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JOBURG’S DECK HAD NOTHING ON WHAT WE FACED!

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The Cricket Paper Team
2 February 2018

DEREK PRINGLE

Jumping Jack Flash: The Wanderers pitch provoked the umpires to take the players from the field on the evening of day three
PICTURE: Getty Images

Challenging but not dangerous… or a stinker on which the Test match should have been abandoned – two differing views of the Wanderers pitch upon which India won the third Test against South Africa recently by 63 runs.
Unsurprisingly, the first assessment comes from India’s Ajinkya Rahane, who made 9 and 48 batting in the middle-order, while the second comes from Dean Elgar, South Africa’s opening batsme...