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*Official* India in South Africa

Blaze 18

Blaze 18

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Arjun said:
India's bowling has looked weak, enough to lose matches, primarily due to the part-timers. When they've struggled to score 250 even once in these conditions, they've given away more than that score three times out of five. Against a South African side with six batsmen, no Kallis and no Boucher. There's no quality in that bowling at all. They're a lot less effective than South Africa's tail.

This should serve as food for thought. A fifth bowler won't hurt at all. Kumar, Ashwin and Harbhajan are competent batsmen, and can accumulate enough runs to add to team totals. Collectively, more than Yuvraj.
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Daresay Gambhir, Tendulkar and Sehwag would have made a difference. As for the bowling, I agree there is room for improvement, but I think Praveen Kumar could have made a difference in these conditions.
 
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vcs said:
Yeah S. Africa have had the luck with the LBW's in the last couple of games and the Parthiv catch shouldn't have been given IMO. Not that it would have mattered ultimately.
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Funny no-one is mentioning it though. People were going on and on about the Botha lbw in the second game.
 
vcs

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C'mon fellas, let's see if we can get Morkel's bowling average for this series into double figures here.
 
Jono

Jono

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All we needed was someone to stay out there with him.

This makes it so much more frustrating.

****ing ****ty wafted drives.
 
Arjun

Arjun

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Blaze 18 said:
Daresay Gambhir, Tendulkar and Sehwag would have made a difference. As for the bowling, I agree there is room for improvement, but I think Praveen Kumar could have made a difference in these conditions.
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If India missed Sehwag, Sachin and Gambhir, South Africa missed Kallis, Albie and Boucher. As for the bowling, Nehra's been worse than an off-form Ishant, and Munaf, even at best, has been left way behind by Morne Morkel, but the part-timers are so dire, Praveen could have made a difference, surely, in place of them.

Ashwin-Praveen-Harbhajan-Zaheer-Nehra/Munaf isn't a bad combination at all. Yusuf's strikes, however, make this combination improbable.
 
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Jono said:
This guy is pretty good for a hack 8-)
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There must be plenty of hacks going around in world cricket right now for Pathan to be outscoring them... :ph34r: maybe people should look for them closer to home.
 
Contra

Contra

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Yeah this just goes to show how **** we were in the first 15 overs. There weren't any demons in the pitch either.
 
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