South Africa coach Mickey Arthur said the aim was to get Boucher fit for the first Test against the Australians in Johannesburg on 26 February.
But Kiwi coach Gary Kemble is certain he will be fit for the second Test.
Kallis now has a month to get himself fit for the Test series, due to begin at Centurion on 16 December.
Ponting will be fit for the second Test, in Sydney, despite suffering more pain than expected from his injured elbow in Melbourne.
Flintoff now faces a race to be fit for the final Test at The Oval on 20 August, his last before he retires.
Giles feels confident he will be match-fit for the first Test, starting on 23 November, even though he is out of practice in the middle.
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The United Arab Emirates businessman passed the Premier League 'fit and proper person' test in July but the ownership deal has yet to go through.
England are cautious over Plunkett, who would face a fight with Sajid Mahood for his place in the Test XI even if fit.
These suspicions will continue to dog the takeover deal, and there are still major issues of plurality as well as the "fit and proper person" test.
Gough has been advised by a specialist to rest for a further two weeks, and faces a battle to be fit in time for the third Test at his home ground, Headingley, starting on 22 August.
"The priority for us is the Test matches, and we need to get him fit and ready for them, " the coach explained.
The spinner should, however, be fit in time to play a full role in the Test series against Australia which starts in mid-December.
Al Faraj, 40, a property developer in the Middle East has already passed the Premier League's fit and proper test.
He spent Thursday's morning session in the fourth Test receiving physiotherapy in the dressing room in a bid to get fit again.
"I want to stress we got some really good results from that trip, " said Strauss, who added that he hoped Anderson would be fit "well before" the Brisbane Test.
The group also called for a tightening up of the FA's Fit and Proper Persons Test for potential club owners, saying that debt plans should be taken into account, and that proposed takeovers should be rejected "where it is considered against the long-term interests of the club".
Scotland's head coach Andy Robinson had hoped the scrum-half would be fit to play at least a part of the two-match Test against Argentina.
Al Fahim has been named Pompey chairman after passing the Premier League's fit and proper person test.
Chainrai and any directors he wants to appoint must now pass the Premier League's fit and proper persons test, but there is every likelihood his tenure will be brief.
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Pompey announced on 21 July they have agreed in principle to a takeover by United Arab Emirates tycoon Sulaiman Al Fahim after the 32-year-old passed the Premier League's fit and proper person test.
But I'm looking to be fully fit and available for selection when the Test series in Sri Lanka comes around and my goal is now to get strong, get my fingers right for that series, and give it a red hot go if given the chance.
If the punishment stands, he may be in violation of the Football League's 'fit and proper person test'.
The report said that a "fit and proper persons test" should be introduced for all club owners and directors.
In addition, it passes the Levi's change pocket test on loose fit jeans, but is pretty uncomfortable in there (or any pocket, for that matter) on a tight pair.
In order to test the theory they analyzed whether their data fit the predictions of a well-known theoretical model of short-termism developed by Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein, who was recently named to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Along the way, he is giving every job a score (with a high mark of 100) for factors like skill, enjoyment and prospects, then tallying them up at the end to decide his best fit--a taste test to his career, if you will.
Al Fahim, 32, agreed to buy Pompey from Alexandre Gaydamak in May and became chairman in July, after passing the Premier League's fit-and-proper-person test.
Shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis said the government should introduce a wider public interest test and allow regulators to apply a fit and proper persons test.
Glover's takeover was initially agreed last week but was subject to the RFL's final written confirmation that he had passed a fit and proper person test.
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The visitors went into the match knowing that victory would see them unseat India as the world's number one Test nation after their resounding win in the first Test, and received a pre-match boost when Smith was passed fit to play despite a finger injury.
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