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India vs. South Africa: People were waiting for this test match as this may create new records and change the history of cricket. This test match may break many records and above all positioned India at top. Obviously if they won the match and lot more breaking records can be made. But unfortunately the beginning was not going as well as was expected for Indian team and in the first inning of the team scored 233 with the loss of its 10 wickets. On the other hand South Africa scored 558 runs in the first series at the loss of 6 wickets. The match is played at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, India. On the first day 6^th February, 2010 of the match South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first. First inning was not good for Indian cricket team. But still they are positive about their victory. They believed that in the second inning they will definitely perform well and cover the difference. But the same thing happened again with them.  On day 3, the beginning of second innings also started not so good. The opening batsman Gautam Gambhir and Virendra Sehwag went to pavilion at the score of 1 and 16 respectively. At the end of the day, India was on 66 with loss of two wickets in 23 overs.

First Inning: Performance of Indian team in first inning was not expected. Except Virendra Sehwag and S Badri no one stay on the ground for long time and fall out one by one. Gautam Gambhir as an opening batsman did not do anything for his tea and went to pavilion at the score of 12, after that Murali Vijay came and went out just at the score of 4. Sachin Tendulkar the master blaster could not help his team and caught by Dale Steyn. At that time Sachin made only seven scores. After that S Badri came and it seemed match was in control but he also caught at the score of 56 by Dale steyn. After that one by one all fell out and the entire team was in pavilion at the score of 233. Even the bowlers could not do much. No doubt in the beginning, Zaheer took two wickets earlier but they unable to knock out Hashim Amla and that was like strong pillar for the South Africa team. He was remained in the match at the end with 253 score. Bowlers tried hard but they failed to stop them to make scores and the result was at the end of the inning, South Africa was on 558 with by loosing six wickets. Now it’s a great target for Indian team to cover this huge difference and not only this, but also made such a huge score to beat South Africa.
Highlights of the third day: Following are the highlights of the third day match between India and South Africa:Dale Steyn performance in the innings made him the third bowler for South Africa that bag seven wickets in an innings against India.It was Steyn’s 13th five-wicket haul in Tests is his second against India.India lost their last six wickets for 12 runs from 221 for four to 233 — their worst collapse against South Africa.Sehwag has scored 18 centuries in Test cricket — 10 at home and eight away from home.Subramaniam Badrinath and Sehwag were associated in a stand of 136 — India’s best for the fourth wicket against South Africa in India, surpassing the 96 between Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly at Kanpur in November 2004.The Nagpur Test has produced the first instance of follow-on in an India-South Africa Test.Under Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s captaincy, Sehwag has scored three hundreds in 12 Tests — 1178 (ave.58.90) in 21 innings, including six fifties.Sehwag became the second Indian batsman after Sachin Tendulkar (109 off 188 balls against Australia in 2008-09) to score a hundred at VCA Stadium, JamthaBadrinath (56 off 139 balls) has become the 21st Indian player to register a half-century in debut innings in Tests.Badrinath is the third Indian to make 50 or more in an innings in his debut innings against South Africa, joining Pravin Amre — 103 at Durban in 1992-93 and Sehwag — 105 at Bloemfontein in 2001-02.Sehwag’s 109 is his fourth century against South Africa, emulating Mohammad Azharuddin’s tally of four hundreds — the most hundreds in India-South Africa Tests.Subramaniam Badrinath and Sehwag were associated in a stand of 136 — India’s best for the fourth wicket against South Africa in India, surpassing the 96 between Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly at Kanpur in November 2004.