Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"Hashim Amla, at his home ground here in Durban, averages 286 runs at 19."

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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Jonny Bairstow will be over the moon with that dismissal after that earlier clanger. Chris Woakes will be fuming though."

AB de Villiers, your country needs you! And to be fair, he usually answers the call. But if England can't somehow nip him out, they'll fancy their chances against the soft underbelly of this South African batting line up. AB is off the mark with a drive through the covers.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Beautifully bowled. Again, it was in the corridor and it squared him up. Amla didn't play it very well... it just left him a bit and he wasn't sure whether to go forward. South Africa are in trouble. Broad's a good bowler. He and James Anderson are the best around. Other than Steyn and Morkel, nobody gets close as a pair."

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"If Woakes keeps bowling it there, he will get his rewards. He's got better than when he first came on the scene. However, pitches don't do as much these days so it's harder for the fast-medium seamers."

Elgar gets South Africa's first boundary - he gets on top of the bounce and guides Chris Woakes through the vacant point region. Otherwise it's an accurate over from Woakes and Elgar defends solidly.

What will that do for Jonny Bairstow's confidence? Remember he muffed a crucial chance in the UAE too, making a horlicks of an attempted stumping of Misbah in the third Test. Amla blocks out an over from Broad.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

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"You've got to catch those if you've got gloves on. It's a flashing drive. You can't drop those. It might have been Cook's catch, but if he goes he's got to get it."

Dropped catchpublished at 4 overs

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Down! Hashim Amla gets a life, and how costly might that be? It's excellent bowling from Chris Woakes, getting one to shape away from Amla and induce the expansive drive - it flies off the outside edge but Jonny Bairstow, flying across goalkeeper-style, can't wrap his mitt round it. Alastair Cook was waiting for it at first slip, hands agape in expectation like the jaws of a Hungry Hippo. What a let-off.

I reckon Bruce Oxenford is sitting in the telly truck saying a few silent thankyous to the Almighty that England didn't review that. It would have been an absolute pig of a decision for the third umpire - there's the tiniest flicker on Snicko, but would that really have been enough evidence to overturn the not-out decision?

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"It hasn't done very much for England. It was just a miscalculation which got the wicket. It's a matter of patience for England. Put them under pressure and see how many mistakes they make."

This is straight out of the Stuart Broad textbook: good delivery, beat the bat, turn around, arms raised in celebration, almost daring the umpire to give it not out. That's what happens though, and England take too long to ask for the review, so Amla is reprieved. Tell you what, there was a noise there as well. More drama as a hospitality umbrella breaks free of its moorings and goes cartwheeling across the outfield before a brave steward flings himself in its path. All happening.

Gus Sammons: Don't leave those, great start! Let's hope it continues.

Jay: That was a great imitation of an England opener by Van Zyl.

Jonny Mango: Remember everyone was panicked when Anderson got injured at Edgbaston. Broad doesn't need anyone else to ruin a lineup. 

So, an unfamiliar opening partner for Stuart Broad: Chris Woakes to take the new cherry at the other end. Dean Elgar's first shot is none too convincing, wafting at one outside off stump, but he's off the mark thereafter with a sharp single and Amla follows suit. Woakes, a little quicker than he was before, a good swinger of the ball, solid action. A good first over from him.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"It doesn't matter how many runs Hashim Amla has made in the past and how much experience he's got, but he didn't get any runs in India and he's got none since in first-class cricket. People remember the great knocks, but it doesn't help you in the middle."

So the new man is Hashim Amla, and Durban hasn't necessarily been a happy hunting-ground for him over the years - he averages just a shade over 20 at Kingsmead. And immediately he faces a huge shout! Beauty from Broad, just leaving Amla, batsman feeling for it, Broad's face turning purple as he tries to convince the umpire that the batsman has snicked it. Nothing doing, but what a start from Broad.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

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"One or two South Africans I've spoken to feel Van Zyl is very lucky to have kept his place. He's not got any runs in the middle for a while and that's not good for confidence."