February 24 to March 19, 2000. The international cricket tour was part of the 1999/2000 international cricket season and included two tests and five ODIs . South Africa won the test series 2–0, while India won the ODI series 3–2.

prehistory

India previously played a tour in Australia , South Africa previously took part in a tournament in South Africa . Before the first test, Indian team captain Sachin Tendulkar announced that he would resign after the tests. His successor as the ODI captain was taken over by Saurav Ganguly .

Stages

Bangalore Faridabad Hyderabad Jamshedpur Kochi Mumbai (BS) Nagpur Vadodara

Tour venues

The following stages have been designated as the venue for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bangalore	42,000	2nd test
Nahar Singh Stadium	Faridabad	25,000	3. ODI
Keenan Stadium	Jamshedpur	19,000	2. ODI
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Kochi	75,000	1. ODI
Brabourne Stadium	Mumbai	25,000	1st test
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	Nagpur	45,000	5. ODI
IPCL Sports Complex Ground	Vadodara	20,000	4. ODI

Squad lists

South Africa named its test squad on February 7th and its ODI squad on February 14, 2000. India named its test squad on February 20, 2000.

test		ODI
India	South Africa	India	South Africa
Ajit Agarkar Mohammad Azharuddin Nikhil Chopra Rahul Dravid Sourav Ganguly Ajay Jadeja Wasim Jaffer Mohammad Kaif Murli Kartik Anil Kumble VVS Laxman Nayan Mongia Javagal Srinath Sachin Tendulkar	Nicky buoy Mark Boucher Hansie Cronje Daryll Cullinan Allan Donald Clive Eksteen Herschelle Gibbs Nantie Hayward Jacques Kallis Gary Kirsten Lance Klusener Shaun Pollock Pieter Strydom	Ajit Agarkar Mohammad Azharuddin Nikhil Chopra Sameer Dighe Rahul Dravid Sourav Ganguly Ajay Jadeja Sunil Joshi Saba Karim Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran Anil Kumble Venkatesh Prasad Robin Singh Sirdharan Sriram Javagal Srinath Sachin Tendulkar	Dale Benkenstein Nicky buoy Mark Boucher Derek Crookes Hansie Cronje Steve Elworthy Herschelle Gibbs Nantie Hayward Jacques Kallis Gary Kirsten Lance Klusener Neil McKenzie Shaun Pollock Pieter Strydom Henry Williams

Tour matches

February 19-21 Scorecard	Mumbai (BS)	South Africans 293-6d (91) & 207-5d (63)	-	Indian Board President's XI 172 (53.2) & 181-8 (65)
		draw

Testing

First test in Mumbai

February 24-26 Scorecard	Mumbai (WS)	India 225 (79.2) & 113 (50.2)	-	South Africa 176 (64) & 164-6 (63)
		South Africa wins with 4 wickets

Second test in Bangalore

March 2-6 Scorecard	Bangalore	India 158 (82.3) & 250 (101)	-	South Africa 479 (191.4)
		South Africa wins with one innings and 71 runs

Sachin Tendulkar scored his 6000 run in this test and was the youngest player to reach this mark.

One-day internationals

First ODI in Kochi

March 9 scorecard	Kochi	South Africa 301-3 (50)	-	India 302-7 (50)
		India wins with 3 wickets

Second ODI in Jamshedpur

March 12 scorecard	Jamshedpur	South Africa 199 (47.2)	-	India 203-4 (47.1)
		India wins with 6 wickets

Third ODI in Faridabad

March 15 scorecard	Faridabad	India 248-8 (50)	-	South Africa 251-8 (48/49)
		South Africa wins with 2 wickets

Fourth ODI in Vadodara

March 17th Scorecard	Vadodara	South Africa 282-5 (50)	-	India 283-6 (49.5)
		India wins with 4 wickets

Fifth ODI in Nagpur

March 19 scorecard	Nagpur	South Africa 320-7 (50)	-	India 310 (48.5)
		South Africa wins with 10 runs

The fifth ODI played a central role in the betting fraud scandal involving the South African captain Hansie Cronje . In exchange for money , he encouraged the players Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams to perform poorly so that South Africa could lose the game. On April 7, 2000, the Delhi police published the allegations, which Cronje initially denied. Two days later, Cronje changed the statement and was immediately dismissed by the South African Association. In further investigations earlier cases became known in which Cronje had promised favors in exchange for money, among other things, several of his teammates confessed to having received offers of money for poor performance from Cronje before the second test in Bangalore. After several days of interrogation, Cronje fully confessed in June 2000. Gibbs and Williams were suspended for six months, and Cronje was suspended for life by the South African Association in October of that year.

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anand Vasu: Ganguly captain for one dayers, Indian team for second test ( English ) Cricinfo. February 20, 2000. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
2. ↑ Partab Ramchand: Ganguly captain for one dayers, Indian team for second test ( English ) Cricinfo. February 26, 2000. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
3. ↑ South African team for Indian tour ( English ) Cricinfo. February 7, 2000. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
4. ↑ Trevor Chesterfield: National selectors resurrect Ntini's career ( English ) Cricinfo. February 14, 2000. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
5. ↑ Azharuddin and Mongia recalled for First Test against South Africa ( English ) Cricinfo. February 20, 2000. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
6. ^ Rajneesh Gupta: Tendulkar youngest to complete 6000 test runs ( English ) Cricinfo. March 2, 2000. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
7. ↑ The Cronje chronicles ( English ) Cricinfo. July 22, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
8. ↑ AC Genesh: Tearful end to Cronje's examination ( English ) Cricinfo. June 23, 2000. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
9. ^ Peter Robinson: Six-month bans for Gibbs, Williams ( English ) Cricinfo. August 28, 2000. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
10. ↑ UCBSA Press Release: Cronje banned ( English ) Cricinfo. October 11, 2000. Retrieved July 20, 2017.