Re: South Africa - India Test Series Thread
did you see the highlights of the whole series ? for all 3 test matches, pitches were extremely bouncy. that is a fact. 2nd test match and then 3rd test match, wickets were so bouncy and awkward that michael holding had to say many times that these wickets are not fair to batsmen but indian managed well or much better than south africans expected and then won the 3rd test match comprehensively on a pitch which was so bad that south africans wanted to abandon but indians refused. and a full strength SA test squad played all 3 test matches
ODI pitches were also typical SA pitches with bounce…just because SA could not understand indian finger spinners didn’t mean that those tracks were spin tracks. they were not. I saw highlights of every game. and full SA team played pretty much all ODIs. morkel, philander, rabada, amla, AB, quinton de kock, duminy, imran tahir all played. now if this is not a complete SA team, i dont know which squad will be. AB didnt play first 3 ODIs but when he returned, result was still the same SA still lost big. SA was beaten so badly in ODIs that it was not even a joke. SA commentators were shocked.
T20s are being played all over the world by including new players. just check Australia and england t-20 squads. completely new players and different from ODI and test match squads. you wont recognize more than 2 players. SA did the same but that doesn’t mean that they had weaker squads for test matches and for ODIs.
just my 2 cents. the fact is that indian cricket is on rise and managed this SA tour really well. that is all.