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)
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)
