When a team from subcontinent comes to South Africa, the focus lot would be on how the team cope up with the bounce and pace of these surfaces. It has been the story for years but this series is an exception of that, as Indian spinners turned the table around the clock.
That's where South African batsman struggled to cope up with the new found Indian wrist challenge. It's a known fact, South Africans struggle against spin, but this challenge of this quality in absence of their key players asking too much from their second string batsman.
India on the other hand, just away from two matches winning a Series in South Africa for the first time, and the prospect seems likely with the way things going for India. While India like this situation for sure but they want more fight from Proteas, to show their true potential.
Pitch and Conditions
It will be interesting to see, what the surface at Cape Town offers as Johannesburg and Durban proved to be on slower side so far.
South Africa
A lot of questions are waging in the Proteas dressing room, now the injury to Dekock makes them change things even more but it also gives younger players a chance to fulfil game time for Proteas ahead of their mission 2019.
Possible XI: 1 Hashim Amla 2 Aiden Markram (capt) 3 JP Duminy, 4 Khaya Zondo, 5 David Miller, 6 Farhaan Behardien/ Shamsi, 7 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 8 Chris Morris 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Morne Morkel 11 Imran Tahir
India
There is nothing for India to worry about as the wrist spinners winning the games for them, and the batsman's, and pacers doing the supporting roles well.
Playing XI: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Ajinkya Rahane, 5 MS Dhoni (wk), 6 Kedar Jadav, 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
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