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'Well rested Indian spinners will look to dominate'

Sat 5 Dec 2015, 8:04 pm

'Well rested Indian spinners will look to dominate'
Summary

Shaun Pollock says Indian spinners and seam bowlers are well rested and they will look to make a big impact

On day-three, India continued to assert their dominance on South Africa. It was slow going; just 190 runs for four wickets, so it was a patient day of Test cricket. Now we enter day four, which so far has been unchartered territory in this Test series. Can Virat Kohli get his first hundred and can Ajinkya Rahane get his second in the match? The fact that India haven't declared yet, means they will give them both an opportunity to see if they can reach the milestone. Then it will be a case of when they declare and South Africa will then have a role to do. The pitch is getting more difficult as you go on with the odd one keeping either up or low. The Indian spinners will be well rested as well as the seamers. They will be coming in and hoping to make a huge impact on day-four. They will look to dominate and finish the Test and wrap up the series 3-0. The only hope for South Africa is going to be batting for long periods of time. When the declaration comes, South Africa will have to tick off the overs one by one. One needs to see if they can manage to combat the Indian bowling line-up and manage to draw the Test match.