India have played most of their games at home : Philander

[The Dark Horse]

"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

 

 

 

[Gollum]

Fun begins.

[Cricketics]

And Philander has never won a test match against India without Steyn in the team.

 

[Laaloo]

You can only play whats in the schedule. 

Edited January 3, 2018 by Laaloo

[speedheat]

OK come to India 

[chewy]

SA and their teletubbies like pre-game talk   

[Shunya]

Damn... Totally charged up for this series I am. Start it already.

[King Tendulkar]

Can’t wait for this . Literally foaming at mouth waiting for this 

[Shamim.Miah]

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.

[veer]

Exactly... I am looking forward to our awesome pace bowling but expecting below par batting

[adi B]

Philtrundlerer opens his mouth every time there's a home series,don't hear much from him when they travel away from home 

[Lannister]

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. 

[beetle]

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.

[Gollum]

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. 

[Sandeep99]

Charged up! Matches in South Africa are always fun to watch! Wish we had a 4 match series..

[jf1gp_1]

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

[New guy]

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. 

[adi B]

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 

[Shamim.Miah]

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. 

[Shamim.Miah]

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.