5 reasons why South Africa could suffer a whitewash in the Test series

The Indian team walks off the field after winning the 1st TestIt was just the start that South Africa did not want to their 4-match Test series against India. A dusty pitch, an in-form trio of spinners, some attacking captaincy and a poor batting display by the Proteas batsmen proved to be the perfect recipe for disaster. With the home team gaining the upper hand after the first bout, the visitors need to pull up their socks and fast or else the world’s No. 1 Test team might as well suffer a degrading whitewash. Here are 5 reasons why we think that this may be on the cards:

#1 More turning pitches on the horizon

Imran Tahir liked what he saw on the Mohali pitch. Unfortunately, the South African batsmen didn’t

Rarely has a pitch in Mohali behaved in the manner that it did in the 1st Test of the India-South Africa series. It started to turn prodigiously from Day 1 and most batsmen from both sides struggled to get runs on the board.

With Indian skipper Virat Kohli and team director Ravi Shastri advocating the preparation of pitches which suit India’s core strength, which is spin bowling, there is every chance that the ones in Bangalore, Nagpur and Delhi will also be on the same lines.

Considering the poor technique shown by the visiting batsmen on a rank turner, they may not fare too well in the rest of the series also unless they are able to bring about a drastic change in approach.