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Talk about cashing in. The Nagpur putch may have been slow on the first two days of the Test match between India and South Africa, but the powers of concentration that Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla showed were still worthy of praise. But will we see enough crumbling of the surface over the next few days for the Proteas to force a result? It is very dry, so don't rule it out...
Of course India suffered the sort of injury crisis that no team wants to go through before a Test match, but surely there was some way they could avoid handing a debut to Wriddhiman Saha of all people. Should they have perhaps picked an extra bowler and been more attacking, or was it just a muck-up when they selected their original squad?
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prophet 4 your information khalid latif was wrongly given out and therefore i conclude we would have won that match
hahaahaahha india getting mauled on their own turf by the number 1 team @ choking.cricket is surely a funny game
@sreeks - What are you on about ? Who keeps on worrying about it ? The ball is turning now on this pitch and SA made over 500 so how exactly does that translate to SA dont know how to play spin ?
India avoiding an innings defeat itself would be a great achievement , leave alone the DRAW scenario !!! And I dont know why people are worried about a spinning pitch in kolkatta !! It will be the same pitch for both the teams, right?? If SA doesnt know how to play spin, its their issue !!! Its not as if we are preparing an illegal pitch to win !! Such lame worries !!!
India will have to repeat a Napier.Thought Gambhir's gone and VVS isn't playing.Those 2 were the main men there.But God's still there and Vijay has the ability and with MS and Badri to come all is not lost for India.
Offstumps should have GPS on them so that Indian batsmen can locate them easily. Great stuff from Steyn and Morkel. ProudlyProtea, I dont see why India should not prepare wickets that turn from day 1 ball 1. If only we had good spinners to back that up.
somehow I get this feeling that by the end of 2011 WC, Australia would be firmly perched on the top of the rankings in both the formats and with long gap between them and all the other pretenders!!
...and that's why Steyn is the best test fast bowler currently in the world. Steyn was already world class 3 years ago with his pace and late out-swinging deliveries. But now he is showing variety I never knew he had. Could he rank amongst the great quicks of the past one day? We'll have to wait and see I guess.
The only difference now for an innings defeat for India is Tendulkar but if we get him out within the 1st hour tomorrow then the curator should start preparing a wicket that will turn from ball one in order for India to level the series,taking into consideration that they win the toss 1st...
Ahem.. wow.. lol Things didnt exactly go as I had hoped. Embarrassing really. I really hope we avoid an innings defeat. Not sure if that's gonna happen though. Keeping my fingers crossed.
@arrogantOZ... Dude .. England did much better than India?? The match is not yet over and the series is only 3 days old. Dont jump the guns !! And the batting is not to be blamed here because no one playing cricket in this era would have survived that hostile spell of steyn !!! This pitch is much livelier than that highways prepared for the Australian series against the newly demoted minnows Pakistan !! And why not prepare a spinning wicket in kolkatta if it is their strength ,JZB.?? Its the perfect thing to do ! But I dont think India will do that since Duminy is bowling better than Bhajji and Mishra !!!
It seems like Prince may get his wishes after all. If Bouch doesn't recover on time for the next test, Alviro will open, Prince will go down the order & AB will keep but I hope Bouch recovers on time, SA needs him a lot.
Posted 08/02/2010 @ 19:34
I'm afraid it'll be more of the same for India on day 4. The S.A quicks will be fresh and fired up. If Sachin goes early it'll be over by tea, if he sticks around S.A could win just before close of play. I hope so anyway. As far as a turner in the next test is concerned, India would be well within their rights to prepare any type of track they want. India's current situation however, has nothing to do with the wicket they are playing on, India's situation is the result of one of the finest spells of fast bowling you will ever see. If Steyn continues bowling like that, there is no wicket on earth that would help India.