England cricket team has announced their playing XI a day ahead of the start of the second Test match against South Africa at Trent Bridge. The hosts have retained the same playing XI for the second Test, which means that there was no place Toby Roland-Jones again. Comeback man Mark Wood has been retained ever after he took only one wicket in the first Test at Lord’s.

Meanwhile, South Africa has already suffered a big blow, as Kagiso Rabada will miss the match due to one-Test ban. He reached the four demerits points after the pacer abused after dismissing Ben Stokes the first innings at Lord’s.

His voice was recorded on the stump mic, which invited the ban for him. Though he continued the aggression in the next innings as well and went on to dismiss and tease Ben Stokes for the second time in the game, despite, he already knew he will be dropped for the next game. Andile Phehlukwayo leads the race to replace the young pacer. (Read Here: Kagiso Rabada Banned For Second Test)

Though there is a good news for them as well as Faf du Plessis is back and will lead the side in the second Test, taking over the duties from stand-in captain Dean Elgar. He missed the first Test match due to the birth of his child few days ahead of the Test match.

The visiting side is vying to make a comeback in the next game after suffering a defeat in the first Test. It was a shocking defeat as Proteas were expected to chase down a target of 331 in more than half a day they had in the bag but England needed only 36.4 overs to pack bags of South Africa on a score of 119, to hand them defeated by a big margin of 211. (Read Here: Kagiso Rabada Teases Ben Stokes After Dismissing Him)

The hosts will look to continue the winning run whereas a tough task awaits for the visitors where they have to make a comeback in the series and for that, they have bypass the hosts, which will be an arduous task for them.

England’s XI:

1 Alastair Cook, 2 Keaton Jennings, 3 Gary Ballance, 4 Joe Root (capt), 5 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Liam Dawson, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Mark Wood, 11 James Anderson