***Official*** South Africa in India 2015

[Cabinet96]

End of an era of sorts

 

[Heboric]

Oh well

Good nine years sawn off by a toss of a coin

 

[Burner]

Oh well

Good nine years sawn off by a toss of a coin

You are right. It didn't matter which side of the coin SA chose, they were going to lose anyway.

 

[Heboric]

You are right. It didn't matter which side of the coin SA chose, they were going to lose anyway.

I am not so sure about that.

Trying to say that the toss wasnt a factor is extremely disingenuous

 

[harsh.ag]

Amla and Faf did a hell of a lot, but congratulations to the Indian team, and especially Ashwinnnnnn!

 

[harsh.ag]

Ashwin in 2015 so far - 8 games, 55 wickets @ 17.81 striking at 34.2 with 6 five-fers

 

[OverratedSanity]

Oh well

Good nine years sawn off by a toss of a coin

Come off it. SA collapsed on day 2.

 

[Marius]

For all the moaning about the pitch (and I was one of them) India won, fair and square. South Africa knew what they were coming up against and didn't cope. So, well done to India.

Still not sure that a series where the highest team score is 215 is good for the game, but a series win is a series win.

 

[Shri]

I don't have anything against any of these things (although admittedly when India lose it's usually pretty hilarious). I do however have an issue with a no-break specialist like Jadeja getting this much turn half an hour into day 2 on the basis that it obviously violates the fair balance between bat and ball that enables high quality cricket to come to the fore.

And yes, for the record, green-tops that end with both teams being shot out for under 150 (such as was on show during the much cherished but heavily asterisked 2011 Hobart test) are just as bad as this ****.

You do realize Jadeja stopped turning the ball for a while because his shoulder was injured right? He used to be accurate and slightly turn the ball always and he is doing it again.

 

[harsh.ag]

For all the moaning about the pitch (and I was one of them) India won, fair and square. South Africa knew what they were coming up against and didn't cope. So, well done to India.

Still not sure that a series where the highest team score is 215 is good for the game, but a series win is a series win.

That's largely down to the Saffers collapsing for 214 in Bangalore though.

 

[Cabinet96]

Jadeja gives it a proper rip. Was ragging it square in the Champions Trophy in 2013.

 

[Agent TBY]

As someone who doesn't care if the pitch was up to standards or not, all the talk in this thread did was remind me (one day after Thanksgiving) that I should be very grateful to Sehwag for preventing such ****posting throughout his career.

Exactly the kind of game where he'd make a prank score and retroactively turn the pitch into a flat one.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Haha I was just going to say that Sehwag would've managed 115(98) on this pitch with everyone else plodding to ugly 30s

 

[Shri]

Why are you getting so angry. IPL means you spend time and see the bounce of the Indian wickets. You are not an alien to Indian conditions like teams were in the 90s. I disagree that these pitches are mellow compared to the 90s. I have seen most of the tests at home in the 90s. Kumble used length really well there. Batsmen could score 500-600 runs. Imagine us scoring 600 here. We will not get used to such pitches even if they carry on for a couple of years. Maybe we will play with soft hands more and learn some more ways to survive a bit before that unlucky ball comes along. Elgar has experienced this so many times this series.

Very likely that you just read the cricinfo commentary 99% of the time and watch the highlights to form an opinion. In the 90s, it was probably the radio. Having been around doesn't automatically make you intelligent or add any real value to your comments. If your analysis is this bad now, I can only imagine what it was like when you were younger with even lesser experience. So no I am not interested in your thoughts on technical aspects of cricket because I rarely see you making any good point.

 

[Heboric]

Going by how the Indians (who we keep on hearing by pundits / fans are good at playing spin) did against the Protea spinners (who are supposed to be garbage) i am still convinced the results would have been different if South Africa batted first. I mean when one team barts on a pitch that is okayish for two odd sessions then after that it start to crumble that is enough time to have a small platform and what happens after that is a bonus.

 

[TheJediBrah]

One of the reasons I have massive respect for South Africa, they're not going to prepare fast green-tops when India tour for "revenge". They will be disappointed but when a home team stacks the odds against you that high there's not much you can do.

India still had to play well to win though and they did that. You can't really say that India didn't deserve the win, they played on the same pitch after all.

Respect to both teams for mine. However disappointed by the pitch and the concept of pitch-doctoring in general.

 

[social]

Ashwin in 2015 so far - 8 games, 55 wickets @ 17.81 striking at 34.2 with 6 five-fers

Last series outside the subcontinent he averaged 49 a few months ago

 

[social]

One of the reasons I have massive respect for South Africa, they're not going to prepare fast green-tops when India tour for "revenge". They will be disappointed but when a home team stacks the odds against you that high there's not much you can do.

India still had to play well to win though and they did that. You can't really say that India didn't deserve the win, they played on the same pitch after all.

Respect to both teams for mine. However disappointed by the pitch and the concept of pitch-doctoring in general.

They will prepare normal SA pitches, win easily and be accused of doctoring their wickets

 

[weldone]

2-0 against World no. 1s - this tastes good

 

[Pratters]

Very likely that you just read the cricinfo commentary 99% of the time and watch the highlights to form an opinion. In the 90s, it was probably the radio. Having been around doesn't automatically make you intelligent or add any real value to your comments. If your analysis is this bad now, I can only imagine what it was like when you were younger with even lesser experience. So no I am not interested in your thoughts on technical aspects of cricket because I rarely see you making any good point.

LOL, sure.