CENTURION, South Africa: Virat Kohli bruised from being fired as India's one-day captain bids to rebound by leading his country to an historic triumph in South Africa in a three-match Test series which starts at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Sunday ."We have worked really hard to win series away from India," said vice-captain KL Rahul at India's pre-match press conference on Friday.
Despite losing to New Zealand in last year's world Test championship final, India are the top-ranked Test team, five places ahead of South Africa, who have lost several key players to retirement in recent years.Crucially, it has the fast-bowling fire power to match South Africa's in conditions which usually favour pace.Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ishant Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav and reserve wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha are on their fourth tour of the country.
Rahul indicated India were likely to maintain their recent strategy of picking five bowlers, which he acknowledged would lead to a"very difficult discussion" about settling on five specialist batsmen.India have the luxury of choosing between capable players in both batting and bowling, while South Africa's options seem limited, especially since fast bowler Anrich Nortje withdrew from the series because of a hip injury.
Elgar confirmed star wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock was only available for the first Test and will then take paternity leave, which will leave the home team's batting even more vulnerable.Much will depend on former world number one Kagiso Rabada, whose form in the past two years has been moderate.
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