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India has levelled the series 1-1 after winning the 2nd test match against home team South Africa. India successfully defended the set target of 303 runs.

VVS Laxman was declared man of the match who scored 96 in the second innings and was the highest scorer for Indian side in both the innings.

India scored 205 and 228 runs while South Africa succumbed to chase the target and only made 131 and 215 runs in the 2nd innings.

From Indian side, Sreesanth and Zaheer Khan took 3 wickets followed by Bhajji who claimed two wickets. One wicket by Ishant and the final wicket of Tsotsobe – a runout by Pujara.

The first and deciding wicket of 4th day was taken by Sreesanth in form of Kallis on one of the superb delivery in this test series.

After Centurion it will be next in Durban and its more expected to be volcanic than previous one. Yes Ind will meet SA in 2nd test match from 26th December onwards.

So will the boxing day match will be fruitful for India or whether again will be a trend follower. Watch out the action tomorrow from the field.

But the bad news that could really affect Indian side is the fitness of Gautam Gambhir, who is owing to an injury in the knuckles of his left hand.

But the better part is that, Zaheer Khan will be back and expecting he will be back with a bang. Pujara seems to replace Raina ( But not certain).

Here is the Indian lineup that could play India SOuth Africa 2nd test match tomorrow – Gautam Gambhir,Virender Sehwag,Rahul Dravid,Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Cheteshwar Pujara / Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth

Master blaster – Legend of the cricket Sachin Tendulkar has created history by making the first ever 50 test century ever in Cricket World.

In 1st Test at Centurion in South AFrica 4th day, December 19, 2010 against home team – a landmark was created by Sachin Tendulkar.

Sachin scored 100 runs off 197 balls which included 12 fours and one six. He is the first person from India and world also to create such achievement.

Team was down to six wickets at 206 runs when Sachin and Dhoni came on ground and made a good partnership on the field which followed this landmark.

We wish Tendulkar for this great success and hope that he achieves some more milestones in his career.

After the clean sweep of New Zealand, India is high on spirits and ready to take another challenge from mighty South Africans.

India tomorrow will be playing first test match against South Africa at centurion from 10:30 AM local time. India South Africa 2nd test will begin from 26th at Durban.

But one of the key player of India Zaheer Khan will be missing the match who is at present owing to hamstring injury. So its almost confirm that he will not play the match.

And as from sources, hamstring injury of Zaheer Khan could mean a debut for new players on the side Umesh Yadav or Jaidev Unadkat.

So lets take to the field in few hours when the first Test match of India and South Africa commences.

The fifth and final one day international match between home team India and New Zealand has been scheduled for today.

Till now, all four matches has been bagged by India and kiwis have not even tasted the victory till the last game.

Looking upon their performance in the 4th ODI where more than sic hundred runs were scored, one can expect a good clash here.

At 4th ODI, finally New Zealand started showing their sign of revival in one day matches. They made quite a decent score of more than 300 runs, but couldn’t defend it.

The most probable teams of Ind vs NZ match will be –

New Zealand : Brendon McCullum (wk), Martin Guptill, Jamie How, Ross Taylor, Scott Styris, James Franklin, Daniel Vettori (cap), Nathan McCullum, Tim Southee, Kyle Mills and Andy McKay

India : Parthiv Patel (wk), Gautam Gambhir (cap), Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Saurabh Tiwary, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, and Ashish Nehra