CAPE TOWN — South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has warned his team against complacency as they take a 1-0 series lead into the second test against England, from whom he expects a backlash at Newlands on Friday. “There is a lot that still needs to happen for us to go where we want to go as a test team. “For me it’s about understanding as a team that the standards need to go up a little bit. Bavuma’s exclusion means that South Africa are dispensing with their racial quota for team selection where every team should have at least two black Africans and four others from the country’s mixed-race and Indian communities. South Africa fell short of that target in Pretoria and will do so again in the second test but Du Plessis looked to downplay a potential controversy.

Source: National Post January 02, 2020 13:41 UTC