India vs South Africa: 2nd Test Preview

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Indexed  February 11, 2010

It’s do or die time for India if they want to avoid a rare home series loss to go with a dethroning as the world’s No. 1 Test team in the second Test against South Africa in Kolkata, which starts on Sunday.They did it in 2008 - South Africa was 1-0 going into the final Test and lost it inside three days. This time there is a lot more at stake, however, not least of which the small matter of $175,000 for ending the year as No. 1.In 2008 they could blame the Ahmedabad pitch for going 1-0 down, which was a gift-wrapped present for Dale Steyn. This time they had a great pitch to work with in Nagpur but were murdered by Steyn all the same and had to rely on bla...   See the complete post here