The Dark Horse Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 "India have played most of their games at home so it'll be interesting to see how they go in South Africa. It's a total different ball game here. We're going to have to wait and see once they pass the first Test match," said Philander in a media interaction here. https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/m.timesofindia.com/sports/cricket/india-in-south-africa/philander-questions-indias-preparedness-for-test-series/amp_articleshow/62355522.cms Let the games begin GoldenSun 1 Link to comment
Cricketics Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 And Philander has never won a test match against India without Steyn in the team. Frustrated and Turning_track 2 Link to comment
Laaloo Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 (edited) You can only play whats in the schedule. Edited January 3, 2018 by Laaloo beetle 1 Link to comment
Popular Post speedheat Posted January 3, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2018 OK come to India King Tendulkar, Laaloo, beetle and 11 others 1 13 Link to comment
chewy Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 SA and their teletubbies like pre-game talk beetle 1 Link to comment
Shunya Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Damn... Totally charged up for this series I am. Start it already. Link to comment
King Tendulkar Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Can’t wait for this . Literally foaming at mouth waiting for this Link to comment
Shamim.Miah Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Why don't ICC introduce a rule where teams are not allowed to play more than 60% of the matches home? preferable balance would be 50% home 50% away, or impose a 60% max home matches rule. Teams like India/Australia/South Africa if they play most of their matches home, they will win most comfortably. Hence, most of the stats will be favoured towards the home teams, be it personal stats or national records. Rasgulla and beetle 2 Link to comment
veer Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Exactly... I am looking forward to our awesome pace bowling but expecting below par batting Link to comment
adi B Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Philtrundlerer opens his mouth every time there's a home series,don't hear much from him when they travel away from home New guy, beetle, Mosher and 4 others 7 Link to comment
Lannister Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 5 hours ago, Shamim.Miah said: Why don't ICC introduce a rule where teams are not allowed to play more than 60% of the matches home? preferable balance would be 50% home 50% away, or impose a 60% max home matches rule. We will play more than 80% of the games overseas in the next year. That's like Bangladesh cricket's entire history. Link to comment
beetle Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 9 hours ago, chewy said: SA and their teletubbies like pre-game talk They are not like aussies.... This is like tickling instead of sledging. Link to comment
Gollum Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 9 hours ago, Shamim.Miah said: Why don't ICC introduce a rule where teams are not allowed to play more than 60% of the matches home? preferable balance would be 50% home 50% away, or impose a 60% max home matches rule. Teams like India/Australia/South Africa if they play most of their matches home, they will win most comfortably. Hence, most of the stats will be favoured towards the home teams, be it personal stats or national records. India play around 60% of their games overseas. We play equal no of games home and away with Aus, Eng, SA, NZ and very sparingly invite teams like Lanka, WI, Bangladesh...so more overseas tests for us. Check the stats of SRT, Dravid, Ganguly, all of them have played more away matches than home. adi B 1 Link to comment
Sandeep99 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Charged up! Matches in South Africa are always fun to watch! Wish we had a 4 match series.. Mosher 1 Link to comment
jf1gp_1 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 If we bat first tomorrow we will be all out by tea around the same time we will see threads on how we are overrated or we have crap batsman and how dhoni virat have destroyed india cricket saik and Shunya 2 Link to comment
New guy Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 9 minutes ago, jf1gp_1 said: If we bat first tomorrow we will be all out by tea around the same time we will see threads on how we are overrated or we have crap batsman and how dhoni virat have destroyed india cricket This is going to be a very dry pitch because of lack of water. Link to comment
adi B Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 3 hours ago, Gollum said: India play around 60% of their games overseas. We play equal no of games home and away with Aus, Eng, SA, NZ and very sparingly invite teams like Lanka, WI, Bangladesh...so more overseas tests for us. Check the stats of SRT, Dravid, Ganguly, all of them have played more away matches than home. Good point raised. These guys played around 60% matches away from home compared to say English players who play 60% at home and boost their record Link to comment
Shamim.Miah Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 7 hours ago, Lannister said: We will play more than 80% of the games overseas in the next year. That's like Bangladesh cricket's entire history. Yes. That’s when you will find out how strong India really is. But 80% that’s not a good balance. I think ICC look into a more balanced home and away ratio for teams, so we can get a clear idea of how good the teams are. Link to comment
Shamim.Miah Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 8 minutes ago, adi B said: Good point raised. These guys played around 60% matches away from home compared to say English players who play 60% at home and boost their record Playing away from home against the likes of Sri Lanka and thrashing them don’t give a clear picture. The 40% of the matches India played away from home includes mostly matches against Sri Lanka. Link to comment
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