India's 10th Test in South Africa finally brought their first win

India recorded their first Test victory in South Africa with a magnificent 123-run success on the fourth morning.

Resuming on 163-5, South Africa lost Mark Boucher in the third over when he was trapped lbw by a ball from left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan.

Shaun Pollock hit his first ball for four and added a six and five more boundaries before missing a slog sweep.

Final hope Ashwell Prince was ninth out for a gritty 97, when he became one of three victims for Anil Kumble.

India's success was all the more impressive considering their comprehensive 4-0 defeat in the preceeding one-day series.

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But after picking up the early wicket of Boucher, India had to wait a little for their seventh breakthrough as Pollock got stuck in.

Having flicked Zaheer off his toes to open his account, the experienced all-rounder added another leg-side boundary two balls later.

Then in the left-arm seamer's next over, Pollock pulled him for a towering six and thumped a drive back past the bowler.

Pollock had also hit Kumble to the boundary when, continuing his aggressive approach, he tried an ungainly swipe and was bowled between a horizontal bat and his front pad, beaten for pace.

Perhaps aware of the batsmen he was left with, Prince moved into the 80s with successive boundaries off VRV Singh.

Kumble then began to take hold although he was perhaps fortunate to take his third wicket of the innings.

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A fine googly at express pace beat Andre Nel all ends up but looked as though it would have bounced over off stump.

In the final over before the new ball was due, Prince moved in sight of his fifth Test century with three successive fours off Singh, but then became another to be entangled by Kumble and yorked himself.

The celebrations began in earnest when last man Makhaya Ntini sliced Khan above cover and Virender Sehwag took a well-judged catch to the immense delight of his teammates and a small but enthusiastic band of supporters.

Meanwhile, India paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was later fined a total of 30% of his match fee for two level one breaches of the ICC code.

His over-zealous celebration of the wicket of Hashim Amla was deemed to have been against the spirit of the game.

That cost him 20% and an additional 10% will be extracted from his pay packet for two instances of wearing commercial logos on his clothing.