Opportunity knocks for Chris Jordan to stake England ODI claim

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• Opportunity knocks for Chris Jordan to stake England ODI claim: Jordan is a regular in England’s Twenty20 team but the fast bowler had not featured in an ODI for three-and-a-half years until the series-opening seven-wicket defeat to South Africa at Cape Town on …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
  
• Mining Indaba: SA ‘lagging behind other mineral-rich countries in transparency’: Cape Town – A civil society anti-graft organisation is calling for greater openness in the mining industry to curb corruption and mismanagement. Corruption Watch, which is holding an “Alternative …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
  
• Chris Jordan promises England will turn it around again in South Africa: Aged 31 and with just 10 one-day wickets in nine 50-over games between his previous ODI outing in September 2016 and the opening fixture here in Cape Town, Jordan was something of a surprise selection …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
  
• Eoin Morgan expected to stand by Matt Parkinson despite opening ODI defeat to South Africa putting England in a spin: His average pace of 46mph is the slowest in CricViz, the database of cricket analysts, and on a slow pitch in Cape Town, Quinton de Kock and Temba Bavuma could hold back and play the turn or use their …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
  

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