India beat South Africa by an innings and 57 runs to tie the two match series 1-1. The game, which was played at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata saw the game go right down to the wire before Harbhajan Singh’s five-wicket haul saw the hosts triumph with only 15 minutes of play remaining.
Resuming on their overnight total of 115/3, the South Africans began well with Hashim Amla and Ashwell Prince; both of whom played out the three Indian bowlers rather easily. With Zaheer Khan ruled out of the game due to his injury, the task looked like getting more difficult for the Indians, but they would have known that one wicket would have brought another. 
As it turned out, the South Africans lost two in a row before the lunch break. After having batted through 25 overs, Prince looked to be struggling with his concentration against Harbhajan and soon played early to one that went straight on and gave the mid-off a simple scoop. Prince’s dismissal was immediately followed by the one of AB de Villiers as he failed to read a googly from Amit Mishra and the South Africans were in trouble with their top five gone at lunch.
Immediately after lunch, their only hope was for Amla and the last recognised batsman in JP Duminy to shrug off form and bat out at least one session. It was not to be as both, Duminy, and the new man, Dale Steyn fell quickly to the guile of Harbhajan Singh as the Indians looked to have taken full control of the game with the score at 180/7 and more than half the day to play.
The South Africans then clawed back with a partnership between Amla and an able ally in Wayne Parnell, both of whom batted with equal aplomb and poise. For a number nine, Parnell batted really well, and at one stage, it almost looked like the Indians had had their shoulders drooping before the Ishant Sharma was brought in with the new ball.
Sharma stuck twice; one to get rid of Parnell, and the second time to get Paul Harris edging to the thickly populated slip cordon to have the South Africans nine down and on the brink of a loss. Amla was still there on a century, but it needed someone to stay with and that had not happened throughout the day.
It was the last man, Morne Morkel who did just that for almost 20 overs as the pair started to make the Indians – both the players, and the fans – edgy. By the time Harbhajan finally managed to get rid of the last man, it was only 15 minutes from the end of play and the celebration that followed would have said how nervous all of them were.
Amla won all the awards, the man of the match and the series, while also winning the best batsman award.