Lovely shot from Jonny Bairstow who twice bisects the off side field to hit the spinner to the boundary. More easy runs. This partnership is worth 48 now, with Bairstow having faced just nine balls from the main quicks.

Adrian Knowles, Ipswich: Re that Galle Stadium photo (77 overs), they need a better wicketkeeping coach...

Somebody give me a nudge when the new ball is taken and South Africa have taken off the part-time dobbers.

Image source, Dan White

Dan White, Liverpool: Arundel Castle, anyone?

One, two, three chances for South Africa to get rid of Ben Stokes. They ask for an lbw, but there's an inside edge and then both the wicketkeeper and first slip are too busy appealing to pouch the ball. Piedt looks a threat on this pitch, which is good too for Moeen Ali.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"England will be pretty disappointed with where they are. They had such an opportunity to bat South Africa out of the series. It's possible they could still make 500, but if they do they've done it the hard way and not the way they wanted."

AB De Villiers, standing at first slip, is completely in the shade as the sun slips behind the ground's floodlights. South Africa continue to give England an easy ride... Dean Elgar given an over and being milked for four singles. Like a pre-new ball giveaway.

Image source, Oliver Doward

Oliver Doward: I took this last month just outside Galle Stadium, school kids playing and an actual cow at cow corner.

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Jonny Bairstow is done like a kipper: Dane Piedt getting one to grip, turn and bounce just over the batsman's unguarded timbers. The ball runs for four byes and Bairstow offers up a curious facial expression. Like a hybrid of 'I was lucky there/Got to laugh, haven't you?/Was that as close as it felt?/Why didn't you tell me it was spinning?'.

Alisdair Hinton: Surely the 1st pitch at James Taylor's school Shrewsbury is in with a shout. Described by the cricket writer sir Neville Cardus as "the most beautiful playing fields in the world, spreading and imperceptibly mingling with the pasture land of Shropshire".

Image source, Alisdair Hinton

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While Stiaan van Zyl trundles in bowling Ian Austin-style military medium, some England supporters shelter from the sun beneath beer-branded brollies and others chant songs with their tops off and their backs to the cricket. Brits abroad, eh? 

James Wilson: Someone needs to get at least a hundred for England to get a decent score. 

When I started up this debate this morning, I knew we'd see a lot of beautiful grounds... but I didn't realise they'd be so plentiful with suggestions ranging from Huddersfield to Helsinki. Fantastic stuff.

In the middle, Morne Morkel goes big for a caught-behind when Ben Stokes chases one down leg. Nobody else appeals though and Morkel sticks with it just long enough to avoid embarrassment. Like when you celebrate a footballers' shot hitting the side-netting. You feel a bit awkward but go with it anyway.

Image source, Simon Uphill

Simon Uphill: It may be small with a gravel outfield but the view at the cricket ground on Suomenlinna world heritage fortress island in Helsinki, Finland is lovely.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"I bet Stokes is looking at van Zyl and thinking if this was Saturday afternoon in the leagues I'd plant him where the cows are grazing."

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Frustration for Ben Stokes as he fails to get hold of a Stiaan van Zyl half-tracker and then middles the next one straight to point.

He eventually gets one to the ropes with a forceful push through mid-on. The type of shot which has brought Eoin Morgan so many one-day runs. Lots of bottom hand.

Image source, Bhokraj Gurung

Bhokraj Gurung: Simplicity - Bandipur, Nepal.

A mixed bag from Jonny Bairstow who is almost tempted into nicking Morne Morkel to the keeper, before he drives the next ball through the covers for four. Nice shot... but will it last?

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"This final hour and 10 minutes will decide who has won the day."

Every over that is sent down by Stiaan van Zyl highlights how the balance of South Africa's side is still affected by the retirement of Jacques Kallis back in 2013. England are watchful, as though getting out to the dibbly-dobbly all-rounder incurs a dressing room fine.