India vs South Africa : A brief cricketing history

India and South Africa, two cricketing giants, whenever they’ve clashed history has been made. From Sachin’s 200* in Gwalior to Donald’s fiery spell in Kolkata back in 1992, these two teams have shared some beautiful cricketing moments. Now in 2018, Virat Kohli’s men have some uphill task in Proteas’ backyard. We all are looking forward to the series but before that let’s have a look at the history between these two most successful teams of cricket.

The first ODI between these two teams was played back in 1991 at the Eden Garden which India won by 3 wickets. From then on they’ve played 77 ODIs, 34 Test matches and 10 T20s together.

	Test					ODIs				T20s
Teams	Mat	won	lost	draw	mat		won	lost	NR		mat	Won	Lost	draw
IND	34	10	13	10	77		29	45	3		10	6	4	0
SA	34	13	10	10	77		45	29	3		10	4	6	0

Cricket fans see the greatest of players playing to whenever these two teams collide together. There has been a lot runs made by the best among the bests.

Name	Mat (test)	Runs	HS	Avg
SR Tendulkar	25	1741	169	42.46
J Kallis	18	1734	201*	69.36
H Amla	19*	1328	253*	44.26

Name	Mat (ODI)	Runs	HS	Avg
SR Tendulkar	57	2001	200*	35.73
J Kallis	37	1535	119*	61.40
G Kirsten	26	1377	133*	62.59

We’ve also seen some greatest bowling performances.

Name	Match (Test)	Wickets	BBM	Avg
A Kumble	21	84	8/113	31.79
J Srinath	13	64	8/68	24.83
D Steyn	14*	63	10/108	21.41
Name	Match (ODI)	Wickets	BBM	Avg
S Pollock	33	48	5/37	24.47
A Donald	26	46	5/29	21.15
A Kumble	40	46	4/25	32.00

When it comes to behind the stumps Mark Boucher has the record of most dismissals in both Test(60) and ODIs(42).

The encounter between these two has always been close. But as per as the largest victory in Test is concerned India won the Delhi test in 2015 by 337 runs whereas South Africa has won in Durban by 10 wickets. In ODIs, South Africa has won a Mumbai ODI by 214 runs where the target was 439 back in 2015.

J Kallis has the record of most hundreds in test matches with 7 hundred's in his pockets, in ODIs, AB de Villiers is record holder with 6 hundred's to date.

The most memorable moment was probably 24th Feb 2010 Gwalior ODI when Sachin Tendulkar made the first ever double hundred in ODIs. He was not out on 200* and it took him 147 balls to make with 25 4s and 3 6s.