The famous St George’s Park brass band parp proudly at the 2018 Test vs Australia. (Image credit: Getty Images).
England produced their best Test performance in almost a year to level the series at Newlands. South Africa look re-energised after a dreadful 2019, but have the biggest of big issues to grapple with. With the series balanced on a knife-edge, we look at who could come in and who miss out at Port Elizabeth.
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England have hired the experienced and skilful off-spinner Jeetan Patel (middle) for the T20I leg of the tour of New Zealand. He’ll replace former Pakistan stalwart Saqlain Mushtaq (left) as spin bowling consultant - but the ECB’s 5-year-long failure to replace Mushtaq Ahmed (right) as permanent spin bowling coach is inexcusable.
England’s men haven't had a full-time spin bowling coach for 5 years. So why does the world's second-richest board maintain a short-sighted policy of hiring temporary consultants to fix a permanent shortcoming?
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