India skipper Virat Kohli checks the grip of his bat during a training session on the eve of the third and final Test against SA in Johannesburg yesterday. Pic/AFP

It is one of the great ironies of South African cricket that they have never beaten India at a ground they consider most conducive to producing a pitch that has pace and bounce. In four games here, India have drawn three and won in 2006-07 when S Sreesanth breathed fire. In 1997, South Africa were chasing 356 for victory and just about hung in there at 288 for eight, Daryl Cullinan, Lance Klusener and rain thwarting the visitors.