INDIA in SOUTH AFRICA ¤ NOV 13-JAN 14

[koushik]

December 2 - India arrive
in South Africa
December 5 - 1st ODI,
Johannesburg
December 8 - 2nd ODI,
Durban
December 11 - 3rd ODI,
Centurion
December 14-15 - Two-
day match, Benoni
December 18-22 - 1st
Test, Johannesburg
December 26-30 - 2nd
Test, Durban
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[Yameen]

7 ODIs??? Would have preferred to have seen 4 tests at least especially with these teams!

[prtikul]

White wash is inevitable for us in Tests. Zero expectations from this squad.

[Gowza]

hoping rilee R gets a call up for the shorter formats off the back of his ton against Aus A. especially since SA have been quite poor in ODIs of late.

[koushik]

BCCI May minimise this tour to 2 Test,3 ODI,1 T20. As WI Will Tour India in Nov & India will tour NZ From Jan 19

[Gowza]

at least there aren't 7 ODIs, that's too many, never liked those 7 match ODI series.

[NoName]

Originally Posted by koushik
BCCI May minimise this tour to 2 Test,3 ODI,2 T20. As WI Will Tour India In November.

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Awfully short tour, considering a clash between two titans.

[koushik]

@ESPNcricinfo: India's SA
tour could be cut further
by a tri-series involving
India, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka

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[koushik]

According to reports, the
president for the Board of
Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI), N Srinivasan
and secretary Sanjay
Patel met Cricket South
Africa (CSA) president
Chris Nenzani on the
sidelines of the ICC board
meeting in London and
have agreed for a two-
Test and three-ODI series
in December, despite no
formal statements
statements regarding the
same.

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[koushik]

BCCI & CSA Announced schedule today.india with out Dravid+sachin+vvs on a forgien tour.

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[koushik]

Test team-
Dhawan,Vijay,Pujara,Kohli,Rohit,
Ajinkya,Dhoni,
Ashwin,Bhuvi,Shami,Zak,Rayudu,
Yadav,Saha,
Ishant,Ojha,Jadeja
India's ODI squad:
Dhawan,Raina,Kohli,Rohit,Ajinkya,
Dhoni,Yuvi,Ashwin,Bhuvi,Shami,Zaheer
,Rayudu,Yadav,Saha,
Ishant,Mohit,Jadeja

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[Gowza]

test team imo should be:

1 dhawan
2 vijay
3 pujara
4 kohli
5 rahane
6 sharma
7 dhoni
8 ashwin
9 kumar
10 shami
11 zaheer

could possibly play rahane as opener instead of vijay and play jadeja but the batting looks a bit weak with that line-up.

[koushik]

Originally Posted by Gowza
test team imo should be:

1 dhawan
2 vijay
3 pujara
4 kohli
5 rahane
6 sharma
7 dhoni
8 ashwin
9 kumar
10 shami
11 zaheer

could possibly play rahane as opener instead of vijay and play jadeja but the batting looks a bit weak with that line-up.

rohit should bat @ 5 & rahane @ 6

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[Tiger444]

Sad to see this being only a 2 Test, 3 ODI tour. It's also sad that South Africa gets less matches compared to the likes of India, England, and Australia despite being the much better Test team.

[Jadukor]

Should be a good test for the young Indian batting order. I am interested to see how Kohli performs on South African pitches.

[Tiger444]

Originally Posted by Jadukor
Should be a good test for the young Indian batting order. I am interested to see how Kohli performs on South African pitches.

Same here. I think Kohli will do well in ODIs. Not so sure for Tests though. Same goes for their Test team. They got hammered against England and Australia. As a matter of fact we did better than India did against England since we beat them in an ODI and we showed better fight in Tests. So India needs to prove themselves away from home.

[Gowza]

Originally Posted by koushik
rohit should bat @ 5 & rahane @ 6

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thought about that, the reason i put rahane at 5 is because he's more of a top order batsman and rohit has been doing tremendously well at #6 since his inclusion so why not keep rohit at 6 since he's doing well and put rahane at 5?

[koushik]

Dhawan will exude
confidence from his
splendid 'A' tour to South
Africa in August where he
amassed a staggering
410 from 4 matches at an
average of 102 in the tri-
series also involving
Australia 'A'. The
highlight of the tour was
Dhawan's sensational
150-ball 248 against
South Africa 'A' in
Pretoria.

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[koushik]

1st Time Shikar Dhawan Enter In Top 10 of ODI Batting Ranking.he is no 9

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[koushik]

India have never won a
bilateral series in South
Africa. Of the 25 ODIs they
have played against South
Africa here, they have
won just five. India will
look to improve on that
dismal record when they
take on South Africa today
at 5:00 pm IST. AB de
Villiers doesn't think India

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[koushik]

South Africa, who have
played 67 ODIs against
India so far, have won 40
times and lost 25 games
while two matches
yielded no results. This
puts the Proteas' win
percentage against India
at 59.70 while it gets
even better for South
Africa at home. With 19
wins and 5 losses out of
the 25 games at home
against India, South
Africa's win percentage is
an impressive 76.

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[koushik]

South Africa ODI Team:
Graeme Smith, Quinton
de Kock(w), Hashim Amla,
Jacques Kallis, AB de
Villiers(c), Jean-Paul
Duminy, David Miller,
Ryan McLaren, Dale Steyn,
Morne Morkel, Imran
Tahir, Wayne Parnell,
Vernon Philander,
Lonwabo Tsotsobe

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[Nadim]

happy to see change of stance and trigger movement working for kock. a fine talent who is only gonna get better by learning from Amla ND CO.

[koushik]

Indian bowling exposing.
Zaher is better than mohit

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[Jadukor]

pitch is good... so game is still on once Kohli gets going