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| Venue | SuperSport Park, Centurion on 3rd December 2006 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | South Africa won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | South Africa won by 9 wickets |
| Umpires | BR Doctrove, IL Howell |
| TV umpire | KH Hurter |
| Referee | BC Broad |
| Reserve Umpire | JD Cloete |
| Man of the Match | SM Pollock |
| Articles | Zaheer Khan accused of assaulting spectator |
| Tendulkar fifty boosts struggling India |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *V Sehwag | c Boucher b Pollock | 11 | 22 | 27 | 2 | - | 50.00 |
| SR Tendulkar | c de Villiers b Kemp | 55 | 97 | 134 | 8 | - | 56.70 |
| VVS Laxman | c Smith b Pollock | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| D Mongia | b Kemp | 41 | 89 | 133 | 3 | - | 46.07 |
| +MS Dhoni | c Nel b Ntini | 44 | 49 | 75 | 2 | 2 | 89.80 |
| KD Karthik | c Boucher b Nel | 11 | 15 | 19 | 2 | - | 73.33 |
| IK Pathan | b Kallis | 7 | 9 | 16 | - | - | 77.78 |
| Harbhajan Singh | c Pollock b Ntini | 1 | 5 | 7 | - | - | 20.00 |
| Z Khan | not out | 16 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 160.00 |
| A Kumble | b Ntini | 1 | 3 | 9 | - | - | 33.33 |
| S Sreesanth | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 8 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 209 minutes, 50 overs) | 200 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-18 (Sehwag, 6.5 ov), 2-18 (Laxman, 6.6 ov), 3-103 (Tendulkar, 31.4 ov), 4-127 (Mongia, 37.6 ov), 5-154 (Karthik, 42.4 ov), 6-173 (Pathan, 45.6 ov), 7-183 (Harbhajan Singh, 47.3 ov), 8-183 (Dhoni, 47.5 ov), 9-200 (Kumble, 50 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pollock | 10 | 4 | 17 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 1.70 |
| Ntini | 10 | 1 | 32 | 3 | 2 | - | 20.00 | 3.20 |
| Kallis | 10 | 1 | 56 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 5.60 |
| Nel | 10 | 1 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.40 |
| Peterson | 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.60 |
| Kemp | 5 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 1 | - | 15.00 | 4.60 |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AB de Villiers | not out | 92 | 98 | 142 | 12 | 1 | 93.88 |
| *GC Smith | c Karthik b Harbhajan Singh | 79 | 85 | 127 | 7 | 3 | 92.94 |
| SM Pollock | not out | 16 | 10 | 14 | 3 | - | 160.00 |
| HH Gibbs | did not bat | ||||||
| JH Kallis | did not bat | ||||||
| AG Prince | did not bat | ||||||
| +MV Boucher | did not bat | ||||||
| JM Kemp | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Peterson | did not bat | ||||||
| A Nel | did not bat | ||||||
| M Ntini | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 5 nb, 5 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 143 minutes, 31.2 overs) | 201 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-173 (Smith, 28.1 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Khan | 7 | 1 | 46 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.57 |
| Sreesanth | 3.2 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | 9.30 |
| Pathan | 6 | 0 | 48 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 8 | 0 | 39 | 1 | - | 3 | 48.00 | 4.88 |
| Kumble | 7 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.71 |