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Thomas Hammond: It's high time Broad got proper recognition as a World Class performer.

Jay: Cook should gamble and let Ali bowl at ABDV for a couple of overs. Need to get him out before he gets to double figures.

Moeen rattles through an uneventful over. A couple of singles keep the score ticking over.

Well well well, what a moment that might have been. England are still in the ascendancy but the wicket of De Villiers really would have been the stuffing ball on top of the Boxing Day leftovers sandwich. Still, not to be.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"It was a good delivery from Steven Finn. It bounced and turned De Villiers around."

I reckon it might have carried. But you rarely see these decisions go the way of the fielding side, and sure enough, the not-out decision is upheld.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"I don't think it carried. It just didn't look right."

Neil Manthorp
BBC Test Match Special

"Ben Stokes is shrugging his shoulders and saying he's not sure."

Have England got De Villiers? Steven Finn squares him up, the ball flies off the glove and Ben Stokes thinks he's grabbed it before it hit the turf at gully. Given not out on the field, but let's have a look...

AB De Villiers' strike-rate of 54 is only bettered by Graeme Smith (60) of those with 3,000+ runs for South Africa.

360-degree stuff from AB de Villiers, rubber wrists twirling the bat in his hands like a toothpick and deftly switching his grip to reverse sweep the ball past Ben Stokes for four. Seven off Moeen's over.

It's a double bowling change as Steven Finn - probably the standout bowler in the warm-up games - takes the nut. There's that familiar tall, lanky action, the ball rearing up awkwardly off the pitch and warming the fingers of Dean Elgar as it hits high on the bat. Elgar nudges one off his hip for two.

South Africa first innings: 27-2 (10 overs)

Batsmen: Elgar 16, De Villiers 4

Fall of wickets: 0-1 (Van Zyl 0), 14-2 (Amla 7)

Bowling figures: Broad 5-3-8-2, Woakes 4-0-14-0, Moeen 1-0-5-0

England first innings: 303 all out (100.1 overs)

Fall of wickets: 3-1 (Cook 0), 12-2 (Hales 10), 49-3 (Root 24), 174-4 (Taylor 70), 196-5 (Stokes 21), 247-6 (Compton 85), 253-7 (Moeen 0), 253-8 (Woakes 0), 267-9 (Bairstow 41), 303-10 (Finn 12).

Not out batsman: Broad 32

Bowling figures: Steyn 25.1-5-70-4, Abbott 24-4-66-1, Morkel 26-5-76-4, Piedt 16-2-63-1, Van Zyl 2-1-2-0, Elgar 7-2-22-0.

Full scorecard

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

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"Dean Elgar has been dismissed 13 times by spinners in Test cricket, compared to 15 times by the seamers. That's quite a high ratio."

Captain Cook rearranges the deckchairs and shuffles Moeen Ali to the front for a bit of early tweakage. Dean Elgar has probably been seeing slow bowlers in his nightmares after a harrowing trial by spin in India, but Moeen isn't quite the same proposition as Ravi Ashwin and co, and he's able to assert his authority with a flick off his hips for two. Time for drinks.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

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"AB Villiers averages just 20 against Stuart Broad, who has dismissed him seven times in Test cricket."

Great graphic on TV showing how masterfully Broad set Amla up - he repeatedly targeted that fourth-stump line, not giving Amla any width to free his arms, and the delivery that got him was just a fraction closer to the off pole. Broad keeps Elgar sweating with a maiden.

Big shout from Woakes against Elgar, looked a bit high though. Elgar has one of compact, snappy defensive techniques. It's more of a punch than a dead-bat, and that leaves him susceptible to the outside edge, as is proved when he nibbles one between the slips for four.