Story India Visit to South Africa [c2007]

[voldemort]

India's tour of South Africa finalised

India will tour South Africa for three Tests and five ODIs in November this year. This was decided by the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) Tours Programmes and Fixtures Committee. India will also play a four-day warm-up game.

India in South Africa Fixtures

Nov 14 Arrival in Johannesburg
Nov 16 Tour match
Nov 19 1st ODI
Nov 22 2nd ODI
Nov 26 3rd ODI
Nov 29 4th ODI
Dec 3 5th ODI
Dec 7-10 Tour Match
Dec 15-19 1st Test
Dec 26-30 2nd Test
Jan 2-6 3rd Test



P.S. Today its June 1st

 

[surendar]

Good luck Voldy... I am sure this wud be as gud as ur C04 story! :happy

 

[gamerkid22]

Voldy is good story maker and his stories are realistic....this one will also rock ....All the best

 

[treva]

Good luck Voldermort.
This one should be great like your Cricket 04 one

 

[voldemort]

Squads Annonced, Jaffer, Zaheer and Kumble added to ODI squad, South Africa to Carry on Old Squad

Zaheer Khan, Anil Kumble and Wasim Jaffer have been included in India's one-day side for the tour of South Africa, the five-match series starting on November 19. As expected, the national selection committee did not plump for new blood but reposed faith in the tried and tested while picking the 16-man squad.

India One-day squad

Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid (capt), Wasim Jaffer, Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Mongia, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), Irfan Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Zaheer Khan, Anil Kumble, S Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh, Munaf Patel, Ajit Agarkar

South Africa have retained the 14-man squad that lost the Champions Trophy semi-final for the first of the five one-dayers against India. Graeme Smith, under fire for indifferent form and tactics, will continue as the skipper.

South Africa One-day squad

Graeme Smith (captain), Loots Bosman, Jacques Kallis, Herschelle Gibbs, AB de Villiers, Mark Boucher, Justin Kemp, Shaun Pollock, Robin Peterson, Andre Nel, Makhaya Ntini, Boeta Dippenaar, Andrew Hall, Charl Langeveldt.

P.S. Now its November 9th

 

[gamerkid22]

wow good balanced teams now ...but its nice when we go from june 1st to nov 9th inside 45 min ....waiting for the match now

 

[surendar]

Good to see Zaheer n Kumble in squad! It wud be better to play with Spin twins with three pacers and 6 batsmen! Good Luck South Africa

 

[Left_Hander]

Good luck with the story Voldemort. Should be a closely contested series this

 

[voldemort]

Lineups for First Warm-up Match Announced

Indian Line-up:

W Jaffer
SR Tendulkar
M Kaif
R Dravid (c)
MS Dhoni (wk)
SK Raina
D Mongia
IK Pathan
A Kumble
Z Khan
S Sreesanth

Great change from the Champions Trophy Lineup, Jaffer opening the lineup instead of injured Sehwag, Kaif at 3, Dinesh Mongia replacing Yuvraj Singh, and Zaheer Khan and Sreesanth to bowl.

Rest Of South Africa Line-up:

MN van Wyk (wk)
AN Petersen
HM Amla
ND McKenzie
AG Prince (c)
JA Rudolph
JJ van der Wath
R Telemachus
AC Thomas
DW Steyn
T Tshabalala

Ashwell Prince will lead the Rest of South Africa team against India.

P.S. Its 15th today

 

[surendar]

Hope India play some good cricket in SA atleast here... ( disappointed with real match of 91 )!

This shd be a good practice game for India but the quality of SA's bowling would be more aggressive!

 

[gamerkid22]

This is realistic ...Sehwag out due to injury ....going with 1 spinner on SA pitches is the wisest thing to do .

 

[surendar]

going with 1 spinner on SA pitches is the wisest thing to do .

nah.... Kumble n Bhaji avgerages around 30 abroad with econmy of 4.2 and 3.5 which is far more bettr than fast bowlers! I m not saying as my view, Its Khris Srikanth's view on TV yestday... lol!

Also Unlucky Munaf to miss the practice game! But lets see if Zaheer does something extra

 

[mehkar]

cannt wait for it mate

 

[gamerkid22]

Its Khris Srikanth's view on TV yestday... lol!

Srikanth's view on which channel ?

 

[PhilD123]

Nice start, should be interesting to see whether India fare better in this tour than currently in real life.