South Africa vs England 1st ODI Live Streaming
South Africa duly won a farcically one-sided contest by 84 runs (and by 17 sixes to six), in a declaration of intent that has since been backed up by Mickey Arthur's bellicose comments in the press. "No more Mr Nice Guys" is the message being sent out, and England's South African middle-order of Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen can expect to bear the brunt of the new nasty edge.Pietersen, however, has seen it all before - nothing will ever compare to the reception he received on his first tour to South Africa in 2004-05, and on that occasion he responded with three centuries in five innings. Trott, meanwhile, has been one of England's most consistent performers on the tour so far, most recently in the warm-up at Potchefstroom, where he made 78 from 89 balls to overcome South Africa A.
England's biggest concerns are all internal ones, with two players - Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad - already ruled out of the first two ODIs, and a host of key players, including Paul Collingwood and James Anderson, fighting for full fitness. Andrew Strauss, who missed the Twenty20s, returns to resume his rivalry with Smith, the man whom he refused a runner during an heroic but futile century in the Champions Trophy back in September.
South Africa squad
GC Smith*, HM Amla, J Botha, MV Boucher†, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, JH Kallis, CK Langeveldt, R McLaren, JA Morkel, WD Parnell, AN Petersen, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe, RE van der Merwe
England squad
AJ Strauss*, JM Anderson, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, PD Collingwood, AN Cook, JL Denly, SI Mahmood, EJG Morgan, G Onions, KP Pietersen, LE Plunkett, MJ Prior†, AU Rashid, GP Swann, JC Tredwell, IJL Trott, LJ Wright
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