SA vs IND 2018: "India's best team to have toured South Africa"- Daryll Cullinan

India won two out of the three trophies available on their tour of South Africa. After losing the Test series 1-2 the Indian team came back in the limited overs format as they won both ODI and T20 series.

The Virat Kohli led Indian team was in complete command in the limited overs format as they won the six-match ODI series 5-1. They then completed a T20I series win on Saturday as they won the final of the tour by seven runs.

Out of the 12 matches across all the formats, India won eight matches having lost the first two Tests and then one each in the ODI and T20 series.

The Indian team has earned great appreciation from around the world, and some of the former cricketers have praised this Indian team. This was the first time India won a bilateral 50 over series in South Africa in 25 years.

Many former South African players have praised the Indian team and have rated this Indian team as the best team to tour South Africa.

On this occasion, it’s the former South African batsman Daryll Cullinan who has rated the Virat Kohli led the team as the best team to tour the Rainbow nation.

Here is the thread of the interview:

Has India’s dominance over South Africa in the limited-overs leg surprised you?

Very much so. I didn’t think that South Africa will play so badly, or that India will play that well. The ODI series has shown that India are a very good side, a very balanced side in that format. South Africa, on the other hand, gave the opportunity to some of their fringe players to give an impression about how good they are, and what is pretty clear is that they’re going to have to do a lot of work. But, I expected South Africa to be a lot better, and I didn’t expect India to be as good as they have been.

Do you believe this is the best Indian team to have set foot in South Africa?

I think limited-overs, this is surely India’s best team to have toured South Africa. In terms of Test cricket, it was probably the most balanced and all-round Indian side. That said, if you had to look at it from a result point of view, I would say this is the best Indian team to come here.

Across all formats?

Yes. If they had a better chance to prepare and got here much earlier, they may have done a lot better in Tests as well. But certainly by the first Test, they were playing good cricket.

So you’d put the difference of the results between the Tests and limited-overs series purely down to preparation?

I think so. India arriving here for the Test series from the sub-continent was always going to pose a difficult challenge, particularly when it comes to batting in South Africa. We saw the quality of cricket that India played from the third Test match onwards, after they got two tough games under their belt. So, I think they would’ve walked away with the Test series win as well had they prepared better for it.

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