If South Africa is banking on its pace attack, India is looking to its spin offensive led by Ravichandran Ashwin to pose a challenge for South Africa, which is known to adjust well to conditions around the world. I thought Imran Tahir’s over first of all changed the game on its head and gave us a chance when we were out of it. The youngster (Rabada) is proving to be a handful and he has a bright future. Four out of five games here have been won by the team batting second. “There are plenty of things to learn”, Shastri said. But, it will be interesting if they would be able to turn the one-day series in favor of their nation or not.
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On the face of it, India appear to have a well-balanced side but it will have anything but easy against the South Africans, who are high on confidence after an emphatic T20 series win. “It was a good bowling performance by the team to pull it back”.
The African team’s skipper was ably supported by Farhaan Behardien, whose little cameo of 35 not out off 19 balls propelled South Africa to a formidable total.
Once Ashwin was unable to bowl, Dhoni suddenly was short of ideas. With a tough Test series against India looming and another one against England around the corner, South Africa might be tempted to stick with their second-string bowling squad to preserve their senior men. It is crucial that who is batting well takes the team till the end. I am very happy that we came out on top.
However, young seamer Kagiso Rabada conceded only four runs in his first three deliveries and in the next two dismissed both the batsmen, paving the way for a five-run victory over the hosts.
“That will be our endeavour”.
“There will be no dew, so the three-spinner option is available to us”, added the India captain. “The world knows. I don’t have to say anything”.
“There is plenty of One-Day cricket coming up”.
India has a few very good spinners. There is Asia Cup. It was simply because of the magnitude of the players and the level of cricket and the fans. It’s a great opportunity to throw the hat into the ring.
Team director Ravi Shastri asserts India would bounce back.
“As cricket goes forward and Twenty20 has to survive, you have to strike the right balance”.
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After reaching his fifty off 54 balls with the help of just two sixes, de Villiers upped the ante in his usual manner and despite losing big-hitters David Miller (13) to Mishra and JP Duminy (15) to Yadav, the skipper remained unflustered and went about tonking the bowlers despite not timely the ball well.
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“One year down the line and we have just two more matches”.
