HYDRATED AND LEANER
Philander out to go bug free for Old Trafford Test
Manchester — Vernon Philander hopes to see more of the fourth Test between England and SA‚ which starts at Old Trafford on Friday‚ than he did of the previous match. Much of The Oval Test was hidden from his view by a hospital ward wall or a toilet door. Philander came down with a virus on the first morning‚ and spent most of the match shuttling between the bathroom and the boundary — and the second night of the game in hospital. "I’m feeling a lot more hydrated‚" Philander‚ who was visibly leaner than a week ago‚ said on Wednesday. "It was a lot worse having to bowl having lost a lot of fluid‚ from the top and the bottom. "That was always the issue — being on the loo and then having to go out and bowl. I couldn’t keep anything down." Consequently‚ Philander bowled only 32 of the 183.1 overs the Proteas sent down in the match‚ which England won by 239 runs to take an unassailable 2-1 series lead. His share of the overs was 17.4%. In the second Test at Trent Bridge he bowled 23 of th...
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