Awesome win by SA and what a performance to pull this off against a quality attack. I reckon SA won 3 days of cricket all series but they made it count! India certainly had the batting and bowling to win this series and seemed that way till the last day in JHB. Even in Newlands, they seemed to have SA covered but SA were plain tough - very much like Elgar batting, you think you have him but he just keeps pushing and prodding and fights on.
At the end of the day, the 200 plays 200 suited SA and took out the fancy Indian batting line. The bowling line ups were a fair match but SA at home did the job and I thought Jansen was the dark horse who trumped the Indians. The SA batting is dodgy and KP was classy and played a few key knocks and Bavuma made some tough runs.
India competed excellently as expected but will be kicking themselves for not getting that series under the belt. Next time around, both team will look different and India probably missing some of the senior batters who should have had this series covered.
At the end of the day, the 200 plays 200 suited SA and took out the fancy Indian batting line. The bowling line ups were a fair match but SA at home did the job and I thought Jansen was the dark horse who trumped the Indians. The SA batting is dodgy and KP was classy and played a few key knocks and Bavuma made some tough runs.
India competed excellently as expected but will be kicking themselves for not getting that series under the belt. Next time around, both team will look different and India probably missing some of the senior batters who should have had this series covered.