Foolish decision to drop Rahne and Dhavan..Rohit sharma can never be as good as Rahne..however hard he tries..He is Hitman of flat dead tracks..and that also in 20/50 over cricket.
Batting revolved around Kohli. When he is out hopes disappear. Now it is time that others come to the rescue of the team like Pandya did wonderfully well in the first innings of first test. Let us hope on Pujara, Rohit, Pandya and Parthiv and all of them are attacking batsmen excepting Pujara. If pujara keeps one end and if others give good support with some good scoring, India can win which gives series live. Let us hope for the best from the remaining INdian batsmen.
Re: India's batting
by Rajendra Uparkar on Jan 17, 2018 12:23 PM
The wicket is not easy to bat on with ball doing all kinds of tricks. You can not survive too long on this type of wicket if you play defensive game. What is needed is some bold approach which was shown by AB De Villiers in 1st inning of 1st test and 2nd inning of this test... But still 287 is a stiff target on this wicket and to me, India reaching even 200 looks remote possibility... There is less chance of Rohit scoring on this wicket and India has a long tail in Ishant, Shami & Bumrah.... India really missed Bhuvaneshwar in this match. In last test match, he had taken six wickets and batted well in both the innings besides being handy in the field and for some strange reasons, he was left out!
No one noticed that ball where kohli was out seems no ball.Not shown clear view of ball on cam but I think this was no ball and only one view were shown. .need re chek again this was no ball..wonder no one noticed
we have seen some great knocks in SA, by Sachin, Azhar, Dhoni, Kohli,they succeed when they play attacking cricket, The Wall Dravid scored only one century in SA and against SA. Even in last test Hardik played attacking cricket thats why he succeeded, so did Kohli in this test first innings. tomorrow if we play attacking cricket with small targets we can win or else whitewash of series
