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1 England begin their winter tour of South Africa this evening.
Eoin Morgan’s side take on the Proteas in three T20s and three ODIs and we’ll bring you every ball live across the talkSPORT network.
England take on South Africa this winter ahead of the T20 World Cup next year
England were last in action in September when they lost a thrilling one-day series 2-1 to old rivals Australia.
They will want to bounce back but face a tough test in their tour of South Africa, which will get under way with a T20 clash in Cape Town this Friday.
England's schedule in South Africa
Friday, November 27: 1st T20 (Cape Town)
Sunday, November 29: 2nd T20 (Paarl)
Tuesday, December 1: 3rd T20 (Cape Town)
Friday, December 4: 1st ODI (Cape Town)
Sunday, December 6: 2nd ODI (Paarl)
Wednesday, December 9: 3rd ODI (Cape Town)
England’s tour of South Africa: How to listen
We will bring fans over 60 hours of coverage across talkSPORT and talkSPORT 2 this winter, including the warm up games, two hour-long preview shows and a daily 30 minute podcast.
We’ll also have all the action from the games in Cape Town and Paarl over the coming weeks.
To follow ball-by-ball action on talkSPORT 2, download the talkSPORT app, listen at talkSPORT.com HERE or click the radio player below.
Our coverage of the first T20 this Friday gets going at 3pm on talkSPORT 2.
England’s tour of South Africa: 1st T20 teams
England
Jos Buttler(wk), Jason Roy, Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Eoin Morgan(c), Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Jofra Archer, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid
South Africa
Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock(c)(wk), Faf du Plessis, Rassie van der Dussen, Heinrich Klaasen, Pite van Biljon, George Linde, Beuran Hendricks, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi
England’s tour of South Africa: What has been said?
Jonny Bairstow has said England’s strength in depth in white ball cricket is scary as they get ready to face South Africa.
“It’s a very fortunate place to be in with England as a white ball team,” Bairstow told talkSPORT.
“You’ve got [Chris[ Woakes and [Joe] Root not in the T20 squad currently but they are an integral parts of the ODI team.
“It’s amazing and each day when you are at training you are watching people and saying ‘oh, that’s good’. Or someone could be watching you and saying ‘jeez, how did you do that?’
“Continuously developing and learning off each other is part of it.”
English (United States)