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Willey manages more swing but less accuracy, straying onto the pads repeatedly to give Bavuma two twos and a three. de Kock adds another two, so South Africa have a little bonanza without scoring a four.
We have an email! “I reckon that missing XI beats this team 7 times out of 10,” says Ben Duxbury. “The top 3 looks miles better than this one for a start.” Buttler and Matthew Mott are certainly showing a lot of faith in Jason Roy, whose bad patch has turned into a proper slump.Archer runs in nice and easy, as if he’d never been away. Quinton de Kock treats him the same way he treated Willey, waiting for the one bad ball, which is overpitched and pushed back past the bowler for four.
1 Jonny Bairstow, 2 Alex Hales, 3 Joe Root, 4 Phil Salt , 5 Ben Stokes , 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Liam Dawson, 9 Mark Wood, 10 Saqib Mahmood, 11 Reece Topley.In fact, no classic right-arm seamer: Buttler has gone with two quicks, two lefties, a leggie and an offie. Bags of variety, but they may miss Woakes as the innings goes on and Archer, who has been bowling only four overs every couple of days, gets tired. “It’s gonna be a long day,” he says, “but I’m ready for it.
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