South Africa snatched a thriller against Confident Host

At VCA stadium,Nagpur another fantastic game ended between two best teams.At the end the Proteas were the winner beating strong Indian team by 3 wickets.Earlier MSD won the toss and decided to bat at the sporty Jamtha wicket.Sachin and Sehwag were at their best and hitting the best bowling line up of the world all around the park.Tendulkar,who made his 48th ODI ton and overall 99th century during his excellent knock of 111.Sachin and Sehwag accumulated 142 runs for the 1st wicket stand in just 17.4 overs.India scored record 87 runs in the mandatory powerplay.Then Shewag draged a delivery of Faf du Plesiss on to his stumps after scoring 73 off just 66 balls.Then Gambhir join the party with Tendulkar and both made 125 runs for the 2nd wicket partnership.Tendulkar scored his century of just 92 balls.Soon he misshit Morkel and got out.India were 267 for 1 at 39.4 overs.But the real tragedy begun then.Gambhir and Promoted Pathan gave away their wickets trying to go for runs.This led the tragic collapse of Indian innings.India scored just 30 runs and lost 4 wickets in batting powerplay.India lost its 9 wickets for just 26 runs in a span of 9 overs.Steyn,who was not impressive in his first spell bowled superbly and destructed Indian innings.Steyn picked 5 for 50 from 9.4 overs.India, which once looked to reach 350 had got all out to just 296.In response the Proteas started watchfully.Smith was struggling to Indian pacers,but Amla was playing well.Zaheer got his bunny Smith in 9th over.But the cool headed Amla and experienced Kallis led the charge and made 86 runs partnership before Amla(61) was caught behind off Harbhajan.Then man-in-form AB Deviliers joined and they were playing well.Crucial run out of Kallis(69) changed the game.But then AB and JP Duminy took batting powerplay and thrashed Indian bowlers.In the final over of powerplay dangerous AB caught on the mid-wicked boundary by Kohli off Harbhajan.Deviliars made a quick 52 off 39 before getting out.India came back to game by taking quick wickets of AB,JP Duminy and Van wyk but cool headed Du Plessis batted sensibly and J Botha smashed some fine strokes before caught on a miss-hit.SA needed 13 runs off last over and this time Nehra was given the ball.Robin Peterson smashed two back to back boundaries for 10 runs.South Africa won the game with 2 balls to spare.Dale Steyn was man of the match for his excellent bowling performance.