The third Investec Ashes Test will stamp the end of a time for English cricket. Surprisingly since the fourth Test against West Indies in Antigua in 2004, 139 matches back, England will take the field in a Test match without a player conceived in southern Africa.
At the point when England came back from Antigua - the match in which Brian Lara broke the world record with his mammoth 400 not out - Johannesburg-conceived Andrew Strauss, who had been in the squad for the West Indies visit, was chosen to open the batting against New Zealand at Lord's. From that point, the southern African ancestry has keep running from Strauss, through Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Jonathan Trott, Nick Compton up to Gary Ballance, who was conceived in Zimbabwe, dissimilar to the others, who are all South Africa-conceived.
Altogether, these six southern African-conceived players (all batsmen, interestingly) have won 359 tops in that period, scoring 66 centuries. Two of the mentors who topped these players - Duncan Fletcher and Andy Flower - were both Zimbabwe internationals, in spite of the fact that the recent was conceived in Cape Town. Strauss, Trott, Pietersen and Prior made up four of England's main seven in 30 Tests somewhere around 2009 and Strauss' retirement in 2012.
Ballance has been substituted for the Edgbaston Test by Jonny Bairstow, leaving Ben Stokes as the main player conceived abroad in an England XI frequently censured throughout the years for the far-flung origination of its charges.
Since Strauss appeared, England have additionally chosen players conceived in Australia, Ireland, Barbados and even Denmark, while any semblance of Michael Lumb, Craig Kieswetter, Jade Dernbach, Stuart Meaker and Jason Roy have all played white-ball cricket, having been conceived in South Africa. Be that as it may, the choice of English cricketers conceived in southern Africa is not only a 11-year-old sensation, with any semblance of Basil D'Oliveira, Allan Lamb and Graeme Hick all conceived there.
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