Test Cricket Tours - South Africa to UAE to play Pakistan 2010-11
Tour of UAE to play Pakistan 2010-11Captain: Graeme Smith
48th official Test tour
First visit to UAE to play Test cricket
Fourth away series against Pakistan
(October -
November 2010)
In
March 2010 it was agreed that Pakistan
would host the tour in Abu Dhabi and Dubai owing to security
concerns.If this was another
disappointment for fans in Pakistan,
it was good news for the thousands of South African expats working and living
in the United Arab
Emirates.
Despite
rumours that some leading South African cricketers wanted to pull out of the
tour after three Pakistani players were suspended when the News of the World exposed spot fixing,
Gerald Majola (Cricket South Africa’s Chief
Executive) insisted this was no reason to cancel the tour.
South Africa and Pakistan
played an extra Twenty20 match in Dubai to
raise funds for victims of the floods in Pakistan, believed to be the
worst in the country’s experience
The Sheik Zayed Stadium at Dubai
hosted its first Test match.
It was also Vincent Barnes’s last tour. He had been
with the team since 2003
Selectors
Andrew Hudson (convenor),Corrie Van Zyl (coach), Shafiek Abrahams (national
high performance manager) and Graeme Smith (captain).
Selection
Cricket South Africa
named a training squad on 23 July to attend a conditioning camp at the High
Performance Centre in Pretoria
between 2 and 8 August:. The following players from the camp were not
selected:
Dean Elgar (Knights), Justin Kemp (Cape Cobras), Rory
Kleinveldt (Cape Cobras), Ryan McLaren (Knights), Makhaya Ntini (Warriors), Vernon
Philander (Cape Cobras), Thami Tsolekile (Highveld Lions), Roelof van der
Merwe (Titans)
Johan Botha was appointed captain on 21 August to
lead the team for the T20 internationals after Graeme Smith announced on 18
August he was standing down. Smith would take over again for the ODIs and
Tests.
Unavailable:
Limited-overs tour parties announced : 21
September 2010
T20I:Loots Bosman, Johan Botha (captain), AB de
Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Colin Ingram, David Miller, Albie Morkel, Morne
Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Graeme Smith, Rusty Theron and Lonwabo
Tsotsobe.
ODIs: Hashim Amla, Johan Botha,
AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Charl
Langeveldt, David Miller, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin
Peterson, Graeme Smith (captain), Dale
Steyn and Lonwabo Tsotsobe.
Test tour party announced:21 September 2010
Not selected : Herschelle Gibbs,left arm spinner Roelof
van der Merwe, Ryan McLaren.
Time between selection and departure from South Africa
33 days
(21 September to 24 October)
Travel
The team left on Sunday morning 24 October 2010 and
arrived in Abu Dhabi
later in the evening. They had only one day to acclimatise before the first
match.
Time spent in United
Arab Emirates
32 days
(24 October - 25 November)
On-tour selection panel
Corrie van Zyl (coach), Graeme Smith (captain), and …
Reinforcements
The selectors added Juan ‘Rusty’ Theron to their ODI squad after he
was Man of the Match in the second T20 international.
Graeme Smith fractured a
finger when hit by a Shoaib Akhtar bouncer in the first ODI but played on to
the end of the tour.