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Team India Test Record In South Africa: The two-match Test series between India and South Africa will begin on Tuesday (December 26). This is the 9th time that the Indian team is participating in the Test series in South Africa. The surprising thing here is that the Indian team has never won the entire 8 Test series played here so far. They lost 7 series and drew one series.
In 1992, Team India toured South Africa for the first time. After that, only in the year 2010-11 did Team India succeed in drawing the series here. Apart from this, they have been defeated in every tour. Team India played a total of 23 Test matches in South Africa. Out of these 23 matches, they won only 4 matches. Here 12 matches were lost and 7 matches were drawn. Based on these calculations, it is clear how difficult it has always been for Team India to win a Test in South Africa.
Will Rohit Sena change history this time..
It has a strong possibility. There are several reasons behind this possibility. The first thing is that the South African team looks weak this time. All the times the Indian team has toured South Africa so far, the Proteas look weak this time. The weakness of the Proteas team is the batting.
In fact, there are no good batsmen in this team after the top-5. Most of the batsmen in the top-5 are not in good form. Those who are in good form do not have much experience. Tony DeGeorge looks to be in good form. But, he has very little international experience. Dean Elgar, Keegan Pietersen are good Test players. But, they haven’t played international matches for a long time. Aiden Markram is a good batsman but not performing well in Tests, so there is Temba Bawuma who is doing average at the moment. After that, wicket keepers and all-rounders will start in the Proteas team. They have not proved to be very reliable with the bat.
In contrast, Team India’s batting line-up is very strong. There are good batsmen here till number 9. The biggest thing is that the batsmen are also in form. From Rohit Sharma to R Ashwin, everyone has proved themselves in red ball cricket.
Equal competition in bowling..
The bowling attack of both the teams looks equal. While the spin department of Team India is strong, South Africa looks a bit heavy in fast bowling. South Africa has fast bowlers like Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Marco Yansin, Andre Berger, Gerald Coetzee. They have Keshav Maharaj in the spin department. Here, Team India will lose Mohammed Shami here. This will put a big responsibility on Bumrah and Siraj. On the other hand, India has a legendary pair of Jadeja and Ashwin in the spin department.
The squads of both teams..
Indian Team: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Yashaswi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Ravi Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul, KS Bharat, Shardul Thakur, Mukesh Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasid.
South Africa Team: Temba Bavuma (capt), Tony De Jorgi, Dean Elgar, Aiden Markram, Keegan Pietersen, Marco Yansin, Vian Mulder, David Bedingham, Trestan Stubbs, Kyle Varenni, Nandre Berger, Gerald Coetzee, L Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada.
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