After a humiliating defeat at centurian despite of Sachin's 50th ton,finally team India beat the proteos at Durban.Team India played very well in each and every department than their counter part South Africa.The test will be remembered for 'Very Very Special' Laxman's heroic innings,full flow of Indian seamers and also Bhajji's classics.Again this test will remind the failure of Murali Vijay and Cheteswar Pujara.However India gained its overall 2nd victory at the SA soil.On Last 2006 tour we won the 1st test at j'berg after a ODI brown wash 0-4 aganist the host SA.That test had the memorable peformances of dada and malabar express(sreesanth).But India lost the remaining tests.Hope MSD will not repeat those mistakes.Now we should proceed towards the team selection of world cup.Two tests has been played after the announcement of priliminary squad.People may say that it is unjustified to judge players for just 1 or 2 games,but if yusuf picked for one century at final game then why not ?Before the selection India will play 1 T20 and 3 ODI's aganist SA.I had earlier doubted that lower middle order will face problems at South Africa and that happens. Both Raina(ODI specialist, but forced to display test temperament) and Pujara(future Laxman) both failed to make a mark.But I think it's not over for Pujara as am sure that he will get another chance in the 3rd test.Raina will have to wait for the T20 and ODI's to justify his WC candidature.Vijay missed his oppertunity but still a contender for WC berth as it will depend on selectors whether they will pick keeper-batsman parthiv(Chota Hayden) or batsman Vijay(Tamilnadu-lobby ) as additional opener.Yuvraj,who has been struggling for form benefited for not playing this test series and will be given preference over Raina in the middle order in upcoming ODI series.Sreesanth and Ishant played good but with expensive average.They have to work hard to break the ice.It is my personal opinion that selectors will face difficulty to pick seamer for the world cup.Finally congratulation to 'god' Sachin for 50th ton and best of luck to men-in-blue for 3rd test.HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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