Indian tour of South Africa, December-January 2010/11

[TruSachFan]

And now apparently, Sreesanth injured his right foot . Team management saying it's not serious. WTF? Don't tell me we're gonna field an attack of Ishant, Unadkat, Mithun and Harbhajan on our most important series in years.

UPDATE: Sreesanth bowled in the nets today and is fit to play. ZaK is a game time decision.

 

[Cricketman]

Mithun isn't even on tour is he? I am pretty confident he can do better than Undakant. Yadav...i'm not too sure about him.

 

[War]

Only off late, like post 2000s. Before that they were traditionally known for green tops.

Pakistan cricket in general has gone down the crapper post 2000....

Nah throughout history PAK pitches where always flat. What made the likes of Sarfraz, Imran, Wasim, Waqar great was the innovation of PAK bowlers of learning to bowl reverse swing on those flat pitches.

 

[shravi]

Wow, thats literally the most I've ever seen a ball swing..

 

[ferg512]

Oh yeah I forgot about this one, I saw this ages ago and that is crazy as well. I hope that guy who took the 8-10 doesn't get ruined by the IPL.

 

[playkid12]

I blame a few things, mostly the pitches and ...........Sachin Tendulkar.

Every Indian I have ever met here in club cricket is only obsessed with batting. They never want to field or bowl, when their batting is finished, they make excuses and go home.

All this Sachin love over the last 2 decades has basically ruining fast bowling. No kids want to bowl, they all want to be Sachin.

Instead of blaming Sachin, why don't you blame the severe lack of good Indian bowlers since the beginning of time. If India had produced a decent bowler before Tendulkar or Gavaskar or any decent Indian batsman, it would've been a different story. Even Kapil Dev, who was a good bowler too, is more known in India for his ferocious hitting than his bowling. It has to do with the whole using of spinners constantly and the negative tactics of the older generations of Indians players. If India tried to produce decent fast bowlers instead of spinners in their history, they wouldn't have this problem.

Nothing wrong with spinners, of course. But India lacks that today too since they're finally realizing that fast bowling is important. So they're stuck in this middle zone of no good fast bowlers aside from Khan and no good spinners (aside from Harbhajan, who's been on the decline for quite some time in his bowling).

 

[deepuparayil]

Picking Raina over Pujara for the 1st test in SA's fast and bouncy wickets with his weakness against short ball gonna cost us very much.

 

[AkshayS]

^Well That is sure to happen.
Dhoni need to make some runs on this tour in pressure assuming he have to face many critical situations here, Also I don't think Zak will play the first match. He bowled only some 40 deliveries in 2 days.

 

[AbhishekS]

Picking Raina over Pujara for the 1st test in SA's fast and bouncy wickets with his weakness against short ball gonna cost us very much.

Of course it will. We guys need to give Pujara more opportunities. He actually did a very good job in the only test match he has played. And now with the failure of Raina in the series against New Zealand, Pujara should play in at least one match out of the three.

 

[angryangy]

Pretty crazy few days coming up. 3rd Test at Perth from 230 GMT and the 1st Test at Centurion from 830 GMT. Two of the biggest contests in cricket, played almost back to back. Over 13 hours of play each day.

 

[sami ullah khan]

Yeah Tomorrow is going to be such a good cricketing day and I have two holidays to make it even better

 

[AkshayS]

Yeah Tomorrow is going to be such a good cricketing day and I have two holidays to make it even better

next 5 days infact.
I'm desperate to see India winning for strengthening their position and taking the lead while australia winning for an interesting Ashes.

 

[AbhishekS]

OMG! I never knew something of this sort ever happened. Amazing!

 

[yashwanth kumar]

Indian batting is good but its bowling which they should work on

 

[deepuparayil]

Indian batting is good but its bowling which they should work on

No man everything going to be exact opposite in SA. Our bowlers are gonna do really well and our batsmen are going to be struggling. SA pitches has great carry, so the reaction time of our batsmen needed to be a lot faster than usual.
Also they need to be worry about the higher bounce they are unfamiliar with.

If our batsmen adapt to the conditions well,we are surely gonna win.