South Africa successfully overcame England last year, taking the four-match Test series in England 2-1. It’s 4/1 for the Proteas to mirror their series correct score from last year and 16/1 they whitewash England 4-0.
Sky Bet’s Tim Reynolds said: “It will be a huge achievement if England can come away from South Africa with victory in both the one-day and the Test series but with James Anderson still struggling with a slight injury and Ryan Sidebottom only just coming back into action, the England bowlers may struggle to take 20 wickets in a match.”
Paul Collingwood, who was the leading runs scorer in the recent ODI series with 193 runs from his 3 innings, is 15/2 to be England’s leading scorer in the Test series with Kevin Pietersen, who topped the batsman averages in last year’s series against South Africa the 3/1 joint favourite along with Andrew Strauss. South African captain Graeme Smith, who averages 50.33 in Test cricket, is the 11/4 favourite to be the hosts top batsman with Abraham Benjamin de Villiers next best at 100/30 and Hashim Amla 9/2.
Following his figures of 5 for 42 in England’s final warm-up match Ryan Sidebottom is 7/1 to be England’s leading wicket taker. James Anderson heads the market at 2/1 and Stuart Broad, who was England’s leading wicket taker in the Ashes, is 3/1.
England are 11/4 to take the first Test (5/4 South Africa & 13/8 Drawn Test) and it’s 3/1 for the England captain Andrew Strauss to be England’s leading 1st innings batsman.
South Africa v England - Test Series
Win Outright
South Africa 4/6
Drawn Series 7/2
England 11/4
Correct Score
4-0 South Africa 16/1 0-0 Draw 33/1 4-0 England 50/1
3-0 South Africa 15/2 1-1 Draw 13/2 3-0 England 25/1
3-1 South Africa 9/1 2-2 Draw 9/1 3-1 England 20/1
2-0 South Africa 13/2 2-0 England 16/1
2-1 South Africa 4/1 2-1 England 6/1
1-0 South Africa 14/1 1-0 England 20/1
South Africa Most Series Runs
Smith G 11/4 Mclaren R 50/1
De Villiers A 10/3 Parnell W 200/1
Kallis J 9/2 De Wet F 200/1
Amla H 9/2 Harris P 200/1
Prince A 5/1 Morkel M 200/1
Duminy J 6/1 Steyn D 500/1
Peterson A 9/1 Ntini M 1000/1
Boucher M 28/1
England Most Series Runs
Pietersen K 3/1 Broad S 50/1
Strauss A 3/1 Rashid A 100/1
Trott J 10/3 Swann G 100/1
Cook A 5/1 Plunkett L 200/1
Collingwood P 15/2 Sidebottom R 500/1
Bell I 10/1 Davies M 1000/1
Prior M 10/1 Anderson J 1000/1
Wright L 20/1 Onions G 1000/1
Davies S 33/1
South Africa Most Series Wickets
Steyn D 7/4 Harris P 11/2
Morkel M 10/3 McLaren R 14/1
Parnell W 7/2 De Wet F 16/1
Ntini M 4/1 Kallis J 25/1
England Most Series Wickets
Anderson J 2/1 Plunkett L 14/1
Broad S 3/1 Davies M 16/1
Swann G 7/2 Wright L 16/1
Onions G 9/2 Rashid A 20/1
Sidebottom R 7/1
South Africa v England – 1st Test
Match Betting
South Africa 5/4
Draw 13/8
England 11/4
Smith G v Strauss A - 1st Test - Most Runs 1st Inns
Smith G 5/6
Strauss A 5/6
Kallis J v Pietersen K - 1st Test - Most Runs 1st Inns
Kallis J 5/6
Pietersen K 5/6
Amla H v Trott J - 1st Test - Most Runs 1st Inns
Trott J 4/5
Amla H 10/11
Duminy JP v Collingwood P - 1st Test - Most Runs 1st Inns
Duminy JP 5/6
Collingwood P 5/6