SOUTH AFRICA could be without Kagiso Rabada for South Africa’s four-day game against England A (“England Lions,” as the ECB would have it) that starts Tuesday at Canterbury.

And today, captain Dean Elgar was unwilling to say whether Rabada would be fit for the first Test, at Lord’s on August 17, after the quickie missed the final T20 against England through injury.

“I think that’s maybe the biggest concern: whether he can carry himself throughout a Test match with the intensity and volume of overs in a day’s play,” Elgar said.

“For now he’s doing all the right things, I can’t say yes or no as yet because there are eight, nine days out before we play the first Test but it is high on our list to get him fit.”