SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF INDIA, 2019 by Ganesh Chandrasekaran • Last updated on ShareTweet Du Plessis has lost nine tosses in a row in the sub continent. © Getty So what’s ailing South Africa on this tour? Is it the batting, that has struggled to set things up for the bowlers? Could it be that their bowlers have been outperformed by their counterparts? There’s enough to build strong cases for both. But it’s indisputable though that these problems are interwoven. Would it help the batting then, if they didn’t come out looking at daunting first innings scores set by India? There’s more than a good chance that it might, they believe. At least it has now come to a point where Faf du Plessis, South Africa’s captain, who has now lost nine successive tosses in Asia, is desperate to even the odds for his team. And so, he might probably someone else to toss the coin, he revealed in his pre-match press conference in Ranchi. The toss has played an all-important role right through this series and preceding ones in India. No team likes to bat fourth, when the pitches tend to kill a batsman’s ego. And 2-0 down, the… Read full this story
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