***Official*** India in South Africa 2017/18

[Woodster]

One good thing is now that we have the bowling to do damage on cloudy days too.

Bhuvi especially I can imagine troubling the English line-up. Thought he bowled with a lot of skill on this series and was exceptionally unlucky to miss out in the second Test with the series on the line.

 

[Shri]

You ever seen Anderson bowl in English conditions ? He will be a problem for the Indian batsmen, I can assure you of that, cloudy or otherwise.

Never gets old.

 

[Motorwada]

Bhuvi especially I can imagine troubling the English line-up. Thought he bowled with a lot of skill on this series and was exceptionally unlucky to miss out in the second Test with the series on the line.

Yeah. Often what would happen is we would be bundled for 150-160 odd on a greentop and then concede 300-400. With this bowling lineup I don't think that will happen and we can limit the damage even if we bat badly.

 

[burr]

Yay, well done India! The game needs more away wins. Good job!

 

[S.Kennedy]

This victory will be good preparation for India. If England serve up a green seamer (à la Trent Bridge 2015) they can always say to themselves, ''well it isn't as bad as the Wanderers and we won there''.

 

[karan316]

Good win for India. But the pitch was pretty poor and we are lucky that no one is having a serious injury. It was pretty enjoyable to watch, but the safety of the players is more important.

 

[Heboric]

It confuses me that people haven't worked out how massively over-rated de Kock is.

#BREAKING NEWS
Quentin De Kock becomes the first batsmen in cricket history to be out of form.
Will retire from cricket because some internet tough guy says he is ****

 

[Bahseph]

If you are comparing him to Gilchrist at this stage of his career then yeah I think it's over rating him. But he is a Gun, and when he is inform he has won us games on his own. I hope he gets out of this slump ASAP cos Aus is going to be a tough prospect.

 

[BigCaine]

Found this on Twitter today, not a pretty picture given SA's history.

 

[Starfighter]

Yeah, that's not a good look at all.

 

[Heboric]

Nah in this day and age of ultra Political Correctness, its the reactions that are the worst

 

[Starfighter]

Nah in this day and age of ultra Political Correctness, its the reactions that are the worst

There's a reason I don't go into the politics subbie much.

 

[Tom Flint]

Indians talking about being OK as long as they see off Anderson by showing him respect on cloudy days.
Good luck with that, it'll be another 25/30 + wickets for jimmy. Although the series will be a lot closer than last time with India's bowling being first class nowadays

 

[Heboric]

There's a reason I don't go into the politics subbie much.

I mean I see Faf kiss Rabada many times. Although that can be for another forum...

 

[MW1304]

There's a reason I don't go into the politics subbie much.

Interesting since that subforum is mostly people complaining about political correctness.

The picture is obviously just unfortunate. In fact it's so unfortunate it's almost funny.

 

[weldone]

Test match batting averages while batting outside subcontinent:
Rahane 53
Kohli 46
Pujara 27
Rohit 24

All of them made their debut in 2013 or before. So, Kohli and Shastri had 5 years to decide which one to drop for the first 2 tests.

I rest my case.

 

[Spark]

Haha wow, surely someone had to look at that and go "uh, guys..."

 

[SeamUp]

Just been able to catch up with everything.

A shocker of a pitch again and the change over of proper groundsman to 'insert lack of knowledge' groundsman really is embarrassing and I feel almost the need to apologise.

First of all we lucky enough Centurion wasn't like this with their new groundsman but it was totally the opposite pitch SA asked for. The exact type of pitch at Centurion is what Durban has become and again it leaves you to wonder about the lack of knowledge since the loss of experienced and knowledgeable groundsman there.

Recently (last season) there was a domestic one-day game in Bloem called off because it was dangerous. First I had seen and now this.

Really hope CSA actually get off their arses and get something in place to ensure these things don't happen.

 

[Bolo]

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Found this on Twitter today, not a pretty picture given SA's history.

With an exception or two everywhere :

Left side: bowlers, less experienced players, defacto english speakers, non-white

Right side: batsman, defacto Afrikaans speakers, more experienced players, white

Don't go looking to stir a racial pot unnecessarily, particularly when there are plenty of more logical other solutions.

 

[Kirkut]

Test match batting averages while batting outside subcontinent:
Rahane 53
Kohli 46
Pujara 27
Rohit 24

All of them made their debut in 2013 or before. So, Kohli and Shastri had 5 years to decide which one to drop for the first 2 tests.

I rest my case.

That's because Kohli and Shastribot overly prioritize aggressive cricket.