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After a winning finish to the T20I series which they drew 1-1, South Africa now face an uphill task against the top-ranked Test team in a three-match series, which begins in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday, 2 October.

Overview:

India v South Africa, 1st Test
ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam
Wednesday, 2 October, 9:30am local, 4:00am GMT

South Africa had a series to forget when they last toured India in 2015, losing three of the four games, and were precariously placed in the rain-affected drawn Test in Bangalore. Come 2019, things appear even more difficult as they lack a bit on the experience front, with Dale Steyn and Hashim Amla calling it quits last month. However, the visitors will be inspired by Aiden Markram, who scored a fluent century in the practice game against Board President's XI, and will be one of their key players in the series.

While skipper Faf Du Plessis and Dean Elgar will be eager to make an early statement with the bat, the bowling unit seems well-rounded with the return of pacemen Vernon Philander and Lungi Ngidi, and left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj.

India consolidated their position as the No.1 side in the MRF Tyres ICC Test Team Rankings with a 2-0 series whitewash in West Indies, which also earned them their first points in the ICC World Test Championship. Their record at home is even more enviable, as they've won each of their ten series since 2012-13 – the joint highest for most consecutive series wins on home soil. This series also presents a great opportunity for Rohit Sharma to revive his Test career, who is almost certain to partner Mayank Agarwal at the top.


A collective bowling performance, led by Mohammed Shami's five-wicket haul in the fourth-innings helped India clinch a 63-run win in a low scoring third Test in Johannesburg, after South Africa had already sealed the 2017-18 series, winning the first two games. When the teams last met in India, Ajinkya Rahane scored centuries in each innings of the fourth Test in Delhi, before Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja combined to end the visitors' 143.1 overs long resistance on the final day, to complete a 337-run win.

What they said:

Ajinkya Rahane, India vice-captain: “It is important to start with a win because of the Test Championship points. You cannot take any team lightly. It is important to respect your opponents. As we know the conditions we need to focus on our strength."

Vernon Philander, South Africa bowler: "The Test championship brings in a new dimension. It is a new sort of excitement for players. Also knowing that you will be playing against top teams more often [is great]. It’s a tough start…playing India in India but I don’t think the South Africans would have wanted it any other way… take the big dogs in their home ground. All of us are looking forward to this challenge and there are a lot of player-to-player challenges as well. Can’t wait to get going."

Conditions:

It's expected to be sunny day with a gentle breeze and temperatures hovering around 30-33℃. In the only Test played previously at this venue, spinners shared 25 of the 40 wickets between them, eight in the final innings, to set up a 246-run win for the hosts against England in 2016.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/1365706
 
Lost half the interest with India winning toss - won’t be much of a contest now. Rain might take the game to day 5 though.
 
Interesting to see how Rohit goes on about this. I hope he gets tested by Rabada with the new ball.
 
MMHS said:
Lost half the interest with India winning toss - won’t be much of a contest now. Rain might take the game to day 5 though.
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Injury to bumrah, lack of form of ash/jaddu and our crooked team management s selections will make this a much more even contest.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Injury to bumrah, lack of form of ash/jaddu and our crooked team management s selections will make this a much more even contest.
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May be for first innings. Color of the track tells that IND might finish Day 1 at 352-3 ............................, after that two bowlers are enough.
 
India won the toss and opt to bat

India XI: Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami

SA XI : Aiden Markram, Dean Elgar, Theunis de Bruyn, Temba Bavuma, Faf du Plessis (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Vernon Philander, Senuran Muthusamy, Keshav Maharaj, Dane Piedt, Kagiso Rabada
 
MMHS said:
May be for first innings. Color of the track tells that IND might finish Day 1 at 352-3 ............................, after that two bowlers are enough.
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Plenty of help for the seamers here. Not sure it's possible to score at 4 an over. Maybe later if pitch flattens out and this slow outfield quickens up.
 
love s.africa but I hope india destroy them 3-0. phainta again.

btw this s.african side is not crap. They are a formidable team and will put up a fight for sure.

Some real good players.
 
Good crowd for a test match. Great step by the BCCI to host tests in second tier cities.
 
India should be disappointed with anything less than 3-0. SA's batting lineup has some fighters but ultimately the skill gap is too much on these pitches.
 
IND 91/0 (30.0) CRR: 3.03
Day 1: Lunch Break - India opt to bat
 
Long, long, long days awaiting for SAF - last 15 overs went at 4+ rate without any wicket; 350 should be on the cards.
 
MMHS said:
Long, long, long days awaiting for SAF - last 15 overs went at 4+ rate without any wicket; 350 should be on the cards.
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If you are talking just day 1, then 350 ain't happening, 300 is possible but 350 is not. If it's first innings then would be disappointing as anything less than 500 would be huge opportunity missed.
 
30 overs in the first session of a test match. This happens only in India . On a consistent basis anyway.
 
andy0204 said:
Dukes ball should be use in test cricket
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no. England can stick with their duke ball. They need to learn how to play spin. Original pitch doctoring kings are actually s.africa, australia and England. Every country should play to their strengths at home
 
This series is going to be very painful for SA IMO. I think they are going to get bullied and tortured a lot, in these conditions India is like Nadal on clay. Let us see what Kock, Faf, Rabada and Philander do, they haven't done anything in Asian conditions till now in their careers. Hope there is some fight shown.
 
Rohit will make double centuries on these type of tracks and it will cost us the newzealand series.
Prithvi shaw's position might be in danger.

These are the kind of pitches on which even ftbs like rohit, dhoni can make centuries. :inti
 
jeeteshssaxena said:
Rohit will make double centuries on these type of tracks and it will cost us the newzealand series.
Prithvi shaw's position might be in danger.

These are the kind of pitches on which even ftbs like rohit, dhoni can make centuries. :inti
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And the best part is rahane might fail even on these pitches and they'll still take him to NZ. But the the real issue is rishabh after all :inti
 
SA bowling attack exposed brutally. If you aren't getting the likes of Rohit out cheaply in tests, you ain't that good. Of course they got exposed by SL at home as well earlier this year on designer pitches so this shouldve been expected I suppose.
 
If only South Africa had Simon Harmer playing for them and not for kolpak deal.
 
Rohit now needs to continue rather than throw it away, make it big hitman.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
SA bowling attack exposed brutally. If you aren't getting the likes of Rohit out cheaply in tests, you ain't that good. Of course they got exposed by SL at home as well earlier this year on designer pitches so this shouldve been expected I suppose.
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Rohit has never been a poor Test player. Indian batting standards are simply too high. In spite of all the criticism, he has averaged around 40. In most other teams, he would have already been a massive important player.

However, unless you average 50+, you are never safe in the Indian lineup. Opening with him could be a masterstroke. He has the experience and the temperament to make it work and be devastating like Sehwag.
 
Mamoon said:
Rohit has never been a poor Test player. Indian batting standards are simply too high. In spite of all the criticism, he has averaged around 40. In most other teams, he would have already been a massive important player.

However, unless you average 50+, you are never safe in the Indian lineup. Opening with him could be a masterstroke. He has the experience and the temperament to make it work and be devastating like Sehwag.
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Won't work in outside Asia.
 
Mamoon said:
Rohit has never been a poor Test player. Indian batting standards are simply too high. In spite of all the criticism, he has averaged around 40. In most other teams, he would have already been a massive important player.

However, unless you average 50+, you are never safe in the Indian lineup. Opening with him could be a masterstroke. He has the experience and the temperament to make it work and be devastating like Sehwag.
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That 40 average is due to West Indies and Sri Lanka bashing at home.

If he gets to open in New Zealand, he'll be tore apart by Boult and co.
 
Mamoon said:
Rohit has never been a poor Test player. Indian batting standards are simply too high. In spite of all the criticism, he has averaged around 40. In most other teams, he would have already been a massive important player.

However, unless you average 50+, you are never safe in the Indian lineup. Opening with him could be a masterstroke. He has the experience and the temperament to make it work and be devastating like Sehwag.
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Any batsman who can't play swing cannot be considered a good test player, he is a ftb and this innings proves nothing in regards what many consider to be his weakness.
 
Mamoon said:
Rohit has never been a poor Test player. Indian batting standards are simply too high. In spite of all the criticism, he has averaged around 40. In most other teams, he would have already been a massive important player.

However, unless you average 50+, you are never safe in the Indian lineup. Opening with him could be a masterstroke. He has the experience and the temperament to make it work and be devastating like Sehwag.
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The pitch had enough in the first hour for seamers but philander was too slow despite being accurate and Rabada was too short to threaten the stumps. Look at how Hazelwood bowled in England. Had Rohit faced Cummins and Hazelwood on this track instead, they would have knocked him over cheaply. Also Rohit has only performed in India against teams like SL and windies. Sehwag destroyed every team in Asia and did well in Australia too. Not much of a comparison.
 
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andy0204 said:
Won't work in outside Asia.
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India should play rohit as opener in Asia only..
They need to find solid opening batsmen for matches outside Asia..may be time for Gill to open, i didn't have much confidence in prudhvi shaw technique...
 
IND 202/0 (59.1) CRR: 3.41
Day 1: Tea Break - India opt to bat
 
Rohit's test career will end in tragedy.

Every recent indian opener has scored big in his first home match. Dhawan, Rahul, Shaw, Rohit and Agarwal. We need players who can do same outside India.

Agarwal has shown good temperament so far but he too has leaky technique. Shaw and Dhawan are ball bashers. Shaw may develop into a better basher but ATM he just another good ball basher. Rahul has lost both his technique and temperament. Rohit is a visa away from tears(ours).
 
I'm a fan of Rohit's but he would be a walking wicket in NZ :))
 
Nikhil_cric said:
And the best part is rahane might fail even on these pitches and they'll still take him to NZ. But the the real issue is rishabh after all :inti
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Rahane is twice the player rohit sharma is in tests.
He is like the second coming of amarnath so its obvious that he is important in away tours.
 
15:32 Local Time, 10:02 GMT, 15:32 IST: It is official. Play has been called off for the day. It had to happen once the rain gods intervened. The down pour was pretty heavy and any chance of a restart was far fetched thought.
 
Rohit makes ton in first innings as Test opener as India punish South Africa

Rohit Sharma marked his foray into Test match opening with his fourth career century as South Africa’s bowlers were rendered wicketless on the first day of their three-Test series against India.

On a truncated day, only 59.1 overs were bowled before rain in Visakhapatnam forced early tea, and subsequent abandonment of the day's play at 3.30pm IST.

South Africa's pace attack hardly fazed India's newest opening combination in Test cricket, while the visiting spinners were inconsistent and couldn't extract much off a day one surface. By stumps, India had marched on to 202/0, with Rohit unshaken at 115* and Mayank Agarwal having moved towards a maiden Test century of his own, batting on 84.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/1366487
 
INDIA TAKE CHARGE ON OPENING DAY OF TEST SERIES

Wednesday, 02 October 2019

IT was India’s day from the moment that Virat Kohli won the toss on the opening day of the Test series against the Standard Bank Proteas at Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.

The Indian opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Mayank Agarwal were held in check by the new ball pair of Kagiso Rabada and Vernon Philander for the first hour but thereafter the home side took charge scoring 91 runs in the first session and a further 111 in the second before play was disrupted by rain five balls before the tea interval.

No further play was possible, leaving India with an imposing total of 202 without loss in 59.1 overs at the close.

Sharma scored his fourth Test match century and went on to an unbeaten 115 (174 balls, 12 fours, 5 sixes) while Agarwal recorded his fourth half-century and went on to a career best of 84 (183 balls, 11 fours and 2 sixes).

The Proteas went into the match with a five-man bowling attack that included three spinners in Keshav Maharaj, Dane Piedt and debutant Senuran Muthusamy – the 102nd player to represent the Proteas in this format.

Maharaj did a good containing job, but the Indians succeeded in targeting the other spin bowlers, particularly Piedt, and both proved expensive, going for a total of 66 runs from their 12 overs. By comparison Maharaj conceded the same number of runs from twice the number of overs.

The early finish will have given the Proteas the chance to regroup and revisit their bowling plans.

At this stage the pitch looks a good batting surface which suggests the Proteas made the right call in the composition of their side.
 
Aman said:
I'm a fan of Rohit's but he would be a walking wicket in NZ :))
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Rohit, Agarwal, Kohli, Saha/Pant all can't play swing bowl. India will be exposed badly by Boult and co. We're already reeling from the epic thumping you guys gave us in semifinals :inti
 
Ram Shekhar said:
Rohit, Agarwal, Kohli, Saha/Pant all can't play swing bowl. India will be exposed badly by Boult and co. We're already reeling from the epic thumping you guys gave us in semifinals :inti
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Kohli can't paly swinging ball but how on earth he made centuries in eng and nz(pretty much same attack last time he made runs)
 
Ram Shekhar said:
I've seen him bat and believe me, he will fail in most countries. Only will succeed in tailor made Indian conditions though :inti
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Yes just like we are supposed to believe you that kohli can't play swing even if his record in NZ and SA may say otherwise since you don't count his England test nos.
 
How many sixes has Sharma hit so far in internationals? Every time he bats he seems to hit at least 1 six..
 
Nikhil_cric said:
SA bowling attack exposed brutally. If you aren't getting the likes of Rohit out cheaply in tests, you ain't that good. Of course they got exposed by SL at home as well earlier this year on designer pitches so this shouldve been expected I suppose.
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You do realize Rohit averages 90 at home right?
 
Ram Shekhar said:
Yeah one spin pitch not utilized effectively :inti
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Hehe that was not a spin pitch. Well atleast we are unbeatable in some conditions. Sad times for Asian cricket when certain other teams are rubbish regardless of what pitch they play on despite all the talent, charisma and swagger. :(
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Hehe that was not a spin pitch. Well atleast we are unbeatable in some conditions. Sad times for Asian cricket when certain other teams are rubbish regardless of what pitch they play on despite all the talent, charisma and swagger. :(
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Pakistan and Sri Lanka are starting test championship this month. Let's see how they will play. With Imran & Misbah at the helm, I suspect we will see the revival of Pakistan's test fortunes.
 
This means Shubman Gill will be handing over drinks for a considerable period of time.

Rohit will always succeed in India. His problem is when playing overseas and that too as an opener :facepalm:
 
Yeah I had it with test cricket too now, this Rohit planning was planted with pitch and im giving into conspiracy theories.
 
Rohit sharma has not issues in India. Everyone knows that. Pushing him to open like they did in the one dayers will backfire at some point. He has no ability to play besides the ball to counter the swing or any kind of seam movement. Even today against basic new ball movements he looked out of place. This is on a flat wicket.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Rohit sharma has not issues in India. Everyone knows that. Pushing him to open like they did in the one dayers will backfire at some point. He has no ability to play besides the ball to counter the swing or any kind of seam movement. Even today against basic new ball movements he looked out of place. This is on a flat wicket.
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I would like to know more about the openers who can play swing well. I think you would have loved to see a dud like KL Rahul here instead? :inti
 
Bhaag Viru Bhaag said:
I would like to know more about the openers who can play swing well. I think you would have loved to see a dud like KL Rahul here instead? :inti
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Any opener (except KL) will do better than Rohit in New Zealand. Doesn't match if it's Shaw or Vijay or even Dhawan for that matter.
 
I can see Rohit crossing 200 (possibly 300).

South Africa attack is looking toothless and lifeless.
 
Bhaag Viru Bhaag said:
I would like to know more about the openers who can play swing well. I think you would have loved to see a dud like KL Rahul here instead? :inti
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well for that you need to send players to play county cricjet. But india would never do that. Anyway there are far far better players than KL Rahul, rohit in ranji.

Eeshwaran and pankaj are phenomenal talents. They are not getting a go unfortunately.

Shaw will be back soon anyway. Shaw is another one with serious potential.
 
Ram Shekhar said:
I've seen him bat and believe me, he will fail in most countries. Only will succeed in tailor made Indian conditions though :inti
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I agree with this statement. Rohit is a trash player outside india in tests. He is a good player of bounce but he can't even do that in australia for some reason.
 
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