Oooh, heart-in-mouth moment for Stephen Cook. He pokes to cover and sets off for a very sharp single. Broad whizzes a throw past the timbers and Cook's rueful smile tells you he was well short if that had hit.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

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"Broad is looking like he is having a long day already. His knees are not really kicking up at the moment."

So, Stuart Broad gets us going after tea. Immediately he draws the edge of Amla but the ball drops agonisingly short of Cook at first slip. "Oh you're joking," says Broad in disgust. Deadly serious I'm afraid Stu.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"I am not sure who spotted it in the first place because it is not like a geyser - it was just bubbling up to the surface."

Paul: Play suspended due a burst pipe at the cricket. Water catastrophe...

I'm sorry, that is the most ridiculous solution I've ever seen. They've basically dumped a sandpit on the problem area at square leg and hoped no-one will notice. Anyway, we're going to resume...

Dare I say I haven't seen a section of cricket pitch this well irrigated since England's post-Ashes celebrations at the Oval in 2013...

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"People are looking on bemused there is no announcement anywhere. This is where cricket lets down the viewer."

Well well, what an extraordinary turn of events. I've not seen water that colour since my hotel bathroom flooded on a particularly ill-fated holiday. I do hope they threw those towels away...

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"An irrigation pipe has burst. There's various men out there in big boots out there. What a shame Andy Caddick isn't playing, he could turn his hand to anything. We need a plumber."

Mark Boucher
Former South Africa wicketkeeper on BBC Test Match Special

"It's a strange one. We badly need water in this country, yet we've got water on the field."

Disappointingly, we don't have a specialist graphic for this. But yes, incredibly, it appears that some sort of pipe has burst beneath the playing surface and brownish water is now oozing onto the outfield. 

And the players are now going back off! Scenes. What a way for Stephen Cook's march to a debut Test century to be halted...

Thanks Stephan. I'm not getting married, I hasten to add. Just a little anecdote for you. But before that...

James Gheerbrant's pre-evening session sprint to the chair beside me is becoming something of a live text tradition. He's here to talk you through the rest of the day, possibly with some chat of a Bridezilla. Enjoy.

Jonathan Shields: Woakes and Co cafeteria now open.....please help yourselves...

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

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"England have given them a 220-run lead. Can they fight back and win? If they can't win, can they fight back to draw like South Africa did at Cape Town? There's a lot to play for some of these players."