Cape Town (South Africa), Nov.8 (ANI): Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting believes South Africa could suffer from their lack of first-class preparation in the opening Test in Cape Town on Wednesday.
Five of the Proteas stars haven't played a longer-form game since January, while Australia enter the two-match series on the back of three Tests against Sri Lanka and a tour game against South Africa A in Potchefstroom.
Graeme Smith, Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers and Mark Boucher haven't pulled on the whites since the very start of the calendar year, and Ponting says Australia can take advantage.
"I'd like to think so, one of the things we felt might have been on our side in the one-day series was that we'd played a bit of cricket and the South Africans were coming off a long break," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Ponting, as saying.
He added: "Having a four-day game (in Potchefstroom), even though it was an indifferent wicket there, a few of our batsmen got some good quality time in the middle and a solid hit-out as well.
Ponting said: "We got from it what we could, we had an excellent training day yesterday, another one ... today and we'll lighten things up tomorrow (match eve on Tuesday)." (ANI)
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