South Africa chose to bowl against India
Graeme Smith won a crucial toss after an hour's rain delay on a green track in Kingsmead and, to nobody's surprise, chose to bowl. Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel will be relishing the chance to bowl on this juicy pitch under overcast conditions, and look to repeat their Centurion demolition job. South Africa have gone in unchanged, resisting the temptation to field an all-pace attack by retaining Paul Harris.
India's batsmen need to show more backbone than they did on the first day of first Test, and their task became harder when opener Gautam Gambhir was ruled out due to an injured left hand. In his place comes M Vijay, who made a century and an important 37 in his previous Test, but the conditions in Durban couldn't be more different than the sluggish tracks of the Chinnaswamy. Cheteshwar Pujara, who starred in that Bangalore victory over Australia, gets his second Test cap, at the expense of Suresh Raina, who has been in abject form. The only other change is fast bowler Zaheer Khan returning to lead the attack.
Intermittent showers are predicted through the day, and India's task could be made harder by a stop-start day of cricket.
India (probable): 1 M Vijay, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 Cheteshwar Pujara, 7 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Sreesanth
South Africa: 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Alviro Petersen, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 Ashwell Prince, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Paul Harris, 9 Morne Morkel, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Lonwabo Tsotsobe
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