Australia focused on clean sweep

Third Test, Cape Town:
South Africa v Australia
Date: 19-23 March Start time: 0830 GMT
Coverage: Live on Sky Sports, live scorecard on BBC Sport website

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Australia hope to complete a 3-0 clean sweep in the final Test against South Africa, starting on Thursday.

With captain Graeme Smith sidelined by a broken finger, South Africa will be led by Jacques Kallis in Cape Town.

Smith's absence and the dropping of Neil McKenzie means uncapped Imraan Khan will open with Ashwell Prince.

All-rounder Albie Morkel is set to replace his brother Morne, while Australia may give a debut to leg-spinner Bryce McGain.

It is Australia's final Test before this summer's Ashes series in England but batsman Mike Hussey says they will stay focused on the job in hand and will not be distracted by changes in the South African team.

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"We'll do our strong preparation on their new players coming in and make sure we have good plans against them," he said.

"But I think we're still developing our team and our team culture. We've got to keep worrying about what we're doing. We can't really afford to concentrate on our opponents.

It's important that we keep the momentum going our way Mike Hussey

"We're a young group, still trying to develop our own way and our own culture.

"So it's important that we keep the momentum going our way and keep putting in place the key things we want to take forward leading into the next Test series."

"I think back to when we played against India in Australia (in January 2008) there were similar sort of talk.

"We were 2-0 up in the series, there was a lot of controversy going around and it sort of pulled their team together a bit tighter.

"We'll do our strong preparation on their new players coming in and make sure we have good plans against them."

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South Africa (from): Jacques Kallis (capt), Hashim Amla, Mark Boucher (wk), AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Paul Harris, Imraan Khan, Albie Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Wayne Parnell, Ashwell Prince, Dale Steyn.

Australia (from): Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Doug Bollinger, Brett Geeves, Brad Haddin (wk), Nathan Hauritz, Ben Hilfenhaus, Phillip Hughes, Mike Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Simon Katich, Andrew McDonald, Bryce McGain, Steve Magoffin, Marcus North, Peter Siddle.