*Official* India in South Africa

[kingkallis]

Can any one tell me about RP Singh and Irfan Pathan ??? Are they fit to play or not ?

I am not really sure if this is true but Irfan is disliked by MSD (?), Chirayu Amin ( Baroda Cricket Association ) and some others.

Thats the reason why Irfan wanted to get shifted to Mumbai for Ranji season as well.

If we believe Yusuf then he says that Irfan will be back pretty soon, he is working really hard on his bowling.

 

[Leg Cutter]

Give Dhoni a nice back massage after the game.

Lol..

 

[Leg Cutter]

I am not really sure if this is true but Irfan is disliked by MSD (?), Chirayu Amin ( Baroda Cricket Association ) and some others.

Thats the reason why Irfan wanted to get shifted to Mumbai for Ranji season as well.

If we believe Yusuf then he says that Irfan will be back pretty soon, he is working really hard on his bowling.

Thanks mate .. and what about RP Singh ?..

 

[Furball]

Rob Key is such a gun analyst.

 

[popepouri]

Lopsy with another great impersonation of Bracken. It's interesting that their ODI and test stats are similar.

 

[kingkallis]

Thanks mate .. and what about RP Singh ?..

No idea yaar. He is not from my state

 

[Leg Cutter]

No idea yaar. He is not from my state

But he is from your country .... actually i really like him he has an ability to swing the new ball on both ways... this is what india looking for..

 

[G.I.Joe]

Fun Fact 4

Certain posters only show up when their teams playing well.

 

[Contra]

For some reason we've developed this habit of losing matches with big margins... It's hard to explain as well. I just hope it doesn't happen in the WC lol

 

[TT Boy]

Lopsy to open the bowling

 

[TT Boy]

Great knocks by AB and Duminy....

But the Saffers may want to look for replacements for Ingram and Miller

Kallis will slot in for Ingram but Miller needs Albie at 7 or the knowledge that what's coming next can also win games with the bat.

 

[TT Boy]

Shouldn't have conceded 290 runs anyway tbh.

Indeed. South Africa should have scored 350.

 

[TT Boy]

Toss is the Boss as usual in Day/night ODI's in Durban or most of south africa.

Strangely didn't swing last night but the game was one by South Africa by the 35th over. Morne was awesome.

Game pretty much played out like the last completed ODI at Kingsmead.

1st ODI: South Africa v Australia at Durban, Apr 3, 2009 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[TT Boy]

Sigh. Looks like India really missed Jadeja today.

They did. South African batsman couldn't get him of the square last time they faced him in India. Was the difference from South Africa chasing down 400+ totals. India should consider going in with just Zaheer as their only quick here. Losing Kumar was a huge blow.

 

[M0rphin3]

Fluke, should get hammered in the rest of the series

Bowled well yesterday though.

Indeed. South Africa should have scored 350.

Yeah had they played one extra bat/MVW for ingram they would have reached 320-330 comfortably.

 

[vcs]

Congratulations SA. Almost flawless performance, and Tsotsobe was quite brilliant with the bounce he was able to extract. On these pitches against this attack, I really don't expect much from our batting if Tendulkar goes early. Was a rather depressing reminder of the 2006 ODI series in SA.

 

[vcs]

Fun Fact 4

Certain posters only show up when their teams playing well.

Expect taipan1 back any time now, hasn't been spotted since the 2nd Test.

 

[Turbinator]

Congratulations SA. Almost flawless performance, and Tsotsobe was quite brilliant with the bounce he was able to extract. On these pitches against this attack, I really don't expect much from our batting if Tendulkar goes early. Was a rather depressing reminder of the 2006 ODI series in SA.

Tbh, we did win the T20 World Cup the following year.

 

[TT Boy]

Series result is pretty meaningless. India will still go into the WC regardless of a possible hammering in a good place with a ridiculously strong batting line-up + good bench batting strength and a decent attack for subcontinent conditions. South Africa on the other hand are playing four genuine quicks which is likely to be two too many for the WC and their number 1 spinner isn't getting wickets or stemming the flow of runs.

Ideally South Africa should be focusing on areas of their game where they need to be tested at. So bowling first, seeing who can operate at the death and not concede 30 runs from two overs and whether they can chase down totals in the face of 30 overs of spin. If the wickets are anything like Kingsmead then South Africa will walk this series and just go into the WC under a false sense of security.

 

[smash84]

They should try Imran Tahir in this series. It will be a baptism of fire playing against the indian line-up