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Sourav Ganguly: South Africa could have upper hand in Dharamshala conditions for 1st T20I

Sourav Ganguly suggested how the conditions of Dharamshala, which may be the venue to the first Twenty20 International (T20I) between India and South Africa, will suit the visitors because it is a day and night match from the northern component of India. “Over the time, a great number of overseas players have played a great deal of cricket from the sub-continent due to IPL which will be an edge in getting utilized to conditions quickly,” the previous Indian skipper added. The marathon series between their countries that is certainly scheduled to start with on Friday includes three T20Is, five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) as well as Mahatma Gandhi-Nelson Mandela four-match Test series. READ: India vs South Africa 1st T20 at Dharamsala, Preview: India make an effort to stamp authority from the comfort of the start
Also, Ganguly is looking to watch India’s shorter format’s skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni bat at No.4. “It would have been a very positive come in Bangladesh and I hope he continues doing so within the shortest format from the game,” he stated.

According to Times of India, Ganguly opined that however the visitors use a superb away record, the task ahead of them this time around is the length on the tour given that they have never played in India for this sort of long stretch of their time and how quickly they adapt would be the key for the series. “It is often a fact that South Africa never have lost an away series since 2006, nevertheless the biggest challenge with the Proteas on this occasion around would be the 72-day tour. They will have to stay in a mindset whereby they are able to easily adapt to this type of long tour and turn into hungry and determined in Indian conditions, where they've got to travel the gap and breadth in the country without losing focus,” he stated.

“On paper, each side look evenly poised. South Africa get some big names inside their ranks using the likes of Hashim Amla, Dale Steyn, AB de Villiers, Morne Morkel, JP Duminy being the seasoned ones. They also have talents like David Miller, Faf du Plessis and spin attack is going to be led by Imran Tahir, who is often a wily customer. He will have a very huge role to experience as the series progresses,” the CAB president added. READ: Dale Steyn: South Africa don’t mind underdogs tag for ODI, T20I series vs India

Meanwhile for India he stated it are going to be a good opportunity to remain the good work after their successful tour of Sri Lanka. “They have a very young bowling department plus the attack will probably be tested against quality South African batting. India have gone within a lot of spinners inside T20 series and it will likely be interesting to find out how MS Dhoni handles his bowling attack,” he explained.

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