• Ashley Giles: ‘We’ll be desperate if Jim was injured again’• Bowler will have scan on side strain later on Wednesday
England are “holding their breath” over Jimmy Anderson’s latest injury. Anderson, who took seven wickets in England’s second Test win against
South Africa, is to undergo scans on a side injury after struggling through the fifth day at Newlands.
“He’s been such a great servant that we’re holding our breath and [have] fingers crossed for him,” Ashley Giles, director of
England men’s cricket, told
BBC Radio 5Live. “We’ll be desperate if Jim was injured again. He’s worked so hard to get back in the team. He bowled like a demon in that first innings and that mix of youth and experience we have in the team is just so valuable. We certainly don’t think it’s a recurrence of his previous injury.”