After already clinching the series plate, South Africa is not going to sit on their personal glory and so are determined to full the Along side20 series in their unique style, according to batsman David Miller. Other notable movers include Indians Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who has moved up four places to 31st and Harbhajan Singh (up two to 47th), while there were career-high gains for South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada (up 40 to 68th) and Raina (up 12 to 88th).
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“The team that goes on to win the World T20, you will see that their No. 6 batsman could be a very crucial player”. The boys are also disappointing about it. We would have liked to have a full game here. Fortunately, there are no WorldT20 games scheduled in Cuttack which witnessed crowd trouble during the second match.
“I’m disappointed with the result as anybody would be”.
Ravi Shastri in his recent interview has said, “That will be the attempt to bat Dhoni up the order, no inquiry regarding that”.
South Africa, in fact, have played 82 games so far, just behind Pakistan’s 92 and New Zealand’s 83 appearances. “We might have lost the series but I treat it as a good exposure in the build up of the World Cup”, Shastri told media persons here.
“We haven’t been playing, one year down the line after playing against England we have only played two matches because there is so much of other cricket happening”, he said.
“It’s a young team, we’re still figuring out on what will be our best combination, the best way forward”. But we have not played too many T20 games since last year’s World T20.
The ODI series will be a fresh start for both the teams as its a very different format compared to T20, India needs to work hard on its opening pair and the bowling department needs and edge with comparision to thier counter part bowling attack with Steyn coming back to action.
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The series against India will also mark the an intense period for Australia’s T20 cricketers with a series in South Africa to precede the World T20 tournament in India in March and April.
