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South Africa end Day 3 of the 3rd Test at Newlands at 101/2, needing 111 more runs to win the series

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1st session will decide fate of this much competitive series. I'm pretty much sure India will win this battle.
 
Rahane will also be in huge pressure... He may not handle it. This will definitely be their last match!
 
It'll be a travesty if these 2 good for nothing play another test match for us.
 
Great! Rahane gone for 1 in hopefully his last test innings.
 
Send out Ashwin.

He'll do better than these frauds.
 
This is all on Kohli. He was the one who promoted this incompetence in our batting lineup for years.
 
I have to give credit to South Africa here. Before the series started I thought they were going down the Zimbabwe route but boy was I wrong. THEY have some great talented players black and white and will remain dominant for a long long time..... It's good for cricket overall.
 
This attack will be another level with Anrich Notje added. Jansen is a great prospect and adds another dimension to this SA attack.
 
Rahane in his last inngs gets a ball that even the great Don would have struggled to nick.. but he did!

Bad luck!
 
Can Pant atone for all the sins he committed during last 6-odd months?
 
India somehow needs to set target upto 160. Small chases are always tricky.
South Africa has only 6 pure batsman. Though Jansen, Maharaj and Rabada are quality tailenders, pressure will get better of them.
Very interesting phase of the match 👍🏻
 
Rahane in his last 50 tests,

85 innings, 2659 runs, 33.23 average, 4 hundreds..

Kohli should be blamed for backing him for such a long period.
 
Joseph Gomes said:
You joking right? South African batsmen may not be too quality but they're gritty and place bounce quite well. Indian bowlers have nothing to defend.
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Small chases are always tricky and we have a quality pace attack with an aggressive captain.
 
Joseph Gomes said:
You joking right? South African batsmen may not be too quality but they're gritty and place bounce quite well. Indian bowlers have nothing to defend.
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Besides there is a 'small' matter of them playing at home, a huge advantage.
 
If I was a betting man, and I am, then I'll put good money on SA right now.

Indian bowling attack is no doubt good, but they will never get this kinda assistance from the pitch due to their lack of height, and also Yadav is playing who'd go for his standard 4rpo

I don't see Kohli or anybody from the Ind team doing any damage against this attack on this pitch, meaning SA will get ~200 odd to chase, which should give SA about 65% chance to win
 
Unbiased-Fan said:
Rahane in his last 50 tests,

85 innings, 2659 runs, 33.23 average, 4 hundreds..

Kohli should be blamed for backing him for such a long period.
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Pujara's stats must be similarly pathetic as would Kohli's. But at least Kohli is leading us well in test cricket.
 
Romali_rotti said:
And just like that South Africa will remain India's final frontier...
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Will remain for many years to come because India may not possess such a great bowling attack in future even though their batting may improve. And on the other hand South Africa will definitely gear back to their best days! This was the last chance for India...
 
But on the hindsight this is some serious bowling really... Any team would have struggled against it. Whichever team in the past (including Sri Lanka) might definitely have not faced bowling with such rhythm!
 
I have never seen a worse batsman who's as experienced as Rahane. Literally worse than tailenders.
 
Kohli's captaincy and aggression (handling bowlers in 4th innings) can only bring some fortune for India...
 
After Sydney 2019 Test Pujara average was 51.2 and now it's 43.88
In these 3 years he scored 1287 runs @ 27.4
 
MP2011 said:
Pujara's stats must be similarly pathetic as would Kohli's. But at least Kohli is leading us well in test cricket.
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With Kohli, form is temporary class is permanent etc.

Can't say the same for the other two.

But of course we can't move on from both of them at the same time. Let's begin by dropping Rahane for the home West Indies series.
 
Can't believe Iyer not playing after scoring a hundred but useless Rahane is playing
 
Varun said:
With Kohli, form is temporary class is permanent etc.

Can't say the same for the other two.

But of course we can't move on from both of them at the same time. Let's begin by dropping Rahane for the home West Indies series.
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We have replacement of both pujara & Rahane .
Vihari
Iyer
Gill
 
Let's remember South Africa have a Rahane of their own - Temba Bavuma.
 
India is fast becoming a Kohli or Bust team. Atleast there are some talented players in reserve and Rohit too. Another 150 runs will be needed to have a good chance to enforce victory.
 
Smbhayi said:
Good for nothing guy was one of the main contributer of most of the historic wins last 6-8 years..
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That was some time back, wasn't it? So you keep playing deadwood in the team despite replacement being available?

No wonder with attitude like this, our middle order is 2nd worst of all test playing nations.
 
Smbhayi said:
That's the problem, when Pujara doing that it's negative cricket when others doing this it's ok..
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Who said it's negative cricket? Pujara gets out and that is a negative result for the team.
 
Smbhayi said:
That's the problem, when Pujara doing that it's negative cricket when others doing this it's ok..
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Others are capable of scoring runs even after this tuk tuk, Pujara isn't.
 
Kohli finally moves on from 16*, after playing 36 scoreless deliveries.
 
If Pant stays in for 2 hours, india win this game. kohli showing his class grinding out runs.
 
Devadwal said:
Lol here again come pujara fan .
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Lol it's amazing how often Pujara is in firing line but not Rahane, Rahul and other deadwoods etc.. i dont mind removing him but he should be 3rd or 4th in the list..
 
Smbhayi said:
That's the problem, when Pujara doing that it's negative cricket when others doing this it's ok..
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In the end its the runs scored that win you the match, not number of balls faced.

Now, if Pujara's blocking lead to some solid runs later in the innings, it wouldnt be a problem. But he gets out of after blocking for a session leaving us in a worse position. He is averaging 24 since Aus tour. I am sure his performance before that was nothing to write home about either.

So he needs to go.
 
MP2011 said:
Others are capable of scoring runs even after this tuk tuk, Pujara isn't.
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Pujara decline starts when Kohli publicly critisize him to not showing intend, I'm happy too see Kohli showing lot of intend here...
 
Smbhayi said:
Lol it's amazing how often Pujara is in firing line but not Rahane, Rahul and other deadwoods etc.. i dont mind removing him but he should be 3rd or 4th in the list..
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Clearly you haven't been following our posts over the past year.
 
Joseph Gomes said:
Who is worse? Rahane or Buttler?
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Rahane contribution in SENA Test wins from 2010:


Lords 2014 - 103(154)
TRENTBRIDGE 2018 - 81(131)
JOHANNESBURG 2018 - Crucial 48(68)
ADELAIDE 2018 - 70(147)
MELBOURNE 2020 - 112(223)
LORDS 2021 - 61(146)
CENTURION 2021 - 48(102)

What Buttler has achieved in Test cricket?
There is no comparison.
 
Smbhayi said:
Pujara decline starts when Kohli publicly critisize him to not showing intend, I'm happy too see Kohli showing lot of intend here...
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That was wrong of Kohli to publicly castigate Pujara for his low strike rate, that's not how leaders operate.

Had he himself been scoring runs, he'd have had guts to sack Pujara but he himself was sailing in the same boat and was making the team just because he is captain.
 
Smbhayi said:
Lol it's amazing how often Pujara is in firing line but not Rahane, Rahul and other deadwoods etc.. i dont mind removing him but he should be 3rd or 4th in the list..
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I think you will find that most posters want Rahane & Pujara to go.

Rahul in 2021& 2022 in 7 tests has 2 100s and 2 50s
Pujara since Aus tour in 15 tests has only 4 50s.
 
Smbhayi said:
Pujara decline starts when Kohli publicly critisize him to not showing intend, I'm happy too see Kohli showing lot of intend here...
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Wasnt that in 2015? Pujara has played more than 50 tests since then, and was fairly successful at it until last year.
 
Sidilicious said:
In the end its the runs scored that win you the match, not number of balls faced.

Now, if Pujara's blocking lead to some solid runs later in the innings, it wouldnt be a problem. But he gets out of after blocking for a session leaving us in a worse position. He is averaging 24 since Aus tour. I am sure his performance before that was nothing to write home about either.

So he needs to go.
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If he can bat out many balls it does matter.. it tires bowlers and it become easier to bat for coming batsman.. for now he not merit the place.. i question why only his name coming up not others..?
 
Smbhayi said:
Lol it's amazing how often Pujara is in firing line but not Rahane, Rahul and other deadwoods etc.. i dont mind removing him but he should be 3rd or 4th in the list..
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Rahane is pathetic player i already talk about him. Lol at Rahul
 
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Smbhayi said:
If he can bat out many balls it does matter.. it tires bowlers and it become easier to bat for coming batsman.. for now he not merit the place.. i question why only his name coming up not others..?
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Again, follow the posts, you will find every one and his dog is calling for both Rahane and Pujara's sacking.
 
Rabada is back against a rampaging Pant

This should be interesting.
 
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