England v South Africa 2017 – Approaching milestones

Here are approaching milestones for the players to keep an eye on during the England vs South Africa Test series:

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England’s Joe Root with teammates. (Photo by JON SUPER/AFP/Getty Images)

The Test series between England and South Africa will witness the teams fighting out to move up in the rankings especially the home side who will be a team to be watched out for under the new captain Joe Root. At the same time, the players will be looking at achieving some individual milestones which could witness few of them entering elite lists.

Here are the players’ approaching milestones to look out for during the England vs South Africa Test series:

98 – Wickets Moeen Ali has taken so far in Tests; he needs 2 more wickets to become the 7th off-spinner from England to take 100 Test wickets.

391 – Wickets Morne Morkel has taken in first-class cricket so far; he needs 9 more wickets to complete 400 wickets in his first-class career.

798 – Wickets James Anderson has picked so far in the first-class cricket; he needs to take 2 more wickets to complete 800 FC wickets.

849 – Runs Temba Bavuma has scored in his Test career so far; he needs 151 more runs to complete 1000 Test runs.

995 – Runs Alastair Cook has scored against South Africa in Tests; he has scored 1000 Test runs against 6 out of 7 oppositions he has played more than 10 Tests except for SA.

1902 – Runs Ben Stokes has scored so far in Tests; he needs 98 more runs to complete 2000 runs in this format.

1927 – Runs Moeen Ali has scored in Test cricket so far; he needs 73 more runs to complete 2000 Test runs. If he scores 73 more runs and takes 2 more wickets, he will be the 7th England player to score 2000 runs and take 100 wickets in Test cricket.

7952 – Runs Hashim Amla has aggregated in the Test format so far; he needs 48 more runs to become the 30th player and 4th from South Africa to score 8000 Test runs.

9833 – Runs Moeen Ali has scored in his first-class career so far. He needs 167 more runs to join the elite list of players with 10000 runs in the first-class format.

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