West Indian cricket team in South Africa in 2007β08 | |||
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West Indies | South Africa | ||
Dates | 14 December 2007 β 3 February 2008 | ||
Captains | Chris Gayle | Graeme Smith | |
Test series | |||
Result | South Africa won the 3-match series 2β1 | ||
Most runs | Marlon Samuels 314 | Graeme Smith 299 | |
Most wickets | Dwayne Bravo 10 | Dale Steyn 20 | |
Player of the series | Dale Steyn (SA) | ||
One Day International series | |||
Results | South Africa won the 5-match series 5β0 | ||
Most runs | Shivnarine Chanderpaul 150 |
Jean-Paul Duminy 227 Jacques Kallis 227 | |
Most wickets | Daren Powell 5 |
MornΓ© Morkel 7 Charl Langeveldt 7 | |
Player of the series | JP Duminy and Shaun Pollock (both SA) | ||
Twenty20 International series | |||
Results | 2-match series drawn 1β1 | ||
Most runs | Runako Morton 32 | Shaun Pollock 38 | |
Most wickets | Jerome Taylor 5 | Dale Steyn 4 |
The West Indies cricket team began touring South Africa on 14 December 2007. The two teams played three Test matches, five One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals before the end of the tour on 3 February 2008.
Prior to the series, West Indies had never registered a Test victory in South Africa and lost the previous series 2β0, in 2003/4 and lost the last two meetings between the two sides, in the ICC World Twenty20, where South Africa won by 3 wickets, and in the World Cup in the West Indies, where the South Africans emerged victorious by 67 runs.
The West Indies warmed up for the series with a 3β1 one-day international series victory over Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe although their preparations were hampered by a hamstring injury to acting captain Chris Gayle. South Africa beat New Zealand in Test and One Day International series while also winning the one-off Twenty20 International.
West Indian captain Ramnaresh Sarwan missed the tour through injury, meaning Gayle was captain in his absence, however thumb and hamstring injuries to Gayle left Dwayne Bravo as captain for both Twenty20 Internationals and the entire ODI series. South Africa named the same Test squad that beat both New Zealand, and Pakistan, although Neil McKenzie was added to the squad ahead of the second Test and Monde Zondeki was added ahead of the third Test.
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39/0 (9 overs)
MornΓ© van Wyk 23* (33) |