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Durban: The start of the second Test match between India and South Africa at Kingsmead in Durban was delayed due to rain on Sunday.
Reports are that the pitch will be inspected at 10.00am local time, which was originally slated to be the start of play. The toss has been delayed as well.
India are smarting from an innings and 25 runs defeat in Centurion, where their famed line-up capitulated so badly in the first innings that it became impossible to salvage the match in the second essay despite Sachin Tendulkar's historic 50th Test ton.
In their previous Tests at the ground, India managed a draw in 1992-93 but lost by 328 runs in 1996-97, and by 174 runs in 2006-07.
South Africa have a not-so-impressive recent record in Kingsmead suffering a couple of massive defeats at the venue in recent times (by 175 runs to Australia in 2008-09 and an innings and 98 runs against England last year).
The curator has promised a fair track which would have as much for the bowlers as for the batsmen and that should be music to Indian ears considering that the visiting batsmen seemed to have no clue on how to deal with short-pitched stuff on the Centurion pitch.
Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid and Dhoni himself showed they were in good touch at least in the second innings of the Centurion Test.
Their contribution would be crucial against the quality pace attack of the South Africans.
The tearaway pace duo of Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel decimated the Indian batting in the first innings and though they came in for some hammering in the second innings, they had done their job well enough much earlier to ensure a South African win.
On the batting front, the South Africans are no less despite the combined experience and accumulated runs of the Indians far exceeding theirs.
Graeme Smith, Alviro Petersen, Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis make for a top-order that any bowling line-up would find difficult to contain and given India's rather weak attack, it would once again be tough for the visitors to take 20 South African wickets.
Their top ranking is not exactly at stake but India's reputation certainly is and it would take quite an effort to keep that intact against a hostile opponent, which has also kept up the pressure with some bantering off the field.
