ENGLAND TOUR
Why AB de Villiers is a worry for Proteas
The one-day series against England will serve as rehearsals for the real thing: the Champions Trophy
Half-centuries for Hashim Amla‚ Faf du Plessis and David Miller and three wickets for Chris Morris were the highlights of SA’s tour-match victory against Northamptonshire on Sunday. The lowlight was the absence of AB de Villiers‚ who also missed the first match of the tour against Sussex on Friday with a respiratory problem. SA will want De Villiers back for the one-day series against England, which starts at Headingley on Wednesday‚ continues at The Rose Bowl on Saturday and ends at Lord’s on Monday. These matches will serve as rehearsals for the real thing: the Champions Trophy in which SA will play their first match, against Sri Lanka, at The Oval next Saturday. That could be a challenging timeline for someone trying to shake off a bad case of the flu‚ and South Africans will hope De Villiers does. But until now‚ De Villiers’s team have not needed him — they followed their 66-run win over Sussex with a closer but still convincing 13-run success in Northampton. The South Africans ...
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