South Africa vs India 2013: 5 reasons why India would play better in the Test series

3. Test match allows you to recuperate from a bad start

South Africa vs India

There has been a lot of talk that India hasn’t managed to get off to a good start, both with the bat and ball and they have been made to pay for it by a relentless South African pace battery.

What Test match cricket could do to India is, even if they don’t manage to get off to a decent start, either with the bat or ball, the duration of 5-day cricket will allow India to claw their way back into the game, one, that was not possible in the ODI series.