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Wow that's a pleasant surprise
Because gauteng and the western cape is best equipped in terms of facilities to host a bio bubble.Vast majority of cases are in the Gauteng province, which has both Johannesburg and Centurion in it-- two of the test venues.
Only Cape Town (the other scheduled venue) is away from that region.
So would make more sense to move the games to places like that, including Durban for example. Otherwise I see this series being in jeopardy. Why play in places where all the covid cases are? Even the bio bubble could have a breach and throw things into disarray during the series like we have seen recently.
Have you accounted for Rohit wandering off looking for vada pav?Both Pakistan and Sri Lanka tours in the last 12 months were done with bio bubbles in gauteng with no incidents.
Bowling is very good, rabada was back at his best last time they played, nortje was lille/thommo vs england levels of vicious and the kolpak players like oliver are back in contention, good spin stocks in linde and maharaj aswell. Batting is bit more shaky, makram has been in godlike form recently and quinny carried them in the windies series, but could very easily see india skittling them with the quality of there bowling. Strikes me as a 2019 ashes eque situation where we have 2 very good bowling lineups and 2 sus batting lineups bar a few quality bats in bowler-friendly conditions, really comes down to which side has someone have a smudge/kohli in england type series.How good is current SA side? I admit I haven’t followed them for last couple of years after senior players retired. Just saw result of their recent series and looks like they have debuted their young batsmen like what was suggested in SA discussion thread. Hoping for a competitive series.
Hope Kohli won’t do something foolish like leaving out Ashwin this time.
?!Kohli will probably be relieved at the sight of not a lot of swing & no spinner bowling at him. He can handle pace n bounce. Gill is another player who is suited on such tracks. Indian playing XI is still a bit of mystery
He probably will handle it as no dukes ball here. Philander was quite good at exploiting his weakness. Rabada Nortje are mostly all pace. Olivier extracts bounce. Rest of the batting may struggle but strangely Kohli will fancy facing such a attack.?!
I also expect plenty of seam movement.
The cases might be in Gauteng now, but that could change by the time the tour actually happens. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to schedule the matches based on how the virus is going to spread, so they're going to have to trust in the bio bubble. And apart from their very first one against England, South Africa's got a good track record in setting up bubbles.Vast majority of cases are in the Gauteng province, which has both Johannesburg and Centurion in it-- two of the test venues.
Only Cape Town (the other scheduled venue) is away from that region.
So would make more sense to move the games to places like that, including Durban for example. Otherwise I see this series being in jeopardy. Why play in places where all the covid cases are? Even the bio bubble could have a breach and throw things into disarray during the series like we have seen recently.
No. Only Cape Town, Centurion and wanderers are considered to be equipped to handle bio bubbles.Any chance they could host the tests in Port Elizabeth & Cape Town only? Paarl gets the ODIs
Are they allowing spectators ?No. Only Cape Town, Centurion and wanderers are considered to be equipped to handle bio bubbles.