Rain hits SA preparation
South Africa's preparations for next week's first Test against England suffered a setback on Saturday after rain washed out play in their tour match against Kent.
The Proteas were restricted to just 90 minutes of batting before a downpour washed out the middle day of their final warm-up match at Canterbury with the tourists on 108 for two.
South Africa's assistant coach Russell Domingo brushed off concerns his side might suffer from a lack of match practice.
"I reckon if we were here for a month we'd still struggle to get in a lot of preparation," he said, referring to the wet weather.
"I'm not worried. We had such a good week of preparation in Switzerland - the guys were almost saying 'we're mentally ready to play already'.
"Whether we practised with 10 games, or three games or two games, I don't think it would make too much difference - because the guys are mentally ready. They're fired up to go and do this."
Report Day 1
KENT: SA Northeast (capt), DJ Bell-Drummond, BW Harmison, MJ Powell, AJ Blake, SW Billings (wk), MT Coles, SJ Cook, AEN Riley, IAA Thomas, CE Shreck
SOUTH AFRICANS GC Smith (capt), AN Petersen, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AB de Villiers (wk), JA Rudolph, JP Duminy, VD Philander, DW Steyn, M Morkel, Imran Tahir
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