South Africa vs India: 6 ODI & 3 T20I; February 1-24, 2018 at South Africa

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:33 am

Fixture

1st ODI: Thursday, February 01 at Kingsmead, Durban (11:00 GMT)
2nd ODI: Sunday, February 04 at SuperSport Park, Centurion (8:00 GMT)
3rd ODI: Wednesday, February 07 at Newlands, Cape Town (11:00 GMT)
4th ODI: Saturday, February 10 at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg (11:00 GMT)
5th ODI: Tuesday, February 13 at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth (11:00 GMT)
6th ODI: Friday, February 16 at SuperSport Park, Centurion (11:00 GMT)

1st T20I: Sunday, February 18 at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg (12:30 GMT)
2nd T20I: Wednesday, February 21 at SuperSport Park, Centurion (16:00 GMT)
3rd T20I: Saturday, February 24 at Newlands, Cape Town (16:00 GMT)

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:26 am

These 2 will be competitive and interesting.

Good Luck to both the teams.

mukeshkr · Postby **mukeshkr** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:20 am

Team India Will Go to make a history during this ODI Series. Both teams are unbeatable in the ODI Series for 18 Months. One team will lose the Series orMay be the series will draw. The 1st Match was most exciting for Indian Viewers... Predict Who Will Win & Post live Update here

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:40 am

South Africa have won the toss, will bat first.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:43 am

Chahal, Kuldeep, Kedar Jadhav all are playing along with Bhuvaneshwar and Bumrah in the pace attack.

I am surprised as Durban is always known as a track where ball does a lot. Ok Pandya is playing.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:44 am

South Africa XI: Quinton de Kock (wk), Hashim Amla, Faf du Plessis (capt.), Aiden Markram, JP Duminy, David Miller, Chris Morris, Andile Phehlukwayo, Kagiso Rabada, Morne Morkel, Imran Tahir

India XI: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (capt.), Ajinkya Rahane, MS Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal

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In Leo's words, best of luck to both teams.

Paddles · Postby **Paddles** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:48 am

Where's ABDV?

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:50 am

Bumrah, Bhuvi, Chahal and Kuldeep will bowl 40 and Hardik and Kedar 10 overs between them. Batting for India looks a little dodgy. Rahane gives some comfort.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:50 am

Paddles wrote:Where's ABDV?

Injured.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:58 am

Shreyas Iyer must have felt a little hard done by. Not picked.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:13 pm

Chahal gets his first wicket in SA.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:17 pm

Tinsel wrote:
bolero wrote:Shreyas Iyer must have felt a little hard done by. Not picked.

that is not bad but stealing other person's thread in live games should not forgive
poor BOYCES not even know the venue right

85 for 2

Who is stealing thread ? Mind your language.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:24 pm

Kohli injured his knee while diving. Off the field. Looks serious.

Paddles · Postby **Paddles** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:00 pm

Safrica better rethink their team with no ABDV and Morris at 7.

134/5 after 28 overs, this is going to take some saving by Safrica now.

Still with batting at 8, and Tahir, Morkel and Rabada, not impossible.

But I'm not sure Phelukwayo has it with the bat as much as Safrica will want.

But Pretorious and Mulder while established batsmen, don't quite fill his quota spot.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:02 pm

He was off the field for a time, jamming his knee into the turf, but he is back on now.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:22 pm

They are struggling against Kuldeep and Chahal. I expected this. Check my South Africa preview thread.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:26 pm

Tinsel wrote:
bolero wrote:Kohli injured his knee while diving. Off the field. Looks serious.

no not true
miller caught virat bowls KY

Check Boycs comment. He hurt his knee badly and applied ice pack. Back on field.

Paddles · Postby **Paddles** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:44 pm

Boycs wrote:He was off the field for a time, jamming his knee into the turf, but he is back on now.

Eccentric cricket millionaires, you'd think they'd have better things to do when they're off the cricket field.

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 2:07 pm

210/6 in 42 overs. if restricted for 250 bowlers have done their job. :up:

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 2:40 pm

Indian fielding has been shabby, dropped catches, misfieldings.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 2:52 pm

Only six extras isn’t bad for India. Target of around 270 ought to make it a more interesting game

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 2:53 pm

269 is way beyond expectations. good batting at the death.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:13 pm

Ball swings a lot under lights at Durban.Difficult Chase. SA scored at least 30 runs more than what India would have wanted them to.

Paddles · Postby **Paddles** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 4:06 pm

bolero wrote:Ball swings a lot under lights at Durban.Difficult Chase. SA scored at least 30 runs more than what India would have wanted them to.

The benefit of an allrounder at 8.

raja · Postby **raja** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 4:27 pm

Duminy still gets selected for SA?

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:39 pm

fine example for why test players should not play ODIs and vice versa. keep your potatoes and carrots separate.

Paddles · Postby **Paddles** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:05 pm

Going South wrote:fine example for why test players should not play ODIs and vice versa. keep your potatoes and carrots separate.

So drop Kohli from which format?

raja · Postby **raja** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:58 am

Tinsel wrote:GOING SOUTH OF CRICFORUM says:
Kohli, an ultimate chase master giving it back to the Proteas in their den (breaking their home winning streak in ODIs).

BOLERO of CRICFORUM says:
What would be going through Shreyas Iyer and Manish Pandey's mind? Will they be happy for anchoring role of Rahane which took India home or will they be bothered about their no.4 spot? -- For now, they will celebrate a fine win

Where did you get these from? :grin:

raja · Postby **raja** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 3:44 am

Ok, I see that you took the comments from cricbuzz, and changed the names to GS and bolero.

If we post anything from another site, we usually give credit to it, in the form of a link or at least mentioning it.
Copyright issues apart, it is basic courtesy.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 3:59 am

raja wrote:Duminy still gets selected for SA?

He is like Afridi. Never seems to retire.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:02 am

Tinsel wrote:
GOING SOUTH OF CRICFORUM says:
Kohli, an ultimate chase master giving it back to the Proteas in their den (breaking their home winning streak in ODIs).

BOLERO of CRICFORUM says:
What would be going through Shreyas Iyer and Manish Pandey's mind? Will they be happy for anchoring role of Rahane which took India home or will they be bothered about their no.4 spot? -- For now, they will celebrate a fine win

Virat Kohli, Man of the Match:

Dont do this copy paste stuff and wrongly attribute comments to us. Always post a link , the source of the article.

This is basic forum rules.

Paddles · Postby **Paddles** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:34 am

bolero wrote:
raja wrote:Duminy still gets selected for SA?

He is like Afridi. Never seems to retire.

Afridi has retired.

So has Nehra.

Bhaji, Gayle, Herath and Malik are current evergreens. Herath prolly has best odds to make it to 2020's.

I put together a full list of 90's intls still playing in a previous thread with Boycs.

Paddles · Postby **Paddles** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:41 am

raja wrote:
Tinsel wrote:GOING SOUTH OF CRICFORUM says:
Kohli, an ultimate chase master giving it back to the Proteas in their den (breaking their home winning streak in ODIs).

BOLERO of CRICFORUM says:
What would be going through Shreyas Iyer and Manish Pandey's mind? Will they be happy for anchoring role of Rahane which took India home or will they be bothered about their no.4 spot? -- For now, they will celebrate a fine win

Where did you get these from?

To be fair - the Bolero comment almost sounds like something he'd say. The Going South one, not so much.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:46 am

Paddles wrote:
bolero wrote:
He is like Afridi. Never seems to retire.

Afridi has retired.

So has Nehra.

Bhaji, Gayle, Herath and Malik are current evergreens. Herath prolly has best odds to make it to 2020's.

I put together a full list of 90's intls still playing in a previous thread with Boycs.

Thats interesting. Would like to see the names. Yeah, Herath and Malik too never seem to retire.

Afridi has made so many comebacks you never know when he is retiring and then making a comeback.

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:46 pm

Paddles wrote:
Going South wrote:fine example for why test players should not play ODIs and vice versa. keep your potatoes and carrots separate.

So drop Kohli from which format?

i say kohli should never be playing test cricket that too as a captain.

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 8:57 am

South Africa in trouble. 3 down at 51.

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 9:08 am

59/4
good start by the boys.

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 9:46 am

99/5.

Game is already end!!!

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:01 am

110/7

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:12 am

118/10

Yuzvendra Singh Chahal 5/22

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:32 am

wow. total domination. ODI kings indeed.

louie_db9 · Postby **louie_db9** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 12:00 pm

India need 2 runs to win and they go off for lunch.

Fu cking stupid decision.

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 12:16 pm

What a ridiculous decision, they go for lunch with India needing 2 to win.The umpires need to be shot.

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:21 pm

target reached within 20 overs. IPL fever started early. hahahahahaha

raja · Postby **raja** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 4:34 pm

Team BCCI is on a roll here.
Looks like that Johannesburg Test lifted them so much that even the players who weren't part of it are now inspired to a different level.
Wonderful to see Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav pick up wickets again.
This BCCI squad, led from the front by Kohli, is on its way to all-time greatness.

squarecut · Postby **squarecut** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 5:40 pm

South Africa too selected two wrist spinners, just like Indians, hoping to beat India at their own game.

Outcome- Indian wrist spinners toyed with South African batsmen. Later, Indian batsmen toyed with South African wrist spinners.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 9:01 pm

raja wrote:Team BCCI is on a roll here.
Looks like that Johannesburg Test lifted them so much that even the players who weren't part of it are now inspired to a different level.
Wonderful to see Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav pick up wickets again.
This BCCI squad, led from the front by Kohli, is on its way to all-time greatness.

You need to use some sort of code to help tell your jinxed apart from genuine praise

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Mon Feb 05, 2018 3:35 am

Congrats India

bolero · Postby **bolero** » Mon Feb 05, 2018 3:44 am

Boycs wrote:
raja wrote:Team BCCI is on a roll here.
Looks like that Johannesburg Test lifted them so much that even the players who weren't part of it are now inspired to a different level.
Wonderful to see Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav pick up wickets again.
This BCCI squad, led from the front by Kohli, is on its way to all-time greatness.

You need to use some sort of code to help tell your jinxed apart from genuine praise

It can get confusing at times.As you don't know which team he is actually supporting.

Probably Raja prefers it that way.

raja · Postby **raja** » Mon Feb 05, 2018 10:05 am

bolero wrote:
Boycs wrote:You need to use some sort of code to help tell your jinxed apart from genuine praise

It can get confusing at times.As you don't know which team he is actually supporting.
Probably Raja prefers it that way.

Yes, predictability is a dampener. Ask Bhajji. :-)

Rather keep batsmen guessing.
Like a Kuldeep Yadav does.

One simple rule of thumb in my case though.
If I'm praising BCCI quicks, it's most probably genuine.
If I'm praising BCCI batsmen, it's most probably not.
Exception is when they've genuinely impressed me - like when they showed character in Joburg.
But this is rare.
If I'm praising Rohit Sharma (or any Mumbaikar), it's most likely very grudging. :-)