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I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from 1st match. No practice match prior. Facing Steyn et al without practice is not easy. England fell like moths to the flame against Mitchell Johnson. Lets see what happens in Tests. Where ayuviand Raina wont use up two spots.
Its early days yet and the Indian batting line up will bounce back.
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South Africa v India, 2nd ODI, Durban
South Africa might have scared India batsmen, says Steyn
Sidharth Monga in Durban
December 7, 2013
Dale Steyn has carried on from where he left off in Johannesburg. This time, though, with words. After bowling a sensational spell of seam and swing against India in the series opener, Steyn has said some of the Indian batsmen were frightened, and that their bowling needs an injection of pace if they are to bother South Africa. India were thrashed by 141 runs at the Wanderers on Thursday, a spicy pitch awaits them at Kingsmead, and Steyn feels there might already be scars that will go beyond the first ODI.
“I would say so,” Steyn said when asked if South Africa’s bowlers might have frightened the Indian batsmen enough to last them through the remainder of the tour. "I would definitely say so. I didn’t see many of our guys walking off the field with bloody fingers or ice packs on ribs, so it definitely was a wake-up call for the Indians. It’s not Mumbai where the ball doesn’t get higher than the stumps. It’s going to be hard to play here.
“But they are not the No. 1 ODI side in the world for no reason. As MS [Dhoni] said in his pre-match [press conference], they have toured the world and have come to South Africa a couple of times, so maybe give them a week or two, one or two more games and they will start getting used to it before the Test matches. But [it was] definitely an eye-opener for them. Because it didn’t look like that when they were bowling to us.”
While Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli toughed it out against Steyn and the new balls, Steyn was not quite impressed with what followed in the middle order. “I think our intensity the other night really blew them away,” Steyn said after the mandatory disclaimer that he expected the visiting batsmen to come back hard. “I think we also showed them that they have a weakness in the middle order. [Suresh] Raina, [R] Ashwin, Yuvraj [Singh], other batters in the end, they didn’t really look like they wanted to get in line. So hopefully we can exploit that a little bit more. But they have batters who can play and score. Shikhar’s [Dhawan] another guy who can really bat. So we are prepared for that too. Everyone is a target, to be honest with you.”
Steyn’s summation of Indian bowling wasn’t flattering either. When asked what advice he would give to the Indians, he said, "I am really not going to give them any advice, you know. I think they are doing fine.
"If you really want to look at it though, with the ball they lack someone who can really bowl with pace up there. They need that one guy there bowling so. They have got Ishant [Sharma] sitting on the sides, he is the one guy that can bowl over 140kmph. And we have got really good batters like [Jacques] Kallis, [Hashim] Amla, [Quinton] de Kock, [AB] de Villiers in some good space now. I think you need guys who can spin the ball a mile or can bowl quickly.
“Wanderers didn’t offer the turn the other night that Ashwin and [Ravindra] Jadeja could have got, but it did offer something off the deck and pace, and they didn’t have that the other night. We did have it so we kind of blew them away with that. Morne [Morkel] bowled really quickly, [Ryan] McLaren bowled with good pace, and in good areas, backed up by Wayne [Parnell], myself and Lonwabo [Tsotsobe]. So if you don’t have that then you will be struggling in South Africa.”
Conditions underfoot promise much of the same. Steyn said he couldn’t tell the pitch from the outfield when he had a look at it from the balcony. However, there might be some respite for India because Kingsmead has lost a bit of its pace over the years. “Conditions are always different here in Durban,” Steyn said. “Especially different from Johannesburg. Bit more bounce in Jo’burg. This wicket has seemed to have got a little bit flatter, a bit slower over the years.”
Steyn, though, was a little circumspect about what lay overhead - it has been overcast in Durban since the teams arrived on Friday. “Hopefully we can get a game because there is a lot of rain around here in Durban,” Steyn said. “We discussed it in the morning. We could go out there for 20 overs each, which is a bare minimum and still constitutes as a one-day international. So if there is a bit of rain around, we have to be prepared to face whatever comes.”
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India won the toss and elected to field .. Didn’t they teach lesson from first ODI 
SA is not comfortable in chasing but i think India is good in chasing, so that’s why 
South Africa 47/0 (8.4/49 ov)
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SA 58/0 (10 overs)
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150/0 (126.4) another 150 opening stand
Amla fastest to reach 4000 in ODIs, 
this is his 81st innings, Viv Richards did it in 88 inns, Kohli 93, Greenidge 96
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The last time a pair of openers put on a 100-run stand in Durban was in 2002 when Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden scored 170
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It seems there is nothing in pitch and Indian’s ll beat them easily
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SA 173/0 (32 overs)
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180/0 (33 overs) only 15 4s but RR 5.45
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de Kock, another ton
33.1
I Sharma to de Kock, 1 run, he gets there with a dab to midwicket, and he gets to his third century in ODIs.. All have come in a month. The youngster has found his wheels.
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Sharma is doing nice bowling today so far
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Only two SA openers have hit back-to-back ODI hundreds before Kock today, Amla against Zim in 2010, and Gibbs hit three consecutive hundreds in 2002, against Bangla, India and Kenya
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Sam: “@Garvin, Saying deKock has a bright future because he scored two centuries against Indian toothless attack on SA pitches is like saying Mohit Sharma has a bright future because he bowled excellent in IPL…”
Josh Strauss: “@Sam - You mean the toothless bowling attack of the number 1 ranked ODI team? You also mean the same Quinton de Kock that scored a century against Pakistan? So who do you propose he needs to score a century against before you will admit that he has a bright future?”
they are going to cry 
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194/1 (35.1 over)
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35.1
Ashwin to de Kock, OUT, oh it ends in an anti-climactic fashion! It was a full delivery and he connected well with his sweep, but de Kock is disappointed as he hits it straight to the man at square leg. End of another effortless innings
**Q de Kock c RG Sharma b Ashwin 106 (125m 118b 9x4 0x6) SR: 89.83 **
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it seems India is back in game .... Power play cost SA 2 wkt so far
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36.2
Jadeja to de Villiers, OUT
**AB de Villiers st †Dhoni b Jadeja 3 (4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 75.00 **
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RR is now very slow and Amla remembering me Sachin, just 2 runs away from his ton :D
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nice fight back by India
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43.3
Mohammed Shami to Amla, OUT, oh another wicket from nowhere from India! Just like de Kock was dismissed against the run of play, now Amla get a feather to this slower bouncer en route to the gloves of Dhoni. He was looking to slap it through off, but the extra tennis-ball type bounce probably messed up with the timing of his bat swing..
**HM Amla c †Dhoni b Mohammed Shami 100 (160m 117b 8x4 0x6) SR: 85.47 **
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234/4 (44 overs) ...India is dominating now
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43.6
Mohammed Shami to Miller, OUT
**DA Miller lbw b Mohammed Shami 0 (3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00 **
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280/6 (49 overs)
India has done good in last 15 overs except last over (20 runs)
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48.6
Yadav to Philander, FOUR, length delivery wide outside off, there is not edge on this one, it's off the middle and over mid-off for a one bounce four
48.5
Yadav to Philander, FOUR, he gives it a big swing, and gets a thick inside edge that beats the deep backward square leg fielder
48.4
Yadav to Philander, FOUR, lucky runs, but Philander won't mind! He was making room and gets a bottom edge past the keeper for a boundary
48.3
Yadav to McLaren, 1 run, high full toss wide outside off and McLaren slices it over the infield to pick up a single
48.2
Yadav to McLaren, SIX, whoa! Length deilvery on the pads and McLaren swings it over square leg with awesome power! Lands in the same stands where once Yuvraj Singh hit Brett Lee during a T20 semi-final
48.1
Yadav to Philander, 1 run, bowls a slower delivery outside off that is dragged to deep midwicket by Philander
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Flat track bully gone
Kohli lol