Lack of acclimatisation will hurt India
Peter Roebuck, writing in the Hindu , says India's preparation for the three-Test series in South Africa has been amateurish even though some of their players got there early.
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Peter Roebuck, writing in the Hindu, says India's preparation for the three-Test series in South Africa has been amateurish even though some of their players got there early.
By arriving a few days before the start of the campaign the Indians have reduced their chances of toppling their hosts. They are not playing a bunch of ne'er do wells but the second-ranked side in the world, and a team eager for an execution. Moreover the sides are competing for the title recently vacated by an Australia line-up that had ruled for 15 years and is now suffering a partial eclipse.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo