England's Ravi Bopara will let his bat do the talking if South Africa's bowlers start giving him any 'verbals' Fielding a side with only five first team regulars, Kent drew the match after reaching 105-0 in their second innings, the young pairing of Sam Northeast, 22, and Daniel Bell-Drummond, 19, not for the first time in the match, manhandling South Africa's vaunted pace attack with ease. Bopara received a fair bit of verbals from the Aussie bowlers and can probably expect the same from South Africa, though this time backed up by some serious pace. "Their attack is very good, they have all bases covered," said Bopara. The verbal side of things is a dangerous place to go - if you're going into verbals you have to perform. I got told a long time ago you do your talking with the bat and that's all I try to do. England have included options in their pace attack with both Steven Finn and Graham Onions included alongside the current men in possession, James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan. At the moment neither of the first two have done enough to displace Bresnan, though he does have a sore elbow. If that doesn't clear up by Thursday morning, it will be interesting to see whether they opt for Finn's pace or Onions" persistence in their bid to consolidate their position as Test cricket's No 1 team. England (from): AJ Strauss (Middlesex, captain), JM Anderson (Lancashire), IR Bell (Warwickshire), RS Bopara (Essex), TT Bresnan (Yorkshire), SCJ Broad (Nottinghamshire), AN Cook (Essex) ST Finn (Middlesex), G Onions (Durham), KP Pietersen (Surrey), MJ Prior (Sussex, wkt), GP Swann (Nottinghamshire), IJL Trott (Warwickshire).