England Vs South Africa ODI Series: Venue, Schedule, Probable Playing 11, Everything You Need To Know!!

South Africa’s tour of England will start with the first ODI on Tuesday at the Riverside Ground. The English team lost the recently completed ODI series against India and would be expecting a better result from this series. This series would be followed by three T20Is and three Test matches.

South Africa would be without the limited-overs captain Temba Bavuma on this tour. He sustained an elbow injury during the T20I series against India last month. Veteran spinner Keshav Maharaj would be captaining the side in the ODI series while David Miller would be at the helm for the T20I series. Kagiso Rabada is also not a part of the squad and will be returning for T20I matches.

The 1st ODI will be a big one for Ben Stokes as he announced yesterday that the 1st ODI on Tuesday will be his last one as he announced retirement from ODI cricket.

Schedule for ODI Series:

  • 1st ODI- 19th July (Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street)
  • 2nd ODI- 22nd July(Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester)
  • 3rd ODI- 24th July (Headingley, Leeds)

Probable Playing 11:

England’s Playing 11: Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (c & wk), Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Craig Overton/Sam Curran, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley

South African Playing 11: Quinton de Kock (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Janneman Malan, Rassie van der Dussen, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Dwaine Pretorius, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj (c), Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje