***Official*** South Africa in India 2015

[cnerd123]

Crunch game time

No surprise SA choose to bat winning the toss. And it seems like Miller has been promoted to open - desperate ploy to get him into form? He's been a liability in the middle order for a while now. Does this mean everyone else gets dropped down one slot? ABDV may be too low down at 6.

Yadav dropped for Mishra, so India are in with 3 spinners. Good call IMO, given Yadav hasn't looked good and Mishra bowled so well in the first ODI. Bhajji, Axar, Bhuvi and Mohit have all bowled well too, so this is a decent attack overall.

 

[Daemon]

Why isn't Amla opening?

 

[Arjun]

There's no point dismantling a strong top six just for Rahane. If he can't cope with the role given to him, let a better ODI batsman (Kedar, Manoj, Gurkeerat) step up.

 

[Stapel]

Quite a first over. All 6 balls attacking the stumps. All deliveries met the wood of the bat. Yet, no runs!

 

[Arjun]

Umesh dropped because he hasn't been consistent. Mohit persisted with despite not being any good.

 

[cnerd123]

Umesh dropped because he hasn't been consistent. Mohit persisted with despite not being any good.

Disagree. Mohit is gun. Decent pace, moves the ball, good control, killer slower ball. Decent in the field too. I'd have him as a regular in the ODI side personally. I'd actually like to see him get a shot in Tests too.

 

[cnerd123]

'Shot Yaaar' is officially a commentary box meme now.

 

[Daemon]

Need a new plan, they've caught on pretty quickly that we're just targetting the stumps.

 

[cnerd123]

Hasn't been bad bowling so far. Just lots of value for shots here - good batting track, fast outfied.

 

[ankitj]

How many times has Gavaskar told the "no matter what number you bat man" joke in his lifetime?

 

[Daemon]

**** me, not even 30 minutes in and gavaskar's brought out his jamaican accent

 

[Daemon]

Hasn't been bad bowling so far. Just lots of value for shots here - good batting track, fast outfied.

Yeah, looks like there's going to be big scores today. Not sure if taking the pace off it will work here either because it's just coming on so nicely.

 

[cnerd123]

Reckon SA are gonna get 320-330 unless the spinners somehow get a lot of purchase. And going off this Bhajji over, that seems unlikely.

 

[Stapel]

Reckon SA are gonna get 320-330 unless the spinners somehow get a lot of purchase. And going off this Bhajji over, that seems unlikely.

From 60/0 after 10 overs, 325 seems modest.

 

[cnerd123]

Mishra got some turn.

Bad ball right after tho.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Rahane gun catcher

 

[cnerd123]

Lovely catch.

Decent ball but loose shot from Miller.

 

[cnerd123]

Lovely from Mishra. Odd bad ball aside, he is looking good here.

 

[Daemon]

fmd, Dhoni took the bails off so quickly it looked like de Kock was bowled

 

[Black_Warrior]

Not sure about the idea of Miller opening. He is good for 30-40 runs which might be far more handy at number 6 than it is as an opener.