Would this team have won against SA

[pujaraa]

Would this team have won in a 5-match series in SA? Shikar Dhawan (/Younis Khan) Murali Vijay Cheteshwar Pujara Virat Kohli *Misbah ul-Haq © Ajinkya Rahane +MS Dhoni Saeed Ajmal Junaid Khan Mohammed Shami Mohammad Irfan Others: Umesh Yadav, Ojha, Umar Gul, Asad Shafiq, ++? Indian batting has shown real potential in this series, and have a bright future ahead, while Pak always have pacy bowlers who should trouble batsmen. Weak spots here is defintely the WK and the one opener spots, but would have gone for Dhawan, because of x-factor. May as well add Lankans here. Sanga as WK, and Mahela as Opener. Would made a pretty strong lineup IMO 3-2B->

[gaurav92]

:facepalm:

[Detonator]

Chepujaradon ? BelieveInChe ? Ultimate Panuti ? :hmmm:

[NareshK]

Junaid averaged 48 and Irfan averaged 67 in SA and were ineffective when they played the test series. Dont know how they could have made a difference. Johnson, Siddle, Harris could have done well.

[kaptaan]

pak pacers are meant for limited overs cricket

[pujaraa]

Junaid averaged 48 and Irfan averaged 67 in SA and were ineffective when they played the test series. Dont know how they could have made a difference. Johnson, Siddle, Harris could have done well.

Junaid played just one match if I reckon correctly, and although you are right when I see Irfans stats, but I remember he troubled the Saffers quite abit in his first match atleast. Irfan>>Ishant

[kaptaan]

saeed ajmal was ineffective as well....he took 1 wkt in 2 matches each and 10 wkt (in capetown i guess)where the ball was turning square

[Vijy]

I don't think we should get into the whole would-this-makebelieve-team have won the series, etc. Then, we can extend this line of thought and ask if the Cricinfo India Alltime XI could have won it. And the answer to that, against this SA side, would be yes.

[pujaraa]

I don't think we should get into the whole would-this-makebelieve-team have won the series' date=' etc. Then, we can extend this line of thought and ask if the Cricinfo India Alltime XI could have won it. And the answer to that, against this SA side, would be yes.[/quote'] Ofcourse it isnt any reality in this, but just have fun:dance: Missing those World XI vs aussies days, to bad it happened just once:/

[Vijy]

Ofcourse it isnt any reality in this, but just have fun:dance: Missing those World XI vs aussies days, to bad it happened just once:/

Okay :) Then, to answer your question, against a full strength and firing SA my answer would be a 1-1 result. Kohli, Pujara, Sanga and Misbah would have done well but not the rest. The bowling however is the issue. If we had 5 bowlers with Herath and Ajmal, then we might have won 2-0. But, since only 1 of the 2 is around, I'd probably go with 1-1.