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***Official*** India in South Africa 2021-22

StephenZA

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Which younger batsmen are ready? Van tonder struggling this year.
He's avg 40+ even if not tearing it up...

Petersen, van Tonder, Hamza, Breetzke, Richards, Rickleton, de Zorzi, J. Malan.... all those players deserve a shot at the SA test side.

Its why I`m not such a fan of VDD playing. Not because he is poor but because his and Bavumas selection stops us from testing and finding the best of the youngsters for the future.

Many of those players are going to have effectively lost two years of playing career, without having a chance to force themselves into the SA squad or gain experience. With SA selection consistency of picking by line of succession determined age it is gonna hold SA back for many more years.
 

Rasimione

U19 Captain
Temba Bavuma continued selection is hard to justify when you look at stats of players he's competing with with. I do wonder if there's a clear guideline from CSA that a black batsmen has to be in the side at all times. Petersen and Hamza should be in the side at his expense.
 

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Rohit potentially out injured. Know there's a ton of meme's around him in SENA but genuinly seemed like he'de turned a leaf in the england tour, will be heavily missed this tour.

1.Agarwal
2.Rahul
3.Puj
4.Kohli
5.Iyer/viharu
6.Pant

Really does nit look convincing in this conditions given kohli and pujara's form.
 

WpGuy

U19 Cricketer
Temba Bavuma continued selection is hard to justify when you look at stats of players he's competing with with. I do wonder if there's a clear guideline from CSA that a black batsmen has to be in the side at all times. Petersen and Hamza should be in the side at his expense.
themba gets important runs at 5 or 6 and seems to look solid but at average of only 32 and 1 100 its maybe time if they have to have a african batsmen than De Zorzi gets picked.
 

CricAddict

Cricketer Of The Year
Rohit potentially out injured. Know there's a ton of meme's around him in SENA but genuinly seemed like he'de turned a leaf in the england tour, will be heavily missed this tour.

1.Agarwal
2.Rahul
3.Puj
4.Kohli
5.Iyer/viharu
6.Pant

Really does nit look convincing in this conditions given kohli and pujara's form.
With Jaddu and Axar both out, lower order doesn’t inspire confidence too.
 

Arachnodouche

International Captain
Rohit potentially out injured. Know there's a ton of meme's around him in SENA but genuinly seemed like he'de turned a leaf in the england tour, will be heavily missed this tour.

1.Agarwal
2.Rahul
3.Puj
4.Kohli
5.Iyer/viharu
6.Pant

Really does nit look convincing in this conditions given kohli and pujara's form.
Rahane has that #5 sewn up for the first game at the very least. Besides, does he become VC again in Rohit's absence, hence undroppable? What a mess.
 

Shri

Mr. Glass
Rohit potentially out injured. Know there's a ton of meme's around him in SENA but genuinly seemed like he'de turned a leaf in the england tour, will be heavily missed this tour.

1.Agarwal
2.Rahul
3.Puj
4.Kohli
5.Iyer/viharu
6.Pant

Really does nit look convincing in this conditions given kohli and pujara's form.
Panchal scored a 90 odd in the a tour game.

Shaw seems to be making quick 40s and 30s in SA.

Easwaran made a hundred and a 50 in the A series recently. Idk why we picked a 31 year old to replace rohit.

I hope this isn't used as an excuse to pick Rahane again. And Shreyas shouldn't be picked either because bounce. And we don't know if Rahul is fully fit yet either.

I'd go:

Agarwal
Panchal (if rahul isn't fit)
Pujara
Kohli
Vihari
Pant
Ashwin
Thakur
Shami
Bumrah
Siraj
 

Shri

Mr. Glass
washington sundar has played 4 games for TN since december 8 and was training in mumbai to get fit for the first sa test but isn't in the squad. infuriating. could have been trialed for the no.5 spot with vihari batting 3
 

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
I am certain that there are more injuries they haven't disclosed yet or that quite a few more players will get injured soon and by the 3rd test, it may be a completely different side to one we all initially expected.

It happened in Australia and it was going to happen in the 5th test in England where there were reports that a number of players were expected to be ruled out. It's also been happening in the home test series in the last couple of years.

So it has become a pattern, this lot keeps falling like flies to injuries. Training seems to be too intense ...or they are exerting too much. They need to hire some professional physios and trainers from overseas and not push the players beyond their 'own' limits rather than getting them to meet some arbitrary standards set. Something is seriously wrong with the Indian training/fitness regime!
 

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
washington sundar has played 4 games for TN since december 8 and was training in mumbai to get fit for the first sa test but isn't in the squad. infuriating. could have been trialed for the no.5 spot with vihari batting 3
Yeah Sundar needs to be on the tour!

Expected 3rd Test line up

Panchal
Aggarwal
Kohli
Rahane
Iyer
Saha
Jayant
Thakur
Saini
Ishant
Umesh
 
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sunilz

International Regular
Rahane has that #5 sewn up for the first game at the very least. Besides, does he become VC again in Rohit's absence, hence undroppable? What a mess.
Read on Twitter that there would be no VC for this series. ( chances are news can be false too)
 

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