Series Name: | West Indian cricket team in South Africa in 2007–08 |
Team1 Name: | West Indies |
Team2 Image: | Flag of South Africa.svg |
Team2 Name: | South Africa |
From Date: | 14 December 2007 |
To Date: | 3 February 2008 |
Team1 Captain: | Chris Gayle |
Team2 Captain: | Graeme Smith |
No Of Tests: | 3 |
Team1 Tests Won: | 1 |
Team2 Tests Won: | 2 |
Team1 Tests Most Runs: | Marlon Samuels 314 |
Team2 Tests Most Runs: | Graeme Smith 299 |
Team1 Tests Most Wickets: | Dwayne Bravo 10 |
Team2 Tests Most Wickets: | Dale Steyn 20 |
Player Of Test Series: | Dale Steyn (SA) |
No Of Odis: | 5 |
Team1 Odis Won: | 0 |
Team2 Odis Won: | 5 |
Team1 Odis Most Runs: | Shivnarine Chanderpaul 150 |
Team2 Odis Most Runs: | Jean-Paul Duminy 227 Jacques Kallis 227 |
Team1 Odis Most Wickets: | Daren Powell 5 |
Team2 Odis Most Wickets: | Morné Morkel 7 Charl Langeveldt 7 |
Player Of Odi Series: | JP Duminy and Shaun Pollock (both SA) |
No Of Twenty20s: | 2 |
Team1 Twenty20s Won: | 1 |
Team2 Twenty20s Won: | 1 |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Runako Morton 32 |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Shaun Pollock 38 |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Jerome Taylor 5 |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Dale Steyn 4 |
The West Indies cricket team began touring South Africa on 14 December 2007. The two teams played three Test matches, five One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals before the end of the tour on 3 February 2008.
Prior to the series, West Indies had never registered a Test victory in South Africa and lost the previous series 2–0, in 2003/4 and lost the last two meetings between the two sides, in the ICC World Twenty20, where South Africa won by 3 wickets, and in the World Cup in the West Indies, where the South Africans emerged victorious by 67 runs.
The West Indies warmed up for the series with a 3–1 one-day international series victory over Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe although their preparations were hampered by a hamstring injury to acting captain Chris Gayle. South Africa beat New Zealand in Test and One Day International series while also winning the one-off Twenty20 International.
West Indian captain Ramnaresh Sarwan missed the tour through injury, meaning Gayle was captain in his absence, however thumb and hamstring injuries to Gayle left Dwayne Bravo as captain for both Twenty20 Internationals and the entire ODI series. South Africa named the same Test squad that beat both New Zealand, and Pakistan, although Neil McKenzie was added to the squad ahead of the second Test and Monde Zondeki was added ahead of the third Test.