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***Official*** India in South Africa 2013/14
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I would say batting against India is the ultimate snow mountain, so yeah.
Agent Nationaux
International Coach
Tendulkar saves India again. This time by doing the rain dance.
Viscount Tom
International Debutant
Ishant Sharma calls the De Kock lucky... Ishant Sharma calling someone else lucky.
vicleggie
State Vice-Captain
Ishant can still have a Zaheer/Anderson type career. He's 25 ffs. What do India expect when they bowl him on dead wickets in high scoring ODI's 90% of the time.
Bowled really well for his first 3 wickets yesterday. Just sad and pathetic that India's seamers don't see more even-balanced conditions like that (ie good batting wicket, but some help early on)
Bowled really well for his first 3 wickets yesterday. Just sad and pathetic that India's seamers don't see more even-balanced conditions like that (ie good batting wicket, but some help early on)
Dead rubber.
kykweer.proteas
International Debutant
South Africa has a different approach towards dead rubbers than teams like India.
Always pressure to win.
OverratedSanity
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Please... They rested half their attack. It was obvious how they looked at this game
While on topic, I think it was stupid to rest Steyn and morkel. SA have played precious little cricket this year anyway, and it's not as if they have a 5test series coming up
JontyPanesar
U19 Vice-Captain
lol you clearly haven't watched that much of Ishant, especially of late. He has gradually lost his pace. His seam position sucks. And he was never that accurate unless you set your field for short and wide long hops to be bowled. Especially for tests, he struggles to pitch it up without straying down leg side.
Even if there was help for the seamers early on with grass left on the pitch, there's no way of getting around the fact that Indian pitches are going to have low bounce. So India's faster bowlers get used to bowling back of a length because that still gets them bowleds and lbws pretty consistently. You just can't bowl Ishant's line and length anywhere else and expect to take wickets consistently. Some Indian bowlers have shown they can pitch it up in the channel, like Srinath and even Yadav in Australia (I realize I'm dealing with a paltry sample size). Until Ishant shows me he can pitch at least the odd delivery up on a good line, his case seems a bit hopeless for test cricket.
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No. He's ****
yeah okay, that is why Steyn, Morkel and Kallis were rested then?
But yeah AB in particular seems to take a lot of pressure in dead rubbers. MoM in both dead rubbers against Pak and would have been yesterday too.
Shri
Mr. Glass
What prevents us from making fast pitches in India? Is it impossible because of the weather or is it just instructions for groundsmen to not make such pitches? I think they genuinely tried to build pace friendly wickets in a lot of grounds in India 3-4 years ago and could just come up with roads because of the conditions. They scrapped that idea because they couldn't get results and went back to turners recently imo. Seem to remember a lot of grounds where the pitches got re-laid.