Fantasy
Venue : Newlands, Cape Town
Average first innings score in last three years:223
0% of the games have been won by team batting first
Pacers have picked 96.97% of the wickets to fall here. Spinners have picked 3.03% of the wickets.
*all data from last 3 years
Suggested teams
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Top Run scorers at this venue
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Top wicket takers at this venue
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Grand League Punts
> KL Rahul is the only Indian batter to score Test hundreds in South Africa (2) after Virat Kohli's 153 in Centurion in 2018. One of the few fluent batters for India in the Centurion Test, Rahul is a must-pick player to make big bucks.
> Rohit Sharma average sonly 12.8 in South Africa. Kagiso Rabada has dimissed him seven times, the most for any pacer in Test cricket.
Probable XIs
South Africa: Dean Elgar ( c ), Aiden Markram, Tony de Zorzi, Keegan Petersen, Zubayr Hamza, David Bedingham, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Nandre Burger, Lungi Ngidi
India: Rohit Sharma ( c ), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna