Tour of India 2009-10             Captain: Graeme Smith

46th official Test tour

Fifth Test-playing tour of India by South Africa

(February-December 2010)

Micky Arthur resigned as coach just days before the Indian tour, partly because he wanted to be in charge of appointing his support staff, and Cricket South Africa sacked Mike Procter's entire selection committee.  Vinnie Barnes was approached before Van Zyl to oversee to be interim coach on the tour but turned down the offer, and resigned as assistant coach ; he took a new post in Sri Lanka.

Jacques Kallis captained South Africa in the ODIs as Graeme Smith broke a finger and had to return home.

Other South African tours

Previous Tour

Australia 2008-09

Next tour

West Indies 2009-10

Next tour of India

None scheduled

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen : Graeme Smith, Alviro Petersen.

Middle-order batsmen AB de Villiers, Jacques Kallis, J P Duminy, Hashim Amla, Ashwell Prince.

Spinners : Johan Botha, Paul Harris

Wicket-keeper: Mark Boucher.

Fast bowlers: Morne Morkel, Ryan McLaren, Wayne Parnell, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe.

Representation of Supersport Series teams:   

CC(Bo, WP) - Cape Cobras (2)

D  (KZN) - Dolphins (1)

E  (FS, GW) - Eagles (1)

HL(G, NW) - Highveld Lions (1)

T(Es, No) - Titans (4)

W(EP, Br) - Warriors (6)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(6 February 2010) :

 28 years  0 months.

Test Appearances made before the tour

Kallis 135,  Boucher 130,  Smith 81,  de Villiers 56,  Prince 52,  Amla 41,  Steyn 36,  Harris 27,  M Morkel 21,  Duminy 10,  Botha 2,  Parnell 1,  McLaren  1, Tsotsobe 0,  Petersen 0.  

Team Officials

Selectors

The selection panel - Mike Procter (convenor), Mustapha Khan, Craig Matthews, Winky Ximiya -  was dismissed just before their selected tour party left for India.

An interim selection committee, replacing the one led by Procter, comprised Gerald Majola (CSA chief executive), Corrie van Zyl (coach) and former captain Kepler Wessels.

Selection

Unavailable:  .

Tour Party Announced :  18 January 2010.

Not selected :  Makhaya Ntini and Friedel de Wet.

Time between selection and departure from South Africa

  12 days

(18 January to 30 January)

Travel

Departure from Johannesburg was on morning of Saturday 30 January   The team arrived in Mumbai at 00:25 in the morning after a 9-hour flight, spending a few hours at the airport hotel before flying out to Nagpur just after 7 am.

Time spent in India

   28 days

(31 January - 28 February)

On-tour selection panel

Gerald Majola (chief executive and acting convener), Corrie van Zyl (coach),  Graeme Smith (captain), Kepler Wessels (on-tour selector and batting coach)

Reinforcements

Charl Langeveldt was added to the one-day squad on 7 February to give the bowling attack more experience.

When Graeme Smith withdrew with a broken finger, Hashim Amla from the Test squad was asked to remain in India and Jacques Kallis stood in as captain in the limited-overs series.

Fixtures/Results

† not first-class

§  one-day international

Time spent in India before First Test:   7 days

(31 January- 6 February)

Test appearances on tour

2 -   Amla,  de Villiers,  Duminy,  Harris,  Kallis,  Morkel,  Parnell,  Prince,  Smith,  Steyn.

1 -   Boucher,  AN Petersen.

0 -   Botha,  McLaren,  Tsotsobe.

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Tour Summary

Return to South Africa

Graeme Smith returned to South Africa for medical treatment on 18 February after the Kolkata Test, as did the Test specialists, Harris, McLaren and Prince.

J P Duminy returned home on night of 26 February after the second ODI in which he sustained a hand injury.

Last match 27 February

Time away from South Africa    x days  

(30 January to arrive home in S AfI)