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I think I read same before India tour to South Africa that it will be a piece of cake for India but India lost both Test and ODI series.
Afghanistan is coming to India for playing 3 ODIs and since its home soil for Indian players, that's a big plus for them since they rarely lose on there own pitches. But we still cant rule out the fact that Afghanistan can do some upset.
The expectation for India's tour of South Africa was there because South Africa was literally having a much weaker side and India toured Australia and England and everyone expected the South African tour would be a cake walk but South Africa played really well and showed they can still depend any team in their background.
When it comes to home series, it is a difficult to defeat India if they are playing with their best squad and since they are experimenting with the team all the time giving opportunities to young players and if they think that they need to try young talents then there is a chance for Afghanistan to defeat India, if not it is a hard task for them.
I think against Afghanistan, India is going to try their luck and give the new players a chance to play for the national side and also look how the players do who are new to the international scene.
And I think that will surely give the opponent a good chance of beating India. Back I don't think that India is going to face that much problem from Afghanistan.
Afghanistan still can't be compared to the other test playing nations. They started playing cricket very recently and the first national team was established in the 1990s. On the other hand, South Africa has a cricketing history of more than two centuries and even now they are one of the best in the world. Their poor performance at the international level is not because they don't have talent. Rather, it is due to the fact that a number of their best players emigrate to other countries such as New Zealand and England to escape the quota system.
South Africa is still one of the best teams to play cricket ever. Over the years they have produced a lot of quality cricketers like Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, Quinton de Kock, Hashim Amla, and a lot of others.
But they have a lot of problems with their board. And the quota system is absolutely bad for the overall cricket in South Africa. A Lot of young prospects are not being able to show what they are worth for this system.