India will take on South Africa in the third and final Test match in Ranchi tomorrow. India have already won the three-match Test series 2-0 after beating the Proteas in Visakhapatnam and Pune. India will look up to the dead rubber to make a clean sweep and consolidate their position atop the World Test Championships standings.
A depleted squad hampers their chances all right, but that’s just a side story. With the JSCA pitch unlikely to offer any unpredictability, the visitors will have very little ‘elbow room’ to cause an upset. On a level playing field, Kohli’s India are head and shoulders above du Plessis’s South Africa in terms of quality.