• Updates as the Proteas host Australia in Gqeberha

  • Start at 9.45am local/6.45pm AEDT/8.45am BST

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You can email me, of course, like Simon D has done: “I’m a pom - living in Aberdeen for my sins - I’m not in the slightest bit bothered about the three way hit and giggle fest going on in Pakistan at the minute. But this... this is gripping. I bloody love Test cricket.”

That’s the stuff, Simon. Though I will say the concept of an ODI tri-series is now also sufficiently retro that it almost belongs in the same category. Things to please traditionalists. In fact, there are two ODI tri-series happening simultaneously. England and Sri Lanka are in Pakistan, as you say, while Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are up to the final of their own version in the UAE.

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