England tour of South Africa

[Arthur Crabtree]

Five-fer for Archer. Well done to him.

[Arthur Crabtree]

376 to win. 46 overs left in the day.

England might reconsider these five man pace attacks. It's hard to think they might never have wanted to turn to spin in the last four days. And if they are reluctant to play Parkinson, then don't put him in the squad.

[Durhamfootman]

Five-fer for Archer. Well done to him.

Yes, well done him

pity about the gallon that went with it.... in only 17 overs too

46 overs in the day..... England would be lucky to survive them were it not that play will probably end early, 8 overs short

[meninblue]

England 8/0. Disaapointing that "Predcitivz" is not being used in Test Matches unlike the T20 and ODI and fans are not sure who will win this test match.

[meninblue]

Tea. England openers survive. 24/0.

Still need 352 runs to win.

Aiden Markram has been ruled out for next six weeks due to finger injury while doing nets practice today morning. Pieter Malan to debut in second test

[meninblue]

Some very good leaves by Dominic. Other batsman would have poked at couple of deliveries he has left which would have tempted other batsmen. Nice to see that for a change.

[meninblue]

Rory dropped at first slip by Rassie on 20 and gives a boundary. Think Rassie has already dropped two catches in this test (1 in first innings) in slip. Rory has looked unconvincing in this innings so far. The bat seems to come down acoss the line and hence getting edges on both the instances i have seen this innings.

[meninblue]

Dominic caught and bowled by Keshav Maharaj on 29. Very easy catch that. Decent innings though considering he saw off the threat of new ball. Without the 15 overs he batted, the fragile batting lineup may have struggled against the new ball.

England 92/1.

[Durhamfootman]

I see Dobell is after the ECB again

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id ... ional-hope

And he's right..... but they still won't listen. They'll just continue to keep his negativity out of the loop

[Durhamfootman]

did honest Joe get back on the pitch, or do we have the prospect of Root and Buttler batting 7 and 8 to look forward to?

[andy]

Well played future captain burns!! Good effort to get ro vlose only 1 down...hmm you never know..

[meninblue]

Stumps. England need 225 to win with 9 wickets intact. Awesome performance by the batsmen in this innings given the context.

[Durhamfootman]

Yes indeed, a well worked reply. Gives HJ and JB2 more time to recover. I still don't know when they will allowed to come in to bat, though

[Arthur Crabtree]

Root was out in the field, so he should be ok to come in next.

Great effort from the England top three. Not something that is often said.

[sussexpob]

Well played future captain burns!!.

He will never be captain. He will soon work out with his luck that his destiny is to become the world's richest man through gambling. Someone needs to tell him to invest in lotto tickets.

I'd be amazed if he's ever made more than 25 without being dropped. In can't emember the last innings he either got out straight away in, or was dropped and made a start

I can be corrected, but has he had one innings where he wasn't dropped and made a contribution