*Official* South Africa in India, Sep/Oct 2019

[TT Boy]

Shame that. South Africa were closing in on their 100. It’s now down to 86 runs a wicket in the series.

 

[StephenZA]

Rahane gifting his wicket there.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Excellent ton from Rahane. Still looked dodgy at times but it was mostly in patches where SA bowled well. Very fluent knock for the most part.

 

[StephenZA]

Rohit has been magnificent this entire series. Does not feel like he is even taking risks to score at the speed he is.

 

[TT Boy]

Wouldn't be surprised if Piedt went back to domestic cricket, worked on the batting and became a PT spinner. Other South African spinners have been hapless but Piedt has been next level bad. Only thing left is for the action to deteriorate and for him to start chucking.

 

[TT Boy]

Rohit has been magnificent this entire series. Does not feel like he is even taking risks to score at the speed he is.

Vintage Sehwag.

 

[TT Boy]

Nortje = Hayward?

 

[harsh.ag]

Almost gets out trying to get the 200 before lunch.

Btw how weird must it feel for SA to have Jadeja bat nonchalantly as the #6 against their attack

 

[sunilz]

Indian openers with 500+ runs in a series
1. Vinoo mankad
2.Budhi kuderan
3.Sunil gavaskar
4.Virender sehwag
5. Rohit sharma

Most centuries by openers in a calendar year in international cricket:

9 - Sachin Tendulkar, 1998
9 - Graeme Smith, 2005
9 - David Warner, 2016
9 - ROHIT SHARMA, 2019*

Most Sixes in a Calender Year

74 - Rohit Sharma (2018)
65 - Rohit Sharma (2017)
63 - AB de Villiers (2015)
59 - Chris Gayle (2012)
58* - Rohit Sharma (2019)*

 

[Bijed]

Currently the cricketweb lexicon defines 'rohit' as the following:

rohit, verb

To disappoint after an impressive start.

The film began with an engrossing fight scene, but then it rohited and the next 90 minutes were unwatchable rubbish.

Suggestions for a revised and updated edition are welcome

 

[harsh.ag]

Manjrekar, VVS, and Graeme Smith trying to put together a dream team to beat India at home. No mention of Azhar Ali as opener Archer in the side even though he's never played in India.

Lame tstl

 

[StephenZA]

Nortje = Hayward?

Not even close, Wayward struggled to bowl consecutive balls on the same pitch... Nortje can still both the right length and length at least 4 balls an over. His control will come as he gains experience at international level.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Bowling short to him is just braindead

 

[marc71178]

Manjrekar, VVS, and Graeme Smith trying to put together a dream team to beat India at home. No mention of Azhar Ali as opener Archer in the side even though he's never played in India

Please tell us all about Azhar’s extensive record in India.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Not even close, Wayward struggled to bowl consecutive balls on the same pitch... Nortje can still both the right length and length at least 4 balls an over. His control will come as he gains experience at international level.

Only real similarity is they are both from out Uitenhage way

 

[vcs]

Sharma gone. Guess you eventually get him out if you feed him short balls over and over again.

 

[vcs]

SA still in the game if they can dismiss India for under 450 I guess.

 

[harsh.ag]

That one looked like it was going to be a 6 too. Until it wasn't.

Really pleasing on the eye again, that innings. Really happy for Rohit.

 

[Shri]

SA still in the game if they can dismiss India for under 450 I guess.

they are already out

variable bounce will get worse and they won't cope with jaddu and shami darting it in

 

[_00_deathscar]

Manjrekar, VVS, and Graeme Smith trying to put together a dream team to beat India at home. No mention of Azhar Ali as opener Archer in the side even though he's never played in India.

Lame tstl

There isn't one. We'd beat Windies and Australia vintage here (I mean, we did beat Australia vintage with worse bowlers...).

This team, at home, is basically 11 Jimmy Anderson equivalents.