SA’s finest players are starring in the franchise T20 competition, even as their major Test opponents this summer‚ India and Australia‚ are engaged at the highest level. The Indians‚ who beat Sri Lanka by an innings in Nagpur on Monday‚ will have played three games in each format against the Lankans by the time they take to Newlands for the first Test on January 5. Also‚ Australia won the first of their five Ashes Tests against England by 10 wickets in Brisbane on Monday. The Aussies will play four one-day internationals and at least four T20s before winging their way westward for a Test series that starts at Kingsmead on March 1. And the only first-class cricket SA will see before they face India is a four-day‚ day/night game against Zimbabwe at St George’s Park beginning on December 26. It has been billed as a Test match but is likely to be closer in intensity and usefulness — to SA‚ at least — to a tour match. The South Africans will be hardened to the task by the time the Austra...
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