South Africa captain Graeme Smith won the toss and elected to bowl in the second Test against England at Lord’s here on Thursday. The match was Michael Vaughan’s first as England Test captain after Nasser Hussain resigned the post following Monday’s drawn first Test at Edgbaston.
England named an unchanged side for this match. But South Africa made two changes, unorthodox left-arm spinner Paul Adams replacing conventional left-armer Robin Peterson. And Easterns all-rounder Andrew Hall, 28 on Thursday, replaced left-arm seam bowler Charl Willoughby. Hall, not originally included in the Test squad but a member of the one-day party, was called up on Tuesday from English county Worcestershire. Adams’s last Test was the second Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka in April.
Hall last played Test cricket in the second match against Sri Lanka at Centurion in November 2002.
England: Marcus Trescothick, Michael Vaughan (capt), Mark Butcher, Nasser Hussain, Anthony McGrath, Alec Stewart (wkt), Andrew Flintoff, Ashley Giles, Darren Gough, Stephen Harmison, James Anderson
South Africa: Graeme Smith, Herschelle Gibbs, Gary Kirsten,
Boeta Dippenaar, Jacques Rudolph, Mark Boucher (wkt), Shaun
Pollock, Andrew Hall, Paul Adams, Dewald Pretorius, Makhaya Ntini
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WIS) and Darrell Hair (AUS)
TV umpire: Peter Willey (ENG)
Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SRI) – Sapa-AFP