After Pakistan's successful visit to South Africa where it beat South Africa 2-1 in the 3-matches series ODI and stunned the hosts, Indian team marches into New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg to play its first ODI against South Africa.
Looking back, South Africa and India have played only two ODIs against each other since March 2011. The first was at the World Cup that India went on to win. South Africa beat the hosts by three wickets in Nagpur, in a match that seemed to indicate they were capable of breaking their major tournament jinx. They staged the perfect chase, going after a target of 297 with ruthlessness.
India's first tour to South Africa was called the Friendship tour but this one has already gone some way to becoming the unfriendly one. With emotions running high over the shortened tour and a Wanderers crowd known for being boisterous, India can expect a hostile reception at the Bullring. The day before the match, there were only 6500 tickets remaining out of a total of over 30,000 and even with thundershowers forecast, the Johannesburg faithful are unlikely to stay away.
Squads:
South Africa: AB de Villiers*, HM Amla, Q de Kock†, JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, JH Kallis, R McLaren, DA Miller, M Morkel, WD Parnell, VD Philander, GC Smith, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe
India: MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, S Dhawan, RA Jadeja, V Kohli, B Kumar, A Mishra, Mohammed Shami, AM Rahane, SK Raina, AT Rayudu, I Sharma, MM Sharma, RG Sharma, UT Yadav, Yuvraj Singh
Umpires AT Holdstock and RK Illingworth
India have won 22 of the 31 ODIs they have played this year and have the highest win percentage of all teams who have participated in more than five matches - 73.33. So let us see how India fares this tour of South Africa, starting today.
The match is scheduled for December 5 at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg at 13:30 local time (11:30 GMT)
References: ESPN Cricinfo
India's first tour to South Africa was called the Friendship tour but this one has already gone some way to becoming the unfriendly one. With emotions running high over the shortened tour and a Wanderers crowd known for being boisterous, India can expect a hostile reception at the Bullring. The day before the match, there were only 6500 tickets remaining out of a total of over 30,000 and even with thundershowers forecast, the Johannesburg faithful are unlikely to stay away.
Squads:
South Africa: AB de Villiers*, HM Amla, Q de Kock†, JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, JH Kallis, R McLaren, DA Miller, M Morkel, WD Parnell, VD Philander, GC Smith, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe
India: MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, S Dhawan, RA Jadeja, V Kohli, B Kumar, A Mishra, Mohammed Shami, AM Rahane, SK Raina, AT Rayudu, I Sharma, MM Sharma, RG Sharma, UT Yadav, Yuvraj Singh
Umpires AT Holdstock and RK Illingworth
India have won 22 of the 31 ODIs they have played this year and have the highest win percentage of all teams who have participated in more than five matches - 73.33. So let us see how India fares this tour of South Africa, starting today.
The match is scheduled for December 5 at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg at 13:30 local time (11:30 GMT)
References: ESPN Cricinfo
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