Former skipper Bishan Singh Bedi believes it will be "testing times" for the India cricket team in South Africa but said it would be "unfair" to judge the young outfit so early.
The Indian team started their bilateral series against South Africa with a 0-2 thumping in the ODI series and Bedi said this tour will test the faith and determination of the players.
"Playing in South Africa is different then playing for an IPL team. It is testing times for India in South Africa but they can make it," Bedi said on the sidelines of a TERI program, where Nobel Laureate RK Pachauri, TERI director-general, was felicitated for taking 600 wickets in corporate cricket.
"It is important to have self belief and faith on themselves. They need to have the will and determination to do it."
Bedi was not happy with the curtailed bilateral series against South Africa and said it shoud have been better planned as the players didn't get enough time to prepare and acclimatise to the conditions.
"When this tour was organised why there was no talk about it. It shoud have been a five ODI and four Test series. The players should have got the time to practice. Even in Australia and England, we didn't prepare well, now also we have no preparation," said the legendary spinner, who took 266 wickets from 67 Tests.
