Summary

  • Bad light ends play

  • Root 106* - his ninth Test century

  • Stokes c&b Morkel for entertaining 58

  • Cook, Hales, Compton & Taylor out cheaply

  • Stokes (3-53) finished South Africa's innings

  1. SA 297-9 (Broad 21-5-68-2)published at 97 overs

    A couple of spectators sit on the grass bank, pull a paddling pool out of their rucksack and begin to blow it up. Scenes.

    You'd never be able to do that at Old Trafford. Even if you did get a sunny day.

    Morne Morkel is frustrating England now, driving Stuart Broad back down the ground for four.

  2. Get involvedpublished at 09:06 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    tms@bbc.co.uk

    Hmmm… I think if SA get to 300 they won’t be too disappointed. I fear England might struggle on this pitch today.

    Nigel in Leeds

  3. Postpublished at 09:04 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    "It's a better day to bat than yesterday. The sun is out. I don't think the pitch will change too much. It's all about how they bat. If they get a lead of 100, they will control the game."

  4. SA 291-9published at 96 overs

    Hardus Viljoen appears to be a decent batsman. He stands on the back foot and pushes James Anderson into the covers for a single. His first-class average is 15. I miss the days of tailenders who can't hold a bat and who run away from the fast bowler. That was far more entertaining.

  5. How's stat?!published at 09:00

    Wanderers
  6. SA 290-9 (Viljoen 5, Morkel 4)published at 95 overs

    Rather than the pre-match toss, I propose each team nominates a player for an arm wrestle. I'd love to see Hardus Viljoen take on Steven Finn. Between them, they could snap a few arms clean off. Two singles from another good Stuart Broad over.

  7. Postpublished at 08:57 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    "Viljoen hit his first ball in Test cricket for four, only the third South African since readmission to do so. Temba Bavuma and Dewald Pretorious are the others."

  8. Postpublished at 08:55 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC Test Match Special

    "South Africa are still on course to make the lowest total ever made when every batsman has made double figures. It's about 350."

  9. Postpublished at 08:55 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "If he hits it, it's staying hit. He was probably brought up on biltong."  

  10. SA 288-9 (Anderson 23-5-57-1)published at 94 overs

    Shot! Hardus Viljoen opens his Test account with an on-drive for four off England's leading Test wicket-taker of all time. He'll take that. Especially off the first ball he faces.

  11. Postpublished at 08:53 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    "Six dismissals for Jonny Bairstow in this innings - the 12th time an England keeper has done so. The Test record is seven, jointly held by Wasim Bari, Bob Taylor, Ian Smith and Ridley Jacobs."

  12. Postpublished at 08:52 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "Those balls yesterday were beating the edge. Jimmy just looked to the sky and said 'thank you'"  

  13. Postpublished at 08:52 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC Test Match Special

    "England should wrap this up quickly now. Anderson beat him twice in succession. That was wider, but Rabada still edged it."

  14. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 93.3 overs

    Rabada c Bairstow b Anderson 24 (SA 281-9)

    England are wasting no time here and James Anderson gets the wicket he deserves for his toils last night. He had Kagiso Rabada on toast last night - the left-hander constantly being beaten on the outside edge - and his reward this morning is a nick behind for Jonny Bairstow to take his sixth catch of the innings.

    England's James AndersonImage source, Rex Features
  15. Postpublished at 08:49 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "Look at the size of Viljoen. If he gets hold of one, this ground will not be big enough for him."

  16. Postpublished at 08:49

    That wicket brings Hardus Viljoen to the crease. He's a monster of a man.

  17. Postpublished at 08:49 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "Good line, good length, dead simple. Broad went a bit wider of the crease and angled the ball in, then it seams and goes away. It's a simple catch for Bairstow. I said yesterday that the outside edges will come."

  18. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 93 overs

    Morris c Bairstow b Broad 28 (SA 281-8)

    Textbook from Stuart Broad. He pitches the ball up, utilises the extra bounce and finds a bit of nip away from the right-hander. Chris Morris tickles a catch behind. Eight down, two to go.

    England's Stuart BroadImage source, Rex Features
  19. This is a proper stat!published at 08:43 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2016

  20. SA 281-7 (Morris 28, Rabada 24)published at 92 overs

    Let's be honest. If you're a South African tailender, who do you want to face this morning? James Anderson or Steven Finn?

    Steady stuff, and Anderson does find Chris Morris' edge, but the ball drops short of Ben Stokes at gully.