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Kyle Abbott says the pressure is 'building on England'

South Africa's Kyle Abbott will join Worcestershire in July 2016
Image: Kyle Abbott is confident South Africa can maintain their winning record in the annual Pink match

South African seam bowler Kyle Abbott believes the pressure is starting to build on England in the one-day international series.

The tourists currently lead the five-match series 2-1 but the sides' next meeting is in the annual Pink match - in which South Africa have a perfect record of three wins in three games.

Abbott and his team mates will take to the field at the Wanderers wearing pink - instead of their accustomed green and yellow, in support of breast-cancer charities and awareness - something they have done for the past three years at the venue.

We've done our research on England, so we're pretty confident that we can keep them quiet.
Kyle Abbott

"We have got a good record here, not only in pink, but in ODIs at the Wanderers," he said.

"It doesn't happen in one or two overs and I hope we can keep up our record and put a bit more pressure on in this series, which I think is building more on them than us at the moment."

South Africa knocked off 318 for eight at SuperSport Park, and were in pursuit of 399 for nine in the series-opener in Bloemfontein last week when a storm broke and consigned them to a Duckworth-Lewis defeat.

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Abbott added: "Chasing 320 the other night gives us a lot of confidence - because we feel in that first game as well, we were in the mix.

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"We've got our plans; we've done our research on (England), so we're pretty confident that we can keep them quiet."

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