Top 5 Boxing Day Tests of all time

2. South Africa vs India (2010 at Durban)

Indian players celebrate their win

India headed into the second Test match at Durban having being annihilated by South Africa in the first Test match. The surface at Kingsmead was conducive to fast bowling and India were inserted into bat by South African captain Graeme Smith.

Dale Steyn was lethal for the home side and picked up 6 wickets to bowl out India for just 205 runs. With the ball, Indian fast bowlers kept on picking wickets regularly to put the hosts on the back foot.

A 4-wicket haul from Harbhajan Singh helped India restrict South Africa for just 131 runs. A lead of 74 runs was more than handy on a difficult Kingsmead pitch. India was placed at a precarious position of 93/5 in the second innings but a brilliant counter-attacking 96 from VVS Laxman helped them post a challenging target of 303 runs for the Proteas.

In reply, the top 6 batsmen of South African got starts but failed to carry on as S. Sreesanth and Zaheer Khan picked up 6 wickets between themselves to hand India a famous win by 87 runs.