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Major League Cricket: Australia’s fast bowling spearhead Mitchell Starc believes the intense off-field friction that once defined contests against South Africa has largely dissolved, adding that there is certainly ‘no animosity left’ between the two teams ahead of the first Test starting at Kingsmead on October 9.

Australia will return to the venue eight years after the volatile 2018 series, remembered more for the altercations between players from both sides and the Sandpaper gate. Before the Tests, Starc is set to headline the bowling attack in the first ODI to be played at Kingsmead on Thursday.

"I think there's certainly no animosity there. I think there's two teams quite well known to one another across the franchise (T20) world. Not just myself, but a scattering of the other guys have played with and against each other for a few years.   Read More...