Tuesday, December 14, 2010

India set sights on last frontier in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG: Boosted by its No. 1 ranking, India embark on its fifth attempt to win a Test cricket series in South Africa this week.

Having lost all four contests since South Africa's readmission to international cricket in 1992, India begins its latest attempt on Thursday at Centurion's SuperSport Park - where it has never played a Test and where the hosts have won 11 of 15 matches.

The three-match series is viewed as the final frontier for the sport's current dominant team in the five-day format.

India has won seven of nine series, drawing the other two, to top the rankings. However, only one of those wins _ against New Zealand in 2008-09 _ was outside the Asian subcontinent and away from India's preferred slow and batter-friendly pitches
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