1st ODI: India vs South Africa at Belfast
The first of these matches starts in Ireland today with India playing South Africa. Both teams have a couple of players who are less experienced than the rest so it will be interesting to see how they go in their respective sides. In a bizarre move, India have taken a 19-man squad to Ireland, for what reason is unknown although with many of the squad feeling sick, it's probably a good thing they took 19!!
South Africa have a couple of selection troubles. Vernon Philander's brilliant debut gives the selectors something to think about. Philander's problem is that the Proteas have various fast bowling options so it could prove a difficult task to break into the side despite such a good Twenty20 performance.
Should prove a good game though, both teams keen to get off to a good start to this series with plenty more cricket still to be played here and in Scotland.
India (probable): 1 Sourav Ganguly, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Gautham Gambhir, 4 Rahul Dravid*, 5 Yuvraj Singh, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Dinesh Karthik+, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Rakesh Patel, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Sreesanth
South Africa (probable): 1 AB de Villiers, 2 Morne van Wyk, 3 Jacques Kallis*, 4 Herschelle Gibbs, 5 JP Duminy, 6 Justin Kemp, 7 Mark Boucher+, 8 Andrew Hall, 9 Charl Langeveldt, 10 Makhaya Ntini, 11 Dale Steyn
Umpires: Aleem Dar and Mark Benson
3rd Umpire: Billy Bowden
Weather
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Light Rain developing late in the day, 12.
Game starts at 5:45pm AWST (10:45am local time, 9:45am GMT).
The first of these matches starts in Ireland today with India playing South Africa. Both teams have a couple of players who are less experienced than the rest so it will be interesting to see how they go in their respective sides. In a bizarre move, India have taken a 19-man squad to Ireland, for what reason is unknown although with many of the squad feeling sick, it's probably a good thing they took 19!!
South Africa have a couple of selection troubles. Vernon Philander's brilliant debut gives the selectors something to think about. Philander's problem is that the Proteas have various fast bowling options so it could prove a difficult task to break into the side despite such a good Twenty20 performance.
Should prove a good game though, both teams keen to get off to a good start to this series with plenty more cricket still to be played here and in Scotland.
India (probable): 1 Sourav Ganguly, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Gautham Gambhir, 4 Rahul Dravid*, 5 Yuvraj Singh, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Dinesh Karthik+, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Rakesh Patel, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Sreesanth
South Africa (probable): 1 AB de Villiers, 2 Morne van Wyk, 3 Jacques Kallis*, 4 Herschelle Gibbs, 5 JP Duminy, 6 Justin Kemp, 7 Mark Boucher+, 8 Andrew Hall, 9 Charl Langeveldt, 10 Makhaya Ntini, 11 Dale Steyn
Umpires: Aleem Dar and Mark Benson
3rd Umpire: Billy Bowden
Weather
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Light Rain developing late in the day, 12.
Game starts at 5:45pm AWST (10:45am local time, 9:45am GMT).
