Indian women's cricket team in South Africa in 2001–02

Indian women's cricket team in South Africa in 2001–02
		South Africa		India
Dates		7 March 2002 – 22 March 2002
Captains		Cindy Eksteen		Anjum Chopra
Test series
Result		India won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs		Sunnette Viljoen (88)		Anjum Chopra (82)
Most wickets		Cri-Zelda Brits (2) Cindy Eksteen (2)		Neetu David (4) Jhulan Goswami (4)
One Day International series
Result		South Africa won the 4-match series 2–1
Most runs		Kerri Laing (133)		Mithali Raj (103)
Most wickets		Cri-Zelda Brits (5) Sune van Zyl (5)		Deepa Marathe (5)

The India women's national cricket team toured South Africa in 2001–02, playing one Test match and four women's One Day Internationals.^[1] South Africa won the ODI series by 2–1 and India won the only Test match played between the sides.

One Day International series

1st ODI

7 March 2002 Scorecard

South Africa  176/3 (46 overs)	v	India 9/0 (4 overs)
Kerri Laing 91* (145) Anjum Chopra 2/32 (10 overs)		Anju Jain 5* (16)

No result Lenasia Stadium, Johannesburg Umpires: Lourens Engelbrecht and J Hampton

• India Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain delayed the start of the match and reduced to 46 overs per side.
• Match was abandoned after 4 overs of the second innings due to rain.
• Bindeshwari Goyal (Ind); Josephine Barnard and Cri-zelda Brits (SA) made their ODI debut.

2nd ODI

10 March 2002 Scorecard

India  158/9 (50 overs)	v	South Africa 123/4 (32.5 overs)
Mithali Raj 61 (101) Sune van Zyl 4/23 (10 overs)		Daleen Terblanche 26 (41) Sunita Singh 1/21 (8 overs)

South Africa won by 29 runs (D/L) North West Cricket Stadium, Potchefstroom Umpires: Roderick Ellis and Johannes Horn

• India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rain reduced South Africa innings to 48 overs.
• Rain stopped play at 32.5 overs of the South Africa innings, the D/L par score for South Africa at 33 overs was 94 runs.

3rd ODI

13 March 2002 Scorecard

India  111/3 (30 overs)	v	South Africa 137/7 (29.5 overs)
Anjum Chopra 41* (82) Sune van Zyl 1/14 (6 overs)		Cindy Eksteen 36 (40) Neetu David 2/17 (6 overs)

South Africa won by 3 wickets (D/L) Centurion Park, Centurion Umpires: B Goldwin and L van Zyl

• South Africa Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain delayed the start of the match and caused multiple play interruptions:
  At 12.5 overs of the first innings (India 41/2), match was reduced to 42 overs per side.
  At 20 overs of the first innings (India 66/2), match was reduced to 32 overs per side.
  At 23.3 overs of the first innings (India 87/2), match was reduced to 30 overs per side.
• South Africa was given a 137 runs target from 30 overs.

4th ODI

16 March 2002 Scorecard

India  160/6 (50 overs)	v	South Africa 123 (46.5 overs)
Anjum Chopra 36 (87) Cri-Zelda Brits 2/30 (10 overs)		Josephine Barnard 32 (89) Deepa Marathe 4/28 (10 overs)

India won by 37 runs Green Point Stadium, Cape Town Umpires: L Forbes and Russell Mackintosh

• South Africa Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Madelein Lotter and Tamara Reeves (SA) made their ODI debut.

Test series

Only Test

19–22 March 2002 Scorecard

India	v	South Africa
404/9d (168 overs) Anjum Chopra 80 (254) Cindy Eksteen 2/64 (38 overs)		150 (83.3 overs) Josephine Barnard 31 (179) Deepa Marathe 3/14 (12.3 overs)
13/0 (1.3 overs) Mithali Raj 9* (4)		266 (f/o) (142.2 overs) Alison Hodgkinson 77 (227) Hemlata Kala 3/18 (8.2 overs)

India won by 10 wickets Boland Bank Park, Paarl Umpires: Mark Jamieson and Jacobus van Tonder

• India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Jaya Sharma and Sunita Singh (Ind); Josephine Barnard, Cri-zelda Brits, Cindy Eksteen, Alison Hodgkinson, Kerri Laing, Madelein Lotter, Denise Reid, Daleen Terblanche, Yulandi van der Merwe, Sune van Zyl and Sunette Viljoen (SA) made their Test debut.

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