South Africa tour of India

7 wickets on day 5 in India will be a piece of cake for Harbhajan and Mishra if the weather holds up.  Mother nature is all SA can really on now I think.

It will have to be one special innings from either ABD or JPD apart from Amla of coarse if Saffers are to save this one. Sehwag wont be a bad option on this track on day 5. The weather gods are also in favor of the hosts.

Correct. As I understand it, it's the home board that has the final say as they have to pay for the technology.

i had always a feeling that they will give up it at last moment. They deservered to draw it beacause of their efforts. India played well. Their batting was superb. I dont think they bowled well. Their main striker was not there today and they had big problems against the tailenders. It was all left to Bhajji and he did well. SA will ruin the missed chance in the first Innings. They gifted this match to India.

i think they missed also Boucher in this game.

         I think enitre SA team is out of form except Kallis and Amala, otherwise how could they lose test match against India which has one of the worst bowling attacks, that too with only 3 bowlers (Zaheer was out) in fourth innings.

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 19 February 2010 at 3:04am

Wish Dravid could ahve been a part of this series.

But it was a pretty intense series and in my opinion, the pitches weren't that bad.

MalhotraRaj84 - I don't get you random hating. SA were clearly the better team in this series. 1st match, SA batting was very good and their bowling/fielding was fantastic. The Indians with the lack of Laxman and Dravid and lack of contribution from most players + bad bowling let them down.
2nd Test - Same teams again with the exception of the inclusion of Laxman. SA had the same bowlers and if Zaheer could get wickets and keep runs down, then so could Steyn but he didn't. Harbhajan has been due for a while and he is good at Eden Gardens, so the SA batsmen should have been prepared. And its Kallis' fault that he didn't play well in the last Test, don't blame it on luck. You can't have only luck. The Indian batsmen and bowlers were better in this game.

Plus you just said the Indians did well to return from a bad performance in the 1st Test and now you're saying that the bowlers are horrible! Stick to one argument please.

Edited by DRAVID FAN - 18 February 2010 at 9:38pm

Sanjay Manjrekar also aknowledged that they won because of their Batting. 4 centuries in an Innings are matchwinning. Without the Partnership of Dhoni and Laxman India couldn't win this match even if Zaheer was fit.
I never told that indian Bowling is bad. you have to exept that India wins matches more often because of their batting rather than bowling. You can say they have the best batting line up but but the bowling is not the best. Zaheer and Bhajji are excellent but this is all what they have.
I think Indian bowling will do better on SA Pitches but their batting could fail again.

Aussie says hi?  Maybe in Aussie but not in India at the moment.

i didn't hear that but i beleave them if they told it.
For your information i like Rohit Sharma's batting skills

What a match! Was hoping Kallis got his hundred and Parnell got his fifty but that would have given them victory. Didn't want that!

What a show by Steyn and Parnell. It almost looked like they weren't even trying. Six after six, four after four and Parnell finishes with a batting average of 60! Clearly the best in the world at the moment!

Tendulkars save in the penultimate ball can be controversial and even after a whole bunch of replays and different camera angles, the third umpire wasn't too sure but gave the benefit of doubt to the Indians. If that was a four, the match would have been tie!

Yes and it was a clear four horrible umpiring really cause them the game.

It is a long way to go matey - a loft of injury rounds to come with the IPL.

And Amla has a terrific one day record as well - his strike rate is up there with the very best and so is his average. He is just dropped on the perception of being a test player. He looks like a potential future captain for the Proteas - if only was Smith a bit older, Amla would surely have got his chance.

Just awesome Sachin, the first man to make 200 in an ODI - it is fitting that he should hold the record in my  opinion