India v South Africa:Not a pretty picture

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Indexed  January 31, 2011

After India’s dismal showing in the 1st innings, I was sure a lot of talk over blogs would be the inability of India’s batting to perform in South Africa and the need to play some warm-up games before the so called final frontier. But, BCCI didn’t even ask for them, which I find absurd. Many bloggers are of the view, that warm-up games are over-rated after all. I personally feel, even if it doesn’t benefit, it won’t harm for sure. Some players need time to get used to bounce and pace of the pitches and it could have been a different story with a couple of two-day or three-day games. I am not saying that if India had got some match practice before hand, India would hav...   See the complete post here