MS Dhoni stresses at India’s positives despite series loss to South Africa

Because, they have an impeccable winning record overseas in all conditions. But unless all 11 pull their weight, it’s not easy for a touring team to perform optimally while away from home.

Harman is the first from India’s side to play in the women’s Big Bash League and she believes her experience will help her in South Africa.

South Africa were bowled out in the tenth over after tea, with Mohammed Shami’s four wickets playing a key role in keeping India in the contest. You beat Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka and you then call them to India, for what? “The Indian players are so warm that they gave the driver tickets to bring his friends and family and in fact, I used one of those as one of my friends wanted to watch the game”, he added further.

Kohli started off admirably when he said: “We will ask the guys to be honest about what they were feeling at particular stages in the game”.

Only the Australian and English boards are serious about a full Test series.

“I expected it to be a given that after the Test match at Newlands, India would be back the next day, at that pitch having a net session”.

The rest of the bilateral series are mostly reduced to two or three matches. The result is that, when the conditions demand that a team apply itself, you get the lack of stomach for a fight the Indians have shown in the first two Tests the moment the going got tough. It is the same batsmen who scored tons of runs in the past year and helped India rise to the top rank in Test cricket. They lost the series 5-0 and that was also England’s first five-Test series sweep.

“Like many greats of the game, he too was shocked by the omission of Ajinkya Rahane in the playing eleven”. To win a Test match you need 20 wickets and we have taken 20 wickets. He survived a dropped chance on 46 when Bumrah put down a return catch, but fell to a near-replay in his next over, two short of his second fifty of the match. It was also a 17-member squad, Abbas Ali Baig joining from Oxford when Vijay Manjrekar had to undergo a knee surgery.

Centurion: Indomitable at home, India’s batsmen capitulated in the face of South Africa’s menacing pace attack to suffer a 135-run drubbing in the second Test here on Wednesday, ending a nine-series unbeaten run for Virat Kohli’s world no. 1 side. They need to detox from limited-overs’ cricket and start getting into Test mode.

How many can actually survive playing all formats. But the former captain feels that the current 0-2 drubbing in South Africa is not the end of the world for Virat Kohli’s boys because there are a “lot of positives” despite the losses. “He was named ICC Player of the Year, so it’s quite cool to go up against the best”, said Rabada, who echoed skipper Faf du Plessis’ view that India depend too much on Kohli.

Australia is one of the favourite places for Kohli to play cricket.