3rd Test India Vs South Africa at Kanpur Preview Plus Live Sopcast Streaming

by cricker | April 10, 2008 at 10:58 am
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India after going down 1-0 in Test Series is now looking over Kanpur's Green Park to take revenge from South Africa and draw the series 1-1 whereas South Africa is hoping to get another glorious win and become the first side to win in India since Australia in 2004 but both team are concered about the pitch has produced more draws then result. But after India's embrassing lost in Ahmedabad test,curator had much harder to make the pitch to suit Indian Tradition. Looking to pitch one could suggest that pitch is extremely dry with no grass on it plus it may broke on third day giving spin thee advantage so overall the Toss is going to critical one which might decide the faith of this test and both captain will be looking to win and choose to bat first.

3rd Test India Vs South Africa at Kanpur Live Sopcast Streaming

With bounce is expected to be low so Dale Steyn's pace can help South Africa steal some wickets of India and put pressure over them to win the test .If they win the test G Smith will be broking some fabulous records ,he will become country's most successful captain after equalling Hansie Cronje's record of 27 victories in Ahmedabad.

As nature of pitch and doubt over kumble's fitness,Harbahajan singh will be the player to be watch and will be the biggest threat to South African camp. He is doing pretty good in this series and taken 8 wickets at 28.62 in Kanpur and might prove the main bowler for Indian Team.

From South Africa side ,Styen is the player to be watched out in this test as he is doing sparkling in this series and had put Indian Batsmen is fear. If bounce remains low he could turn out to be fatal for Indian Batting.

Team News :
Injury is turning out to be India's biggest problem in this series, as Kumble fitness is looking under suspicous, Ramesh Powar might get chance to be in squad and become the third spinner to go with Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla. Irfan is looking pretty much ready to take Indian pace attack and become partner of Sreesanth with the new ball.

Smith is most certain to take the winning Squad in the Kanpur test .Even though the pitch is expected to assist spin, and they have Robin Pietersen as another left-arm option,but South Africa is looking more confident with Paul Harris in the team.

India (probable): 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Wasim Jaffer, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 VVS Laxman, 5 Sourav Ganguly, 6 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), 7 Anil Kumble (capt), 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Sreesanth, 11 Ishant Sharma.

South Africa (probable): 1 Neil McKenzie, 2 Graeme Smith (capt), 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 Ashwell Prince, 6 AB de Villiers, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Morne Morkel, 9 Paul Harris, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Makhaya Ntini.

Umpires: Billy Doctrove and Asad Rauf.

Some facts :

#  The Green Park has been a happy hunting ground for Kumble, who sits at second in the wicket-takers' list with 25 scalps in seven Tests.

# South Africa have played two Tests in Kanpur. They lost by 280 runs in 1996 and drew in 2004.

3rd Test India Vs South Africa at Kanpur Live Sopcast Streaming

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