Tour of UAE to play Pakistan 2010-11     Captain: 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.

Other South African tours

Previous Tour

West Indies 2009-10

Next tour

New Zealand 2011-12

Next tour to Pakistan

 None scheduled

Members of the Test tour party (14)

Opening batsmen:  Graeme Smith, Alviro Petersen

Middle-order batsmen  Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, A B de Villiers, John Paul Duminy, Ashwell Prince.

Wicket-keeper  Mark Boucher

Slow bowlers  Johan Botha, Paul Harris.

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

Representation of Supersport Series teams:   

CC(Bo, WP) - Cape Cobras (3)

D  (KZN) - Dolphins (1)

K  (FS, GW) - Knights (0)

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

T(Es, No) - Titans (3)

W(EP, Br) - Warriors (6)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(12 November 2010 ):

      28 yrs  5 months.

ODI - member of squad for one-day internationals

T20 - member of squad for Twenty20 internationals

Test Appearances made before the tour

Kallis 140,  Boucher 134,  Smith 86,  de Villiers 61,  Prince 57,  Amla 46,  Steyn 41,  Harris 32,  Morkel 26,  Duminy 12,  Petersen 4,  Botha 3,  Tsotsobe 2,  Parnell 3.

Team Officials

This was Goolam Rajah’s final tour and he finished his duties with Cricket SA on 21 November 2011.

http://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/two-decades-of-dedication-1.1187915

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.

Fixtures/Results

† not first-class

§  one-day international

⊕ Twenty 20 international

Time spent in UAE before First Test: 

19 days

(24 October - 12 November)

Test appearances on tour

2  -  Amla,  Botha,  Boucher,  de Villiers,  Harris,  Kallis,  Morkel,  Petersen,  Prince,  Smith,  Steyn.

0  -  Duminy,  Parnell,  Tsotsobe.

Highlights

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•    A B de Villiers scored 278*, South Africa’s highest individual score in a Test match.  

Tour Summary

Return to South Africa

25 November 2010.

Time away from South Africa    x days  

(24 October to arrive home in S AfI)

Finances