BANGALORE, India (Reuters):
SOUTH AFRICA all rounder Jacques Kallis believes the current squad can go on to become the country's best ever one-day combination.
"There are many young guys in the side that are now producing their best," he said yesterday. "Once we get a bit more experience and play a lot more in the sub-continent as well, we are going to become a very good side."
The South Africans, who play the second one-dayer against India today, are unbeaten in 20 matches since January.
Leading 1-0 in the five-match series, they can equal one part of Australia's record of going unbeaten for 21 games in a row in 2003. However, Australia had won all of them.
BEST SQUAD
Kallis said South Africa's best squad was the one which reached the 1999 World Cup semi-final in England, where it was eliminated after a heartbreaking tie with Australia.
"We are well on our way to getting where we were with that 1999 side," he said. "That was probably our strongest side, this is going to become one of the strongest."
It has been an amazing turnaround for South Africa, who had just one win in their previous 13 games.
Paceman Charl Langeveldt is an injury concern after suffering a back injury in Hyderabad. India's Sachin Tendulkar will equal former Pakistan all rounder Wasim Akram's world record 356 one-day appearances when he turns out in the match.
Tendulkar already holds the records for one-day aggregate (13,875 runs), most hundreds (38), most consecutive matches (185) and Man-of-the-Match awards (51).
