Test Cricket Tours - India to South Africa 2006-07

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Test Cricket Tours - India to South Africa 2006-07

Tour of South Africa 2006-07 Captain: Rahul Dravid

India's 56th Test tour

Fourth Test-playing tour of South Africa by India

(November 2006 -

January 2007)

Other Indian tours

Previous tour

West Indies 2005-06

Next tour

Bangladesh 2006-07

Next South African tour

2010-11

Members of the Test tour party (16)

Opening batsmen: Gautam Gambhir, Viru Sehwag, Wasim Jaffer

Middle-order batsmen: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, V V S Laxman, Sourav Ganguly

Wicket-keepers: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh Kharthik

Spinners: Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble,

Fast bowlers: Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan

M S Dhoni

R S Dravid			RHB captain

G Gambhir

S C Ganguly

Harbhajan Singh

K D Karthik

A Kumble			LBG vice-captain

V V S Laxman

M M Patel

I K Pathan

V Sehwag

V R Singh

S Sreesanth

S R Tendulkar

Wasim Jaffer

Zaheer Khan

Representation of teams:

Ba - Baroda

Bn - Bengal

D - Delhi

Gj - Gujarat

H - Hyderabad

Hy - Haryana

K - Karnataka

Ke - Kerala

Mb - Mumbai

Pj - Punjab

TN - Tamil Nadu

UP - Uttar Pradesh

Average age of team at time of first Test match

(15 December 2006) : 27 yrs 9 months

Test Appearances made before the tour

Team Officials

Prakash Dixit	Manager
Greg Chappell	Coach
Gregory King	Fitness Trainer
John Gloster	Physiotherapist
Ian Fraser	Biomechanical expert
Ramesh Mane	Masseur
Rajan Nair	Media Manager
S Ramakrishnan	Computer analyst

Selectors

Chairman Dilip Vengsarkar, who was due to travel to South Africa to be with the Indian team in the Tests, met with Venkatapathy Raju, Bhupinder Singh Sr, Sanjay Jagdale and Ranjib Biswal, to pick the squad of 16. Niranjan Shah, the BCCI secretary, was present as convener of the meeting.

Selection

One-day squad
ADDED Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Mongia, Yuvraj Singh (Dinesh Karthik wk on stand by), Ajit Agarkar (VRV Singh on stand by).

One-day party announced 30 October 2006

Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Wasim Jaffer, Mohd. Kaif, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Mongia, Munaf Patel, S .Sreesanth, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, M. S. Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Ajit Agarkar, Dinesh Kaarthick.

Unavailable Yuvraj Singh unfit (knee ligament injury) so D Karthik was chosen. Agarkar passed a fitness test (VRV Singh was in reserve).

Test team chosen 30 November in Delhi.

Travel

Flew from Mumbai on Monday night 13 November 2006 and arrived at Johannesburg Airport the next day

On-tour selection committee

Dilip Vengsarkar (chief selector),

Reinforcements

Munaf Patel hurt his ankle early on the tour and sat out of three ODIs and the first two Tests. The team management and chief selector D.B.Vengsarkar already in South Africa asked the BCCI to send Delhi fast bowler Ishant Sharma to South Africa but, as Sharma was readying himself to leave, the decision was reversed.

Fixtures/Results

Benoni	South Africa 'A'
§ Johannesburg	South Africa 1st ODI
§ Kingsmead, Durban	South Africa 2nd ODI
§ Newlands Cape Town	South Africa 3rd ODI
§ Port Elizabeth	South Africa 4th ODI
Johannesburg	South Africa Twenty20
§ Centurion	South Africa 5th ODI
Potchefstroom	South Africa 'A
JOHANNESBURG	SOUTH AFRICA First Test
DURBAN	SOUTH AFRICA Second Test
CAPE TOWN	SOUTH AFRICA Third Test

† not first-class

Test appearances on tour

Highlights

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Tour Summary

	P	W	L	D	T	Aban
Test Matches	2	0	2	0	-	-
Other first-class matches	1	0	0	1	-	-
Minor matches	1	0	1	0	-	-
One-day internationals	7	2	5	0	-	-
All Matches	11	2	8	1	1	-

Return to India

Taking a South African Airways flight from Johannesburg on 7 January, the team landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport in Mumbai at 12.30 in the early hours of Monday 8 January 2007. Rahul Dravid had to wait for his mislaid baggage while the coach and team went to the Hyatt hotel.

Chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar arrived back from South Africa one day after than the team.

Finances