Strike Rate??
Strike Rate??
Come on; it deserved at least a 2/10.....0/10 for counter. Now if you had said "with the bat", Nohit would have liked it.
I`m not worried about our bowling attack, we will not just easily run through the Indian line-up but I think we will be disciplined... so the question is can the Indian batsmen be disciplined?? I think Philander and Morkel will bowl well; Hopefully our spinner (whoever that may be) keeps things tight I don't expect them to take lots of wickets. My biggest concern at the moment is Amla... his form has been terrible and I`m hoping that he comes good during the tests.
Its a tricky one, he has hardly played any tests recently, so tough to gauge him on this. As a limited overs player, he has been very poor recently and as he has done his whole career stunk it out in the world cup when they needed him the most.He may need a break in limited overs cricket possibly, but he needs a few under performing test series, before we should start talking about decline.
Just get rid of the 9 around him..they seem to be quite eager.
Is this not true for any team... if the batsmen gets runs, bowlers bowl well and get wickets then they win! My personal (i.e. biased) opinion is that if SA play to their potential then the Indian bowling attack cannot bowl SA out, except for maybe Ashwin on a good turner.
I don't think that the SA batting is brittle, our openers are inexperienced but Faf, Amla and DeVillers are well proven. (Hence, my concern regarding Amla`s form, but class is permanent) Duminy (hoping he plays) and Vilas will be solid. Harmer and Philander can hold a bat but I am not counting on any of our bottom 4 to add many runs. Whereas I look at the Indian batting line-up and see highly talented but unproven inconsistent performers, who I think may struggle against consistent disciplined bowling, which SA will bring.
Rahane and Vijay are good test batsmen who can handle anything thrown at them and they are in decent form. Rahul looks promising and Kohli is the kind of guy who can start looking like he was never out of form after one good innings. Rohit on Indian pitches is just gold. Ashwin is bowling insanely well too. We are good enough to compete. Maybe even beat them. Pace bowling options sucks balls admittedly. Shami in the squad could have helped.
Yea what I was trying to say is the opposite - peak India will beat peak SA. But India's bad days are much worse than South Africa's, and they have been a lot more inconsistent than SA, so really if SA just maintain a decent level of cricket they could win.
