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February 5, 2010
The battle for No. 1 begins
Calling this series the World Championship of Cricket, as the host broadcaster is, will be an exaggeration, but it does start a cycle of about two years by the end of which we could spot the undisputed best Test team. Both teams have reason to believe they can occupy the spot vacated by Australia. Both say it's not the rankings, but consistent good cricket against tough opposition at home and away, that will make them the best team. Over the next two years, they will get ample opportunity to do that against each other, and they will hate to let Australia sneak in again. To achieve their ends, though, India and South Africa have to overcome the immediate challenges posed by a slew of personnel changes. The hosts are without two key batsmen - Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh - and the visitors have a new coach and selection panel.
India are new to the concept of dominating in Test cricket. The current winning streak of four matches - two each against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - is their joint-longest in more than 77 years of Test cricket. They last won four in a row when they blanked hapless England 3-0 in 1992-93, followed by a one-off win against Zimbabwe. But one thing that this particular unit can't be accused of is carrying demons from, or reverence for, the past.
The incredible belief this team has is what sets it apart from the previous units that represented India. It's been more than two years since that infamous Sydney Test, and they have lost just three more games. Apart from the victories, there have been creditable draws along the way - in Bangalore against Australia, in Napier, in Ahmedabad against Sri Lanka. Those were matches India would have struggled to save in the past. Those were matches where the belief shone in adversity, setting up crucial series wins.
This time, though, they face adversity of a different kind: with Dravid and Yuvraj out, and VVS Laxman not yet certain to play, they go in with their most inexperienced middle order since Dravid became a permanent member of the side in the mid-nineties. Every observer is waiting, everybody wants a peek into the future, everybody wants to know if India can make winning a habit, or if they will have to start all over again, when Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman eventually go.
That's the kind of chink South Africa will look to exploit in a two-match series where margins will be fine for both sides. They have statistically been the best visitors to the country in the last decade, winning one series, drawing one, and losing one since 2000, a record any side visiting India would be proud of. However, on this trip they come with problems of their own, which are unique in that they go beyond cricket.
The last time they came to Nagpur, South Africa shook the cricketing world. Sometimes mild tremors are still felt. This time, they were themselves shaken before coming to Nagpur. The upheaval back home - Mickey Arthur resigning and the sacking of the selectors - and a drawn home series against England wasn't the best preparation for one of the most difficult cricket tours. Yet they arrived quietly confident, with a largely settled batting order and an aggressive new-ball combination. They also come without huge expectations, they are not being talked up, and they have shown in the past that's when they are at their most dangerous.
Form guide (last 5 completed matches, most recent first)
India WWWWD
South Africa WDLDW
Watch out for
S Badrinath has been scoring runs in domestic cricket for years. Consistently. About 18 months ago, he pleaded for one chance to fail. Since then, fate played a new game with him. He kept getting agonisingly close to the Test team, but that was where it ended. Months later, he was in the squad for the Australia series, but it was M Vijay, his Tamil Nadu team-mate, who came out of nowhere and grabbed with both hands the opportunity at the top. So well did Vijay do that he became the No. 1 choice for any middle-order vacancy. Finally, though, Badrinath's chance to fail has arrived, through injuries to Dravid and Yuvraj, and because only six batsmen were selected in the squad. We are on to either a Michael Hussey or an Ajay Sharma. Knowing Badrinath's career progress, though, don't be surprised if fate still contrives to keep him out of the starting XI. Rohit Sharma has already been asked to stay back as cover for Laxman.
Morkel and Steyn. "We have got bowlers in our attack who can bowl at 140-plus consistently. We would be stupid to not use the short ball, and not try to intimidate the batsmen," says Morne Morkel. "I've said many times before, a 150 or 145 km yorker is absolutely no different whether you bowl it here in Nagpur, Chennai, Johannesburg, Perth… It's the skill behind the delivery, what the planning is behind the delivery, that is what counts at the end of the day," says Dale Steyn. Time to bring it on now.
Team news
India should bat M Vijay, an opener by trade, at No. 3 and Badrinath at No. 6. That splits up the two inexperienced batsmen. If Laxman isn't fit - he has been batting in the nets but with a strapped left thumb - Rohit could become the second debutant in the match: captain of the Board President's XI for the tour game in Nagpur, he was asked to stay back as cover. There is little indication as to who out of Amit Mishra and Pragyan Ojha will be able to grab the last chair when the music stops.
India (probable): 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 M Vijay, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 S Badrinath, 7 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 8, Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Amit Mishra/Pragyan Ojha, 11 Ishant Sharma.
South Africa's big question is which spinner to play. Paul Harris has been their lead Test spinner for a while, has bowled a lot of overs in the last year, should have been the lead spinner for this series too, but Manish Pandey and Abhishek Nayar took him for 71 runs in 12 wicketless overs in the tour game. Johan Botha got one wicket in the same game. It was an anybody-bowls-but-only-11-bat match, and Botha was sent in to bat and not Harris. Don't know how much to read into it. The rest of the XI selects itself.
South Africa (probable): 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Ashwell Prince, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 JP Duminy, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Johan Botha/Paul Harris, 9 Wayne Parnell, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Morne Morkel.
Pitch and conditions
The South Africans would be naïve if they expect the same amount of life in the pitch for the Test match as they move from the old VCA Ground to the new VCA Stadium. But they have been happily surprised by the weather here, which was pleasant when they arrived and has turned to overcast leading into the Test. There were showers two days before the Test, the day before the match was mildly nippy and cloudy, and the forecast is for more of same.
Stats and trivia
Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag, at 2778 runs, are 233 short of becoming India's most prolific opening partnership. Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan hold the record.
Since Yuvraj Singh in 2003, no Indian has made a debut in the middle order. Badri will be the first.
Mark Boucher is nine dismissals short of becoming the first wicketkeeper to have assisted in 500 dismissals.
Quotes
"I think these days in the subcontinent you will be coming in a bit later to bat, when the ball is reverse swinging. To adjust to that is a challenge and it is something I'm looking forward to."
Hashim Amla on the eve of the Test.
"There's some uncertainty over Laxman, who was in the nets today. He will come back and share with physio how he feels. Other than that all others are fit."
MS Dhoni could be without another experienced middle-order batsman.
India are new to the concept of dominating in Test cricket. The current winning streak of four matches - two each against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - is their joint-longest in more than 77 years of Test cricket. They last won four in a row when they blanked hapless England 3-0 in 1992-93, followed by a one-off win against Zimbabwe. But one thing that this particular unit can't be accused of is carrying demons from, or reverence for, the past.
The incredible belief this team has is what sets it apart from the previous units that represented India. It's been more than two years since that infamous Sydney Test, and they have lost just three more games. Apart from the victories, there have been creditable draws along the way - in Bangalore against Australia, in Napier, in Ahmedabad against Sri Lanka. Those were matches India would have struggled to save in the past. Those were matches where the belief shone in adversity, setting up crucial series wins.
This time, though, they face adversity of a different kind: with Dravid and Yuvraj out, and VVS Laxman not yet certain to play, they go in with their most inexperienced middle order since Dravid became a permanent member of the side in the mid-nineties. Every observer is waiting, everybody wants a peek into the future, everybody wants to know if India can make winning a habit, or if they will have to start all over again, when Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman eventually go.
That's the kind of chink South Africa will look to exploit in a two-match series where margins will be fine for both sides. They have statistically been the best visitors to the country in the last decade, winning one series, drawing one, and losing one since 2000, a record any side visiting India would be proud of. However, on this trip they come with problems of their own, which are unique in that they go beyond cricket.
The last time they came to Nagpur, South Africa shook the cricketing world. Sometimes mild tremors are still felt. This time, they were themselves shaken before coming to Nagpur. The upheaval back home - Mickey Arthur resigning and the sacking of the selectors - and a drawn home series against England wasn't the best preparation for one of the most difficult cricket tours. Yet they arrived quietly confident, with a largely settled batting order and an aggressive new-ball combination. They also come without huge expectations, they are not being talked up, and they have shown in the past that's when they are at their most dangerous.
Form guide (last 5 completed matches, most recent first)
India WWWWD
South Africa WDLDW
Watch out for
S Badrinath has been scoring runs in domestic cricket for years. Consistently. About 18 months ago, he pleaded for one chance to fail. Since then, fate played a new game with him. He kept getting agonisingly close to the Test team, but that was where it ended. Months later, he was in the squad for the Australia series, but it was M Vijay, his Tamil Nadu team-mate, who came out of nowhere and grabbed with both hands the opportunity at the top. So well did Vijay do that he became the No. 1 choice for any middle-order vacancy. Finally, though, Badrinath's chance to fail has arrived, through injuries to Dravid and Yuvraj, and because only six batsmen were selected in the squad. We are on to either a Michael Hussey or an Ajay Sharma. Knowing Badrinath's career progress, though, don't be surprised if fate still contrives to keep him out of the starting XI. Rohit Sharma has already been asked to stay back as cover for Laxman.
Morkel and Steyn. "We have got bowlers in our attack who can bowl at 140-plus consistently. We would be stupid to not use the short ball, and not try to intimidate the batsmen," says Morne Morkel. "I've said many times before, a 150 or 145 km yorker is absolutely no different whether you bowl it here in Nagpur, Chennai, Johannesburg, Perth… It's the skill behind the delivery, what the planning is behind the delivery, that is what counts at the end of the day," says Dale Steyn. Time to bring it on now.
Team news
India should bat M Vijay, an opener by trade, at No. 3 and Badrinath at No. 6. That splits up the two inexperienced batsmen. If Laxman isn't fit - he has been batting in the nets but with a strapped left thumb - Rohit could become the second debutant in the match: captain of the Board President's XI for the tour game in Nagpur, he was asked to stay back as cover. There is little indication as to who out of Amit Mishra and Pragyan Ojha will be able to grab the last chair when the music stops.
India (probable): 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 M Vijay, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 S Badrinath, 7 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 8, Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Amit Mishra/Pragyan Ojha, 11 Ishant Sharma.
South Africa's big question is which spinner to play. Paul Harris has been their lead Test spinner for a while, has bowled a lot of overs in the last year, should have been the lead spinner for this series too, but Manish Pandey and Abhishek Nayar took him for 71 runs in 12 wicketless overs in the tour game. Johan Botha got one wicket in the same game. It was an anybody-bowls-but-only-11-bat match, and Botha was sent in to bat and not Harris. Don't know how much to read into it. The rest of the XI selects itself.
South Africa (probable): 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Ashwell Prince, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 JP Duminy, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Johan Botha/Paul Harris, 9 Wayne Parnell, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Morne Morkel.
Pitch and conditions
The South Africans would be naïve if they expect the same amount of life in the pitch for the Test match as they move from the old VCA Ground to the new VCA Stadium. But they have been happily surprised by the weather here, which was pleasant when they arrived and has turned to overcast leading into the Test. There were showers two days before the Test, the day before the match was mildly nippy and cloudy, and the forecast is for more of same.
Stats and trivia
Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag, at 2778 runs, are 233 short of becoming India's most prolific opening partnership. Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan hold the record.
Since Yuvraj Singh in 2003, no Indian has made a debut in the middle order. Badri will be the first.
Mark Boucher is nine dismissals short of becoming the first wicketkeeper to have assisted in 500 dismissals.
Quotes
"I think these days in the subcontinent you will be coming in a bit later to bat, when the ball is reverse swinging. To adjust to that is a challenge and it is something I'm looking forward to."
Hashim Amla on the eve of the Test.
"There's some uncertainty over Laxman, who was in the nets today. He will come back and share with physio how he feels. Other than that all others are fit."
MS Dhoni could be without another experienced middle-order batsman.
January 31, 2010
Dravid's injury "big blow" but we can beat South Africa: Gambhir
Injured Rahul Dravid's absence from next month's Test series against South Africa came was a "big blow" for the team, but India are a confident lot after starting the year on a winning note against Bangladesh, said opener Gautam Gambhir on Sunday.
"Rahul Dravid has been the wall of Indian middle order batting and his absence against a quality team such as South Africa will be a big blow," said Gambhir, a brand ambassador of MRF, after flagging off the Formula 1600 race in the MRF Challenge series. "But we have begun 2010 well (by winning against Bangladesh). The players would want to carry the momentum against South Africa. Moreover, injuries are part and parcel of sports, and it gives other players an opportunity to prove their mettle against a tough opposition," he said. Dravid has been ruled out of the two-Test series against the Proteas starting February 6 after the right-hander fractured his jaw during the just-concluded Bangladesh tour. Gambhir said South Africa have a strong pace attack in Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel but Indian duo of Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma are no less potent. "They have a strong bowling pair in Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel. We need to start off well upfront to keep them at bay. Though we don't have S Sreesanth, Zaks (Zaheer Khan) has been bowling extremely well recently. His performance in Bangladesh speaks volumes of the form he is in. "Ishant Sharma has also been bowling well in Test and we do have a good balance in bowling," said Gambhir. Gambhir said India will have to make a good start in all departments of the game if they want to beat Graeme Smith's men.
"We have to play well as a team. It would be crucial for us to get a good start, either batting or bowling first. If we are batting first we need to put up a good total to back up the bowlers. If we are bowling first, we need to take crucial early wickets," said the top-ranked ICC Test batsman. "They (South Africa) did well when they were here the last time, but didn't win the series. They will surely carry some confidence from that tour. But we have started off the year well by winning the series against Bangladesh. We have a lot of cricket ahead and it is good to start the year on such a positive note," he said.
"Rahul Dravid has been the wall of Indian middle order batting and his absence against a quality team such as South Africa will be a big blow," said Gambhir, a brand ambassador of MRF, after flagging off the Formula 1600 race in the MRF Challenge series. "But we have begun 2010 well (by winning against Bangladesh). The players would want to carry the momentum against South Africa. Moreover, injuries are part and parcel of sports, and it gives other players an opportunity to prove their mettle against a tough opposition," he said. Dravid has been ruled out of the two-Test series against the Proteas starting February 6 after the right-hander fractured his jaw during the just-concluded Bangladesh tour. Gambhir said South Africa have a strong pace attack in Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel but Indian duo of Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma are no less potent. "They have a strong bowling pair in Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel. We need to start off well upfront to keep them at bay. Though we don't have S Sreesanth, Zaks (Zaheer Khan) has been bowling extremely well recently. His performance in Bangladesh speaks volumes of the form he is in. "Ishant Sharma has also been bowling well in Test and we do have a good balance in bowling," said Gambhir. Gambhir said India will have to make a good start in all departments of the game if they want to beat Graeme Smith's men.
"We have to play well as a team. It would be crucial for us to get a good start, either batting or bowling first. If we are batting first we need to put up a good total to back up the bowlers. If we are bowling first, we need to take crucial early wickets," said the top-ranked ICC Test batsman. "They (South Africa) did well when they were here the last time, but didn't win the series. They will surely carry some confidence from that tour. But we have started off the year well by winning the series against Bangladesh. We have a lot of cricket ahead and it is good to start the year on such a positive note," he said.
January 28, 2010
Pakistan team lack unity: Afridi
Flamboyant Pakistan all-rounder and vice-captain Shahid Afridi has opened up a new front with captain Mohammad Yousuf and other members accusing them of not playing as a unit in the ongoing One-day series in Australia. "The thing is that we are losing because the players are not playing with unity," Afridi said on Geo Television after Pakistan suffered a 40-run defeat in the third One-dayer against Australia in Adelaide. Afridi said everyone was playing to make a name for himself and not for the national team. "I am really sad and disappointed at the performance of team," Afridi said. Afridi, who made it clear that those players who were not performing well should be rested or dropped so that the new players could be given a chance to play, also took an indirect dig at his captain when asked about the team's performance. "I believe that a good captain is one who can control his players and extract the best performances from them," Afridi said. Afridi, who scored a hard hitting 40 in the defeat, is being tipped to replace Yousuf at the helm of the ODI squad when the team returns from Australia. Ironically even Yousuf has said that it is time Pakistan Cricket Board drop such players from the team who play for themselves and not for the team
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