Rebels’ bowling woes
NZPA-AAP Johannesburg The odds on an Australian cricket victory in the deciding international against the Springboks slipped yesterday with the rebels’ four front-line bowlers on the injury list. Carl Rackemann, Rodney Hogg, Terry Alderman and Rod McCurdy were all receiving treatment just 48 hours before the start of the five-day “test” at the Wanderers ground in Johannesburg tomorrow. Barring a miracle, the captain, Kim Hughes, has written off McCurdy’s
chances of playing. To add to the rebels’ woes, Hogg was forced to leave the field late yesterday with a sore heel, and doubts have also emerged over the fitness of Terry Aiderman who left the field with a strained hip muscle against Northern Transvaal yesterday. Hughes also disclosed that Rackemann, who has been rested since the second drawn international in Cape Town, has a chest problem. “It’s a bronchial infection of some description, but I hope he’ll be fully fit,” said Hughes.
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