Tendulkar’s superb century in the second innings after India had followed on…
Dale Steyn - the world’s most feared pacer, on Tuesday backed his country
South Africa to come out trumps in the three-Test series against India
to be held at the end of this year, but was also wary of the quality of
the opposing batting line-up.
“We have got a pretty good Test side at the moment, to be fair, and we
play quite well at home. I would like to say that we would win it.
Coming to South Africa, it is a difficult place to play cricket,” said
the world’s highest rated bowler on Tuesday.
“Wickets here are lot flatter than what it is in South Africa. It does
make it a little bit difficult for the Indian batsmen. However, cricket
is a funny game and India has got some fantastic players. Shikhar Dhawan
is batting nicely and they have got some great players. We will wait
for the next couple of months and see what happens,” said Steyn.
Steyn also heaped praise on Sachin Tendulkar and said the senior batsman is one of the most difficult batsmen to bowl at.
India drew the Test series 1-1 during their previous tour of South
Africa in 2010-11.
The pace spearhead of IPL team Sun Risers Hyderabad also heaped praise
on Sachin Tendulkar and said the senior batsman is one of the most
difficult batsmen to bowl at.
“There was a time in Nagpur (2009-10 Test series) and I was bowling to
Sachin, it felt like when I was bowling to all the other batters, I was
going past the bat and finding the edge, I was bamboozling them with
in-swing and away-swing. But Sachin knew exactly what I was going to
bowl before I even started running. He had me covered. He did his
homework on me and he knew exactly what was coming. There is no worse
feeling in knowing that whatever I threw at him, he had the arsenal to
combat. That was quite difficult,” Steyn said.
He was referring to the opening Test of the two-match series in
February, 2010 that was won by South Africa by an innings despite
Tendulkar’s superb century in the second innings after India had
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