Alastair Cook and Alex Hales both need runs in the fourth Test,while Steven Finn’s absence offers an opportunity for a seamer, as England seek a 3-0 winThese days it is tough to inform whether a match such as this Test in Centurion is the conclude of the long haul or near the start of the next campaign. The circus always has the broad top erected somewhere it seems.
This will be the 17th and final Test match that England have played in the sequence since the first Test in Antigua in the middle of last April. But it is also the third of the 17 they will have played by Christmas this calendar year. That will be 31 Test matches in 20 months. No wonder Stuart Broad is taking more Test wickets than anyone else these days.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com