1st Test: South Africa v India - Pre Match Discussion

[StriKe]

Wanderers groundsman says no devils in track

Wanderers groundsman Chris Scott confirmed there is nothing sinister about the surface he is preparing for Wednesday. "We always try to have pitches with good pace and bounce but I am not doing anything fancy," he told ESPNcricinfo, rubbishing the notion that when a subcontinent team visits the country, he is under instruction to go green. "It does not matter who is touring, I always follow the same formula and try to produce similar pitches to provide a good contest between bat and ball. I am just the stage manager. There's nothing I can do if the actors forget their words."

[MCcricket]

I firmly believe though we have been acutely handicapped because of the tour, schedule, curtailed games and other things, this team can win it, Shami, Zak, Umesh can compete or even better the SAFFERS, Kohli and co need to preform, give them a better schedule and tour and see what they can do, for sure Rohit, Virat, Pujara, Dhawan are the best talent not just in India but can score anywhere.

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[MCcricket]

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You can be sarcastic or cynical, maybe it is because of BCCI and Dhoni but this current lot is more confident, have better game to play on these tracks and they are as good if not better then the big four.

[Ghost Buster]

You can be sarcastic or cynical' date=' maybe it is because of BCCI and Dhoni but this current lot is more confident, have better game to play on these tracks and they are as good if not better then the big four.[/quote'] Hope it works that way

[ruchi49]

hope we will win

[StriKe]

stuart hess ‏@shockerhess 1m Smith confirms starting XI for tomorrow: Smith Petersen Amla Kallis De Villiers Duminy Du Plessis Philander Steyn Morkel Tahir #SAvInd

[Austin 3:!6]

RAIN :fishing:

[Pagalpanti]

only rain can save us from a 3 day loss. We're still gonna lose though, its really hard to expect anything different with little to no practice.

[ThePhenomenal1]

Here we go... cmon india show everyone you're good enough :D best of luck

[rkt.india]

Match will be plagued with rain.

[Lord]

Ishant and Jaddu will play :((

[diga]

stuart hess ‏@shockerhess 1m Smith confirms starting XI for tomorrow: Smith Petersen Amla Kallis De Villiers Du Plessis Philander Steyn Morkel Tahir #SAvInd

Tahir playing.. Thats good for us if we can survive Messrs Philander/Steyn/Morkel :((

[Lord]

stuart hess ‏@shockerhess 1m Smith confirms starting XI for tomorrow: Smith Petersen Amla Kallis De Villiers Du Plessis Philander Steyn Morkel Tahir #SAvInd

Faf ahead of Duminy:hmmm:

[Ghost Buster]

Ishant and Jaddu will play :((

I dont think jaddu will play, ishant will be there. If both jaddu & ashwin are included then better go fishing than watching this game.

[Lord]

I dont think jaddu will play' date=' ishant will be there. If both jaddu & ashwin are included then better go fishing than watching this game.[/quote'] its clear that Jaddu will play.otherwise they wouldnt have selected 3 spinners. Rahane is just a backup batsman

[Austin 3:!6]

Ishant and Jaddu will play :((

If Jaddu play I will support South Afrcia. This is ridiculous :headshake:

[Ghost Buster]

its clear that Jaddu will play.otherwise they wouldnt have selected 3 spinners. Rahane is just a backup batsman

You know the team picked has 17 guyz an extra guy has been accomodated(ojha) becoz of his performance against WI otherwise they usually send 16 guyz.

[diga]

Faf ahead of Duminy:hmmm:

Duminy is there in the X1 .. that list has only 10

[StriKe]

Duminy is there in the X1 .. that list has only 10

stuart hess ‏@shockerhess 22m It's been pointed out to me, that the SA team I tweeted earlier was a man short. Sorry. That isn't as a result of a stipulation by the BCCI stuart hess ‏@shockerhess 25m SA starting XI for 1st Test (that's ELEVEN): Smith, Petersen, Amla, Kallis, De Villiers, Duminy, Du Plessis, Philander, Steyn, Morkel, Tahir https://twitter.com/shockerhess