"If you come back I'll take my hand off your pressure point..."
Kevin Pietersen will today begin his one-day leadership of the England side and his first big step has been to persuade his old mucker Steve Harmison to come out of one-day retirement.
Harmison returns after retiring in October 2006, with Ryan Sidebottom still suffering from a bad case of hip and groin-knack. Pietersen's new look attacking batting line-up should finally get the chance to actually bat, after their two games this week against Scotland and South Africa were abandoned because of rain. They began in Scotland, went down to Durham, and now find themselves in Leeds looking for better weather.
Owais Shah will be at three, Flintoff at five while Matt Prior is expected to open with Ian Bell. After an impressive display against Scotland, Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan could well keep his place despite Harmison's recall.
England (from): K Pietersen (capt), I Bell, M Prior (wkt), O
Shah, A Flintoff, R Bopara, S Patel, L Wright, T Bresnan, S Broad, J
Anderson, A Cook, G Swann, S Harmison.
South Africa (from): G Smith (capt), H Gibbs, J Kallis, AB de
Villiers, JP Duminy, M Boucher (wkt), V Philander, J Botha, M Morkel, D
Steyn, M Ntini, H Amla, J Ontong.