India vs South Africa 3rd ODI Live Streaming

India vs South Africa Series 2011 – 3rd ODI
Teams: India vs South Africa
Venue: Cape Town
Date: 18 January 2011
Timing: 19:05 local | 08:35 GMT | 14:05 IST

India will need to bat much better than what they have in the first couple of games. Both batsmen and bowlers did not do well in the first game and while the bowlers improved in the second match, the batsmen were worse off in the second ODI.

The bad news is that Sachin Tendulkar is off the series with an injury and will have to be replaced. It remains to be seen who comes in place of him – Yusuf Pathan may replace him in the team but who will open the innings is a big question-mark.

South Africa squad
GC Smith*, HM Amla, J Botha, AB de Villiers†, JP Duminy, F du Plessis, Imran Tahir, CA Ingram, DA Miller, M Morkel, WD Parnell, RJ Peterson, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe

India squad
MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, PP Chawla, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, V Kohli, A Nehra, MM Patel, PA Patel, YK Pathan, SK Raina, I Sharma, RG Sharma, S Sreesanth, M Vijay, Yuvraj Singh

South Africa will be relieved to not have to deal with the openers but they still have puzzles in their own game to solve. They were soundly beaten in Gwalior and got close in the first ODI only because of Dale Steyn and Wayne Parnell’s performances – with the bat. Their batting order, apart from AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis, hasn’t pulled its weight. They will hope Hashim Amla can build on the momentum he showed in a cameo in the second ODI but, in the absence of Graeme Smith, much depends on Herschelle Gibbs.

India squad
MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, RA Jadeja, KD Karthik, V Kohli, A Mishra, A Mithun, A Nehra, YK Pathan, SK Raina, RG Sharma, S Sreesanth, S Tyagi, M Vijay

South Africa squad
JH Kallis*, HM Amla, LL Bosman, J Botha, MV Boucher†, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, HH Gibbs, CK Langeveldt, JA Morkel, M Morkel, WD Parnell, AN Petersen, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe, RE van der Merwe