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 matt...
The battle for the world’s number one ranking is on when India host South Africa in the first Test in Nagpur starting on Saturday.The odds are stacked heavily in India’s favour as all they need is a drawn series to win the $175,000 for being No. 1 on the 1st of April, but that doesn’t matter - South Africa play some of their best cricket when they’ve been written off.Not th...
Four overs before tea on the first day of the second Test between India and South Africa in Kolkata you’d have been forgiven for assuming the series was all but over for India.South Africa were poised on 218/1 after a double-century stand between the redoubtable Hashim Amla (114) and debutant opener Alviro Petersen (100), which had lifted the Proteas after Zaheer Khan once again clean bowled...
To say it was a difficult first day for India in this test series would be an understatement. South Africa steered themselves into a commanding position thanks to brilliant centuries by Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla after their openers failed early on. At 6/2 India probably began to believe that not everything was going against [...]...
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