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***Official*** India in South Africa 2013/14

centurymaker

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah agreed.

India may rue not playing another bowler later on in the game though, especially if the pitch starts taking enough turn.
 
J

Jassy

Banned
Bad light and bad weather considered, I don't think we'll have more than 3 more days of cricket in this match. If India bat out a couple of sessions tomorrow - which they really should unless they collapse in a heap - it'll take something extraordinary for either side to force a win. How SA may rue not going for the win in the first game! India would have bitten your hand off if offered a drawn series at the start. How many rating points do SA lose should the series end 0-0?
 
centurymaker

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
1 win & 1 loss is treated the same as 2 draws.

India aren't like 40-50 points behind SA that the latter would lose heaps for just drawing a short series.

Just did the calculation. India will gain 1 point, while SA will lose 1.
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
This is why you can't just say 'we'll win the next one'. Even discounting the weather, very few teams have been good enough to make that type of statement definitively - and all of those teams would have been aggressive and backed themselves and gone for it anyway. You have to go for it if there's a chance. SA may very well win this yet, but they should have tried last match....
 
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centurymaker

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
silentstriker said:
This is why you can't just say 'we'll win the next one'. Even discounting the weather, very few teams have been good enough to make that type of statement definitively - and all of those teams would have been aggressive and backed themselves and gone for it anyway. You have to go for it if there's a chance. SA may very well win this yet, but they should have tried last match....
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True, maybe if Phil and Steyn had tried to go for it (slogs), India may well have ended up winning instead. But yeah they could taken any singles on offer but I am sure Dhoni would not have allowed Styen any free runs (i.e. would've brought the field up for him), so I guess Steyn feared that if he got out in that pressure situation with 2-3 overs to go, he'd expose the true weaklings to follow.
 
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Briony

Briony

International Debutant
SA must have known that they would struggle in Durban so of course a draw put pressure on them. They are probably disappointed though that at home against India they have been handed two pitches which offer very little for their pacemen. The ODIs certainly produced spicy decks.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
So long as India don't lose this test I'll be happy. And not from an Indian fan point of view. From a cricket fan point of view. And a fan of logic point of view.

South Africa's tactics in Jo'burg were just ****ing stupid/weak, and if they win here they'll falsely be justified in thinking they did the right thing. If thy end up drawing a series 0-0 to a rookie Indian team filled with kids who have barely played (if ever) outside the subcontinent it will be embarrassing. All thanks to illogical tactics in the first test.

Their blunder wouldn't be justified even if they won this test. But if they don't win it, it will be highlighted more. I feel the Durban groundsman knows this too and has prepared the track accordingly :ph34r:
 
Shri

Shri

Mr. Glass
So, this will be the 4th consecutive drawn test series between India and SA. Guess the current lot consider the SAfricans to be the best and play them with a lot of seriousness and respect just like the previous generation played the Australians.
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
centurymaker said:
True, maybe if Phil and Steyn had tried to go for it (slogs), India may well have ended up winning instead. But yeah they could taken any singles on offer but I am sure Dhoni would not have allowed Styen any free runs (i.e. would've brought the field up for him), so I guess Steyn feared that if he got out in that pressure situation with 2-3 overs to go, he'd expose the true weaklings to follow.
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If you're that afraid of losing, you're just biding time until someone replaces you as #1. I know the two are t related necessarily but odd that an aggressive fast bowler like steyn would be so defensive in his tactics.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Shri said:
So, this will be the 4th consecutive drawn test series between India and SA. Guess the current lot consider the SAfricans to be the best and play them with a lot of seriousness and respect just like the previous generation played the Australians.
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Not a draw yet. Shut it.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
It wasn't about the time lost, it was about how **** we were even at 1-200 and can collapse.

Draw is like $1.50 favourite so obviously its likely going to be a draw. But you're doing your best to jinx India here, hard.
 
Shri

Shri

Mr. Glass
Jono said:
It wasn't about the time lost, it was about how **** we were even at 1-200 and can collapse.

Draw is like $1.50 favourite so obviously its likely going to be a draw. But you're doing your best to jinx India here, hard.
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Why would I jinx my own side?
 
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