African Safari:Mission Unaccomplished

After 5 days uncertainity the final test between INDIA and SA ended on a draw.The hope of making history in south african soil remained unfulfilled.We saw some brillient classy batting displays of Sachin and Kallis,good stroke making of Gauti,firebrand seambowling from Dale Steyn and Bhaji's attacking spin.1-1 is a good performance from the touring side after playing in home turf.Seamers could have done more disciplined and consistant bowling.As doubted before the middle order failed in this series.Lack of experience costs Pujara.Shewag was struggling for form.Indian batting still relying on top order.Sachin scored his 51th ton on new year test.Kallis,the calm customer made his 40th century surpassing ponting on the ton's table.In the 3rd test SA was struggling at 138-6,but Kallis showed his extreme talent despite of an injury and earned a highly aclaimed ton.Loose bowling of Indian seamers gave the proteas to post a fighting total of 341.Again chasing 340 runs in day five was not difficult for number 1 team,especially when you have Sachin in full flow.Recent news: Shewag is out of the ODI encouter against the proteas and Murali Vijay will open with Sachin in the limited version of the game.Let's see whether he will cement his WC place by grabing this chance.Pakistan is playing at New zeland but making news in South Africa and Australia.Taheer,a pakistan born cricketer got selected for ODI's against India and Usman Khawaja, a pakistani origin guy replaced Ricky Ponting in Sydney test.