Proteas' home dominance versus India's slow rise: Has the South African press been over-aggressive?

The greatest ever Indian side abroad?

Team India seem too heavily dependent on their skipper

While the pacers performed creditably in South African conditions, picking up 20 wickets in all the games of the Test series, they failed to play a match-winning role. Failing to deliver the knock-out punch when South Africa were 9/3 on the first day of the first Test proved costly.

India's fast bowling attack is arguably the best we have had in some time but failed to extract the pace and bounce off the wicket as their South African counterparts did.

The spinners won the ODI series for India, but cannot be expected to do the same in Test matches in England in a few months' time. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, and Jasprit Bumrah will have to adapt to English conditions fast.

Excessive dependence on Virat Kohli can prove to be India's undoing in the future, with no other batsmen performing consistently.

A few shortcomings apart, the Indian cricket team have rewritten history in the true sense of the term which will hopefully make the world reconsider their rather skeptical view of India's recent superiority in the world of cricket.