Alastair Cook has confirmed Chris Woakes will replace the injured James Anderson in England’s team for the first Test against South Africa, which starts in Durban on Saturday.
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Results of a scan on his right calf will be known today, when England’s all-time leading wicket-taker will be ruled in or out of the side for the Boxing Day Test.
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Pietersen said that both sides must address the fragility in their batting orders, with England too dependent on captain Alastair Cook and Joe Root and the hosts relying on Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers.
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The series is also important for South Africa to hold on to its top spot in the ICC Team rankings for Test cricket.
Middle Order: South Africa’s most prolific and dependent batsman AB de Villiers looks to settle beautifully in the middle order, with most of the team’s batting revolving around him.
“Hopefully, we can go out and produce something really special out there”. Over the course of the next four Test matches they will be the key men who can win the Basil D’Oliveira Trophy for either England or South Africa. But where it is easy to say that they have won only one of the four Test series they have played this year, only in the UAE have they lost. “All the batters have showed some ability and it was good to see in both games that we scored runs”.
England’s 1-0 defeat in 1995-96 was the tour in which Michael Atherton batted for almost 11 hours to earn a draw in Johannesburg, while South Africa’s 2-1 win four years later included the ‘leather jacket Test’, when disgraced former Proteas captain Hansie Cronje was paid to corruptly ensure that the fifth Test did not end in a draw.
Fast forward 18 months, and South Africa are being spoken about as a side in decline, even though the retirement of an out-of-form Alviro Petersen is the only loss in personnel in that time. “He’s been one of the better bowlers in the world for a few years”, Amla told reporters, two days ahead of the series opener. The confident talk of how things will be all right once they get back to home conditions has something of a hollow ring to it. If England are a side on the way up, then they will quite possibly meet and perhaps pass South Africa on the way down.
“With Steven Finn coming back and bowling nicely we’ve got good depth to cover his niggle”.
Broad, who explained what being attack leader means, insists his regular new ball partner will still have a strong input into the plans. “Both teams have had some challenges in their previous series but being at home is great for us, we have a good record here”. “He’s learned his trade and it’s about him delivering now on the big stage for England”.
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Meanwhile Bayliss has promised Stuart Broad his limited-overs career is not over, despite also omitting him from the one-day squad.
