India opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan negotiates a bouncer on Day Four of the first Test against South Africa at the Newlands cricket ground in Cape Town on Tuesday. Pic/AFP

For the first time since the inaugural series in 1992-93, an Indian batsman did not score a hundred in a Cape Town Test. Hardik Pandya nearly scored one on Day Two of the recently-concluded Test, but couldn't join Sachin Tendulkar (twice), Mohammed Azharuddin and Wasim Jaffer as Test centurions in Newlands. Pundits reckoned Cape Town would provide the Indian batsmen the best chance in the series to score substantially, but it went pear-shaped So, will the pitches in Centurion (January 13-17) and Johannesburg (January 24-28), the venues of the second and third Test respectively be better-suited to India?