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*Official* India in South Africa

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Harbhajan Singh into the attack. He has to have a better game than he did last time, otherwise India could be chasing 275 plus.
 
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TT Boy

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Overcast conditions, greenish wicket and India are going to bowl more than 30+ overs of spin. Dhoni should send down a few overs.
 

TT Boy

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50 for van Wyk. :) Not many thirty+ cricketers have second comings (can only think of Neil Mac) in the South African side.
 

Daemon

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They way yuvraj's bowling is going the only way for Kohli to play is if Raina fails today..
 

vcs

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Our pace bowling is a bit of a worry in ODIs. Zaheer is extremely skilled, but does not have the pace to hurry batsmen at all. Munaf "innocuous" Patel bowls a Mohammed Asif-like pace and length without the movement. Nehra has lost his ability to swing it lately, not much accuracy either. I can see a lot of teams getting off to a 100/1 off 15 overs type start against us.
 

Prince EWS

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But Kohli would/should never bat in Pathan's slot. Will India reshuffle to suit? Doubt it.
I really don't see why moving Yuvraj out of the top four is a bad thing, though, or considered batting him out of position. As far as I'm concerned they've already reshuffled to suit, and putting Kohli at four would just restore the natural order of the rest of the batsmen.
 

TT Boy

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AB d v has lost his form right before the world cup or what? :D
3 dismissals to rank long hops tbf and I think he is more concerned about losing his hair.

Rohit nearly got another freebie wicket with this stock delivery, the long hop.
 
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kingkallis

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I really don't see why moving Yuvraj out of the top four is a bad thing, though, or considered batting him out of position. As far as I'm concerned they've already reshuffled to suit, and putting Kohli at four would just restore the natural order of the rest of the batsmen.
I totally agree about this. Yuvraj @ 5, Dhoni @ 6 and Pathan @ 7 still looks good.

Kohli and Raina does not have a huge gap between them. Its just that Kohli is in better form.
 

Cevno

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If we drop Raina though ,with Yuvraj bowling 5 overs ,Pathan will have to bowl the other 5.

Also Raina is a proven finisher who can slog from the get go if need be and play cautiously too in Indian conditions.
And with Dhoni himself wanting to go up top,he is used to batting at 6 and is also is a left hander and thus lends balance too.

Besides Kohli has little experience in the middle order. And we need atleast along with Sehwag one more in the top 4 who can accelerate from the get go.
Loading the team with top orfder bats can be risky.
 

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