Brave decision, I’d say.

SA team: GC Smith, HH Gibbs, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AG Prince, AB de Villiers, MV Boucher, SM Pollock, A Nel, M Ntini, DW Steyn

Biggest test of Jaffer's test career.

Steyn opens the bowling for SA, interesting!!

1st over safely negotiated by Jaffer.

1st 3 overs played out harmlessly.

Finally, India and Sehwag off the mark.

I guess the prematch thread is turning into an official match thread.

No harm in that, cricindia.

Ind: 0/8

Steyn replaced by Pollock after bowling just 2 overs.

Wasn't he fit enough in the first place?

steyn is spraying a lot..isnt probing batsmen at all. That and smith said steyn was going to be used in short bursts.

Jaffer gone.

Sehwag gone as well.

the more things change the more they remain the same

Was just a matter of time, really.

Probably now, Dravid and Chappell would've been thinking about their idiocy of leaving out Pathan and making Jaffer open the batting.

I dont think sehwag edged that..but was given out. maybe im missing something..but i definitely didnt see an edge.

never mind..snickometer proved it.

So, Dravid's bravado turned out to be false, as expected. This man seems really inept in taking decision at the toss. Anyone remembers his famous decision to bowl first at Mumbai against England earlier this year? Not that he is alone on this decision, Chappell must have been a party to it.

Now, can Dravid make critics like me eat crow?

Quite strange that india chose to bat after all the accusations of us cooking the pitch LOL.

GO SA !!!

Remembering Pollock's verbal intensity of appeal against Das 5 years ago at PE, no way any umpire could've given Sehwag not out.

dravid got a very nasty one. hit right ont he chest. the ball probably hit one of the cracks. Thinking abotu the 4th innings, dravid probably chose to bat.there is uneven bounce..some late movement. Its not easy out there.

What a pathetic pitch !

From what I can see it looks better than the majority of pitches in the VB series All I can say is the Indians chose to bat it was your choice dont complain about it now. LOL

SA Cricket Board should be officialy reprimanded by ICC for preparing this shocker.

the ptich is very two-paced. Uneven bounce. You just gotta wonder how bad it will get as the match progresses and the cracks open up.