The highest total of the Newlands, Cape Town venue is 651 scored by the home team South Africa in 2009 against Australia. On 2 January 2016 England’s team posted the second-highest total of this Cape Town cricket ground 629/6d against the home team South Africa. F du Plessis played 16 innings on this venue and his average is 40.80. D Elgar also played 16 innings and his average is 48.83. Q de Kock played eight innings on this ground and his average is 39.12. VD Philander is the third most wicket-taker of all time on this venue with 51 wickets in ten matches. K Rabada took 30 wickets in five matches.
From this Basil D’Oliveira Trophy’s first test here are some top performers stats: Q de Kock is the leading runs scorer with 129 runs. RJ Burns scored 93, JL Denly 81, VD Philander 81, JE Root 77 and HE van der Dussen 57. K Rabada took seven wickets and JC Archer took six. SCJ Broad, A Nortje and SM Curran all three of them took five wickets each.
Watch ENG v SA Cricket Highlights Videos today – 2nd Test, England Tour Of South Africa from Newlands, Cape Town (South Africa) Friday, 03-01-2020.
England win the toss and bat.
South Africa team: 1 Dean Elgar, 2 Pieter Malan, 3 Zubayr Hamza, 4 Faf du Plessis (capt), 5 Rassie van der Dussen, 6 Quinton de Kock (wk), 7 Dwaine Pretorius, 8 Vernon Philander, 9 Keshav Maharaj, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Anrich Nortje.
England team: 1 Dom Sibley, 2 Zak Crawley, 3 Joe Denly, 4 Joe Root (capt), 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Ollie Pope, 7 Jos Buttler (wk), 8 Sam Curran, 9 Dom Bess, 10 James Anderson, 11 Stuart Broad.
Match Timings: 08:30 GMT | 10:30 Local
Umpires – Kumar Dharmasena, AustraliaPaul Reiffel
TV Umpires – Chris Gaffaney
Match Referee – Andy Pycroft
Reserve Umpire – Allahudien Paleker
Match number – Test no. 2379
