South Africa v India tests - Jan 2018

[Dr Cricket]

SA comms saying 250 is gettable for india and SA need at least 300 to be confident of a win.

[Dr Cricket]

Uneven bounce though for the pace men.
oddly enough I always though uneven bounce is more easier to play then it spinning or Seaming.
although many disagreed on twitter where they think 150 will be enough for SA because of the uneven bounce.

[Dr Cricket]

if SA want 250 then they under pressure here, last real partnership left for SA.
poor shot from elgar that though.

[Dr Cricket]

Also got to say I hope all the dhoni haters in Test can shut the crap up now.
the fact no one really talked about his keeping apart from few troubles with the wobble ball in england he really didn't drop many and he was a decent bat to boot as well and now we have Saha who is a brillent keeper probably the best keeper in terms of catching but isn't really going to score runs outside asia and that probably putting his place under pressure or we have a keeper that will drop few chances but score probably more runs.

[Dr Cricket]

parthiv is a real crap keeper.
they should really either play rahul as keeper and extra batsman rahane or pick Karthik which is simiar to parthiv but probably a better batsman to pace men than parthiv.

personally go with Rahul, better batsman, similar keeping abilities and it gets rahane in the team.
out of those 3 keepers Rahul the best package mind you can he keep and open though.

[Dr Cricket]

de kock 4 edges 12 runs and wickets in 5 balls.
india back in it.

[Dr Cricket]

Game on now 3 wickets for the last 21 runs.
191/5.

[yuppie]

This games suddenly got interesting. SA middle order failing again, and they have a long tail.

[yuppie]

Could this game be over today?

[Dr Cricket]

Also shows how strong india pace attack is again considering the two bowlers most under pressure to missing out next game for bhuvi takes 5 wickets between them in this innings.
Shami taking 3 wickets in this spell as well and looking dangerous, india should be pleased that they know they got some depth if 1 or 2 guys get injured now.

[yuppie]

Got to say though, batting suddenly looks tough. the ball is doing a bit

[Dr Cricket]

looks like we got another test match in the series when the 4th innings starts both teams think they got a 50-50 shot to winning this.

[mikesiva]

Shami has turned the match around with three wickets.

[Dr Cricket]

it be so good if india could just pick shami on 2nd innings only lol.
Very good spell from him here.
A very good reverse swing bowler and old ball bowler as well.
not that great with the new ball though, needs to work on that aspect of it and being able to bowl well at the start quickly you can't really afford a bowler taking 15-20 overs plus to get into it.

[Dr Cricket]

Shami has turned the match around with three wickets.

incredible series so far it really needs 4 or 5 test matches in it.
SA are lucky though they got 7 top quality test matches this year.

From what I saw from this series india and SA are definitely 1 and 2 in the world, don't know which order yet but they are definitely the top 2 teams in the world at the moment.
Australia in it as well but they got some question to answer first.
for me the fact the series is close between the top 2 teams shows that these two are the top two team and we got two different conditions as well in both test, one sub c like and the other South african like as well.
in the past even the number 1 vs number 2 contest would be one sided because of home advantage, you probably looking at Austrlalia vs South africa in 2013 the last close number 1 vs number and then Australia said they were not the number 1 side after getting the title and as expected they lost the reign soon after and didn't actually get back again.

from what I seen from this series is that england would need to be good consistently to not lose matches against india as well in the english summer, a couple of bad days for england will cost them games.

England vs india should be a good series on paper.