what is the reason for poor performance by india against SA??

I think the best batsmen who can plan well in this kind of situation are Shewag, Sachin, Sourav, Laksman and Dravid. The best bowlers were Agarkar and Kumble. Yesterday we have only Sachin and Dravid to save the team. In a very good bowling pitch, it is foolish to depend on only 2 batsmen out of 7. All the other batsmen don’t have good experience in this kind of bouncing pitches. It is obvious that are we going to loose. It is not a wise move to play against such a good team with only young players. All criticism should go to the Selection committee.

yeah friend i was thinking the same....the reason might be the inside politics going on in the team with dravid and ganguly at odds with each other...now of course the team will suffer when these type of problems are there... Same problems are there with Pakistan team(though nowadays no such politics is there) but when Pakistanis have wasim akram or imran khan in their team politics was there...and you may remember the defeat that Pakistan faced at the hands of Bangladesh.

I totally disagree with u. It is ofcourse the pitch factor !! All our WORLD KNOWN BATSMEN can only play on flat tracks comfortably where the ball comes just nicely to the bat. And they hv proven it time n again. I dont think theres any satisfactory instance of playing gud at bouncy n fast pithces by Indian batsmen. They are always struggling on pitches other than flat n slow. REASON ??? Our domestic pitches. Guess its also the reason y we dont hv class seam bowler too.