2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

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2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

The first game was washed out so we'll only get an idea as to how both sides are going in this game. India are expected to play 7 batsmen due to the pitch being quite seam friendly. This was the pitch in which Australia were bowled out for 93 over eight months ago. So, we could see some quite good performances from the bowlers.

Zaheer Khan has been in excellent form in the practice games and with Harhajan Singh's form picking himself, the selectors will have a tough time picking an XI. It is expected that Ajit Agarkar may miss the side.

South Africa will rely on their usual pace battery of Pollock, Ntini and Nel with Charl Langeveldt also there is support.

This match shapes up to be an interesting contest, it may go down to the wire!

South Africa XI (likely): 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Loots Bosman, 3 Herschelle Gibbs, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Justin Kemp, 8 Shaun Pollock, 9 Charl Langeveldt, 10 Andre Nel, 11 Makhaya Ntini.

India XI (likely): 1 Sachin Tendulkar, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Mohammad Kaif, 4 Rahul Dravid (capt), 5 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), 6 Suresh Raina, 7 Dinesh Mongia, 8 Irfan Pathan 9 Harbhajan Singh, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Munaf Patel.

Umpires: Chris Broad and Billy Doctrove

Weather:

(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)

Partly Cloudy.

Expected Minimum: 21
Expected Maximum: 26

Game starts at 8:30pm AWST (2:30pm local time, 12:30pm GMT)
 
Re: 2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

South Africa 4/190 in the 41st over. Kallis on 92, Boucher 22.
 
Re: 2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

South Africa made 8/248 from their 50 overs. A pretty good score considering the track they're playing on. Kallis made 119 not out, he played very well. De Villiers scored 41 with Nel smashing a late 22 down the order.

For the Indians, Patel, Zaheer Khan and Agarkar all got two wickets each.
 
Re: 2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

Pollock just picked up Kaif, his second wicket of the day.
India is 39-2 after 9 overs.

Tendulkar has scored 30 of India's 39 runs so far.
 
Re: 2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

Two quick wickets!
Dravid and Tendulkar are both out.
India is 67/4 and in a heap of trouble.
They're going to need Dhoni to rescue them.
 
Re: 2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

Raina gone.
India 82-5 after 22.3 overs, they now need 6 per over from here.
I'm thinking South Africa has this one in the bag.
 
Re: 2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

It gets worse, Dhoni and Mongia gone now too.
India 83/7 and this has turned into a slaughter.
 
Re: 2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

India all out for 91. South Africa win by 157 runs.

What a blowout! Nel got 4 wickets, and Kallis picked up another 3. Kallis will surely wind up man of the match, with his 119 runs too. Not a good way to start the series for India.
 
Re: 2nd ODI: South Africa vs India at Durban

Awful, awful India. They're tigers in their home (actually, not even that considering their horrible Champions Trophy performance) and sheep outside the subcontinent. Greg Chappell, Rahul Dravid and the lot will be under fire now. This is not the mental state of preparations to be in, going into World Cup.

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