"Graeme has resumed batting. He has had some throw-downs in the nets and he is progressing," team spokesman Michael Owen-Smith was quoted as saying in the Herald Sun.

The injury kept Smith out of the third Test in Cape Town and the two Twenty20 internationals which followed.

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Earlier, the opening batsman broke little finger on his left hand while facing Johnson in the Sydney Test in January.

However, star South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis who suffered a groin strain while bowling in the Cape Town Test, appears less likely to return to the side for first one-dayer, the daily reported.

"We'll just have to assess him when he gets to Durban early this week," Owen-Smith said.