*Official* India in South Africa

[Jono]

You've never seen Praveen play a 4 day game, only ODIs. So how can you rate his prospects as a test bowler?

 

[Zinzan]

Off to bed, this is turning out to be a total mismatch. India were always go to struggle to 20 wickets in this series, the question is whether their batsmen can save the test in the 2nd innings.

 

[Rant0r]

You've never seen Praveen play a 4 day game, only ODIs. So how can you rate his prospects as a test bowler?

You mean I can't rate a bowler on watching his technique ? Doesn't matter if it's one dayers or 4 dayers, you can still judge if someone is any good or not. He's just a one day trundler

 

[Jono]

India were always go to struggle to 20 wickets in this series, the question is whether their batsmen can save the test in the 2nd innings.

Bit harsh considering we lost our best bowler, but no doubt this has been a poor performance from Ishant and Sree.

Unadkat really shouldn't be playing.

But I think we're even. I said batting would be India's main concern, you said bowler. Both have been piss poor

 

[Ruckus]

What's the deal with the pitch? India rolled, then SA cruising. Better bowling, or something else at work?

 

[Rant0r]

Bit harsh considering we lost our best bowler, but no doubt this has been a poor performance from Ishant and Sree.

Unadkat really shouldn't be playing.

But I think we're even. I said batting would be India's main concern, you said bowler. Both have been piss poor

India really do put a lot of their eggs in one basket with Zaheer. To be fair to them though, Ishants form (or lack of) and fitness, and the inability of the talented backups to step up when called upon has cost them.

 

[Jono]

What's the deal with the pitch? India rolled, then SA cruising. Better bowling, or something else at work?

It's kind of weird. The pitch was more difficult to bat yesterday (as expected), but at the same time Steyn and Morkel bowled really really well. India also didn't exactly bat to an adequate level.

Today it's just been piss poor bowling on a pitch that has dried out a bit, but is still doing enough if you're good enough. Right now India aren't.

SA batted well to get rid of the new ball without any damage. Grinded, but after that it's been one way traffic.

 

[Jono]

India really do put a lot of their eggs in one basket with Zaheer. To be fair to them though, Ishants form (or lack of) and fitness, and the inability of the talented backups to step up when called upon has cost them.

We definitely rely way too much on Zaheer. Not one Indian fan will deny it.

But to say India were always going to struggle to take 20 wickets is a little bit harsh considering the reason Indian fans had any hope going into this series was the fact we had a top 5 fast bowler in the world, on form, ready to attack SA. Instead we have a 19 year old stick man who only had one good season last season.

 

[Rant0r]

I know we covered this in here last night, but how many hotties are there in the crowd ?

 

[vcs]

What's the deal with the pitch? India rolled, then SA cruising. Better bowling, or something else at work?

SA bowled brilliantly, and India have been ****e.

 

[smash84]

We definitely rely way too much on Zaheer. Not one Indian fan will deny it.

But to say India were always going to struggle to take 20 wickets is a little bit harsh considering the reason Indian fans had any hope going into this series was the fact we had a top 5 fast bowler in the world, on form, ready to attack SA. Instead we have a 19 year old stick man who only had one good season last season.

yeah too much reliance on Zaheer.

btw wtf is the MRF pace academy doing????

 

[Jono]

Producing Pankaj Singh, who is not being used.

 

[Manee]

Mithun has hardly been ordinary this season. Still taken 19 wickets at 27. Not terrible. I bet he has a part to play in the finals.

In India, it is not fantastic. Top bowlers in a season average around 20-25.

 

[Jono]

Which is ironic considering everyone slams Indian domestic cricket for having batting averages that are way too high

Anyway, I'm predicting Mithun and Vinay Kumar to take Karnataka one step further and win the Ranji Super this year.

 

[Manee]

What's the deal with the pitch? India rolled, then SA cruising. Better bowling, or something else at work?

Conditions were quite a bit in SA's favour and SA's pace bowlers are just ridiculously better than India's.

Producing Pankaj Singh, who is not being used.

In his second season in a row averaging under 20 with the ball, which is good signs. Looking at his season-by-season, he hasn't been as consistent as I'd thought, but yeah, he had a good last year and is having a good'un this year.

 

[smash84]

Producing Pankaj Singh, who is not being used.

why is he not being used???

 

[Contra]

Just nothing going right for us is there lol

 

[Ruckus]

Instead we have a 19 year old stick man who only had one good season last season.

Hah, there's one in support of Goughy's 'intimidation' theory:

 

[Jono]

Nah I don't agree with the theory. Ishant didn't look intimidating really when he owned Ponting in Perth in 2008.

But Unadkat still has a lot of growing and learning to do. Nice action, but so raw. So so raw.

 

[Manee]

Instead we have a 19 year old stick man who only had one good season last season.

It was not even a good season, it was a single good match on debut.