The warm up match between South Africa and Zimbabwe was taken place in MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. South Africa once again showed their dominion over the game by winning the game by 8 wickets. Under the lead of Captain Graeme Smith they grasp the victory by showing terrific performance in both batting and bowling over Zimbabwe. The opening bats man Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith continued the partnership scoring 69 runs. Amla in his very unique style played immensely giving some great shorts and a few astonishing boundaries. He gave the first boundary on the first ball he played but unfortunately he was also the first lost wicket of South Africa on 45 Runs by R price but Smith kept a strong focus on the game. He made 41 runs and got b by G lamb. Further the game was continued by Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers scoring 49 and 12 runs respectively, not out.
Zimbabwe starts their batting with Taylor and Charles as the opening batsman but the partnership ends up scoring 49. The team could not give a better start in batting. On the other hand in bowling Zimbabwe used three spinners including Prosper Utseya.
Along with South African hard-hitting batting target their bowling gave a hard time too to Zimbabwe team. Morne morkel, one of the best South African players bowl well and became the only steamer who took wickets and impressed everyone. Dale Steyn another South African bowler showed a little unconvincing performance and Lonwabo Tsotsobe also got injured after two overs of his bowling. Other strong bowlers of South Africa, Imran Tahir and Robin Peterson also gave a sturdy time to Zimbabwe team.
Chinnai first match was won by South African team scoring 153 for 2 and beating Zimbabwe by eight wickets.
