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

[NUFAN]

Hardik is my favourite Indian of all time.

 

[harsh.ag]

Pujara getting out was a huge blow wrt the timing. Pitch was flattening and he should have cashed in with a nice hundred.

Pandya calm the **** down!

 

[vcs]

Holy cow. This is compelling stuff. Hardik survives courtesy of De Kock.

 

[Shri]

Holy **** ****. Calm the **** down.

 

[Shri]

Pandya wafg.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Pujara getting out was a huge blow wrt the timing. Pitch was flattening and he should have cashed in with a nice hundred.

Pandya calm the **** down!

Yep. Very disappointing shot. He'd done all the hard work and seen off a tough session.

Could still turn out to be a useful innings since it's allowed Hardik to come in when it's been easier.

 

[StephenZA]

Need to take our opportunities.... still Test match cricket cant give the opposition a chance.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Maharaj to Pandya is exactly what we need. More of that please.

 

[vcs]

Steyn's back.

This Test match has been so good. India will probably fall away badly in the 2nd half, but so far it's lived up to the billing.

 

[Pratters]

ill put a huge poster of pandya in my room. what a guy.

 

[Shri]

Steyn is so great to watch. ate 130s/early 140s when the ball is not old but 150+ when it gets old. DIfferent fast bowler than most.

 

[vcs]

Yep. Very disappointing shot. He'd done all the hard work and seen off a tough session.

Could still turn out to be a useful innings since it's allowed Hardik to come in when it's been easier.

Yeah. Can't underestimate the value of blunting the attack by facing all those deliveries even if he didn't make runs. Some contributions are not reflected in the scorecard. I thought he was very good.

 

[Teja.]

Can’t watch aws. Is:

A. Pandya playing an ATG counterattacking innings?

B. SA bowling intensity has waned and are giving freebies?

C. Pandya is just batting at an extremely high variance batting style and been pretty lucky so far.

D. All of the above.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Uh oh steyn's getting reverse. Filthy cheating tampering ****s.

 

[Niall]

Good stuff this from these 2, Pandya definitely going to be important over next 12 months. The infuriating thing for India is if only they did not have 2 absolute rabbits to come,, another reason why Umesh should have been picked ahead of Bumrah.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Can’t watch was. Is:

A. Pandya playing an ATG counterattacking innings?

B. SA bowling intensity has waned and are giving freebies?

C. Pandya is just batting at an extremely high variance batting style and been pretty lucky so far.

D. All of the above.

A and B.

Morkel's bowled some crap and he's taken advantage. He looked atrocious against Steyn early on but since then it's been top class attacking batting.

 

[Pratters]

Uh oh steyn's getting reverse. Filthy cheating tampering ****s.

Pandya had asked Bhuvi to find out how the ball is shining in hindi a few overs back.

 

[vcs]

Can’t watch was. Is:

A. Pandya playing an ATG counterattacking innings?

B. SA bowling intensity has waned and are giving freebies?

C. Pandya is just batting at an extremely high variance batting style and been pretty lucky so far.

D. All of the above.

He was lucky with the missed stumping and probably swished at a few against the quicks as well, but not exceptionally lucky I'd say. He's played well.

Don't think SA have bowled that badly bar a couple down the legside, Pandya has hit 4s off some decent deliveries as well.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Pandya had asked Bhuvi to find out how the ball is shining in hindi a few overs back.

Yeah heard that. They've been trying to work out which way it'll swing pretty much all throughout this partnership. Good stuff.

 

[harsh.ag]

At the very ****ing least, hopefully a guilty Kohli will temper himself down and score some second innings runs. And hopefully a guilty Kohli won't **** up next game's selections.