County teamsheets point to unchanged England; CRICKET.

ENGLAND'S humbling first-Test defeat to South Africa led to the usual calls for a review of the balance of the bowling attack.

But yesterday's teamsheets in the LV= County Championship would appear to point towards an unchanged side for next week's second match at Headingley.

While the pre-series hype surrounded the battle between the two best pace attacks in the world, it was South Africa's fearsome top-order batsmen who hogged the limelight at the Oval as James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan combined for only two wickets.

Steven Finn and Graham Onions are ever-present as threats to the established trio - but both were on duty at Chesterle-Street yesterday morning as those who featured at the Oval rested up.

Finn took the new ball for Middlesex against Onions' Durham side, and ten economical pre-lunch overs yielded one wicket.

But Nottinghamshire took to the field without either Broad or spinner Graeme Swann among their number as they took two Sussex wickets in the first session.

A memory of England's recent past, on-loan Steve Harmison, provided Yorkshire's international pedigree in the absence of Bresnan, while Anderson's Lancashire are not in action this week.

Ravi Bopara's return to the side brought only 22 runs and a pair of sloppy dismissals but he will have no further opportunity to play himself into form with his side not in Championship action.