Top 5 Test run-getters for India in South Africa

#4 Sourav Ganguly

Despite a suspect technique against the short ball, Ganguly played a few doughty knocks in South Africa

Despite his heroics in the 50-overs format, Ganguly found haters galore for his questionable record overseas in Tests. Yet, Ganguly remains one of the four Indians to score over 500 runs on South African soil, despite the pacy and bouncy wickets: two of Ganguly's biggest foes throughout his career.

Fresh from a scintillating start to his Test career in England, a young Ganguly traveled with the team to Africa in the winters of 1996 and was expected to re-create the magic. The four-pronged pace attack was at its peak, and India were burdened by the tag of being poor travelers. Two fighting fifties in Johannesburg proved that he belonged to the big stage.

India's 2006 tour to South Africa crisscrossed with Ganguly's renaissance: shelved after his feud with Greg Chappell, he had to muscle his way back. A fighting fifty on return at Johannesburg, when the whole team went down like a pack of cards, epitomised the spirit of Ganguly.

In between, he played the 2001 series, his first real Test abroad as captain, but could not get even a fifty in two games.

Tests: 8

Runs: 506

Average: 36.14

50s/100s: 4/0

Highest: 73