Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

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"This is a terrible dismissal on this kind of surface. He just leans back and skews it to backward point. You don't get many pitches like this with the ball coming on nicely, blue skies and a fast outfield. He has just gifted an opportunity and it is another one to put in the list of failures."

Joe Giacomelli: England's batsmen need to apply themselves now. Got to stick around and get in. Big test for Hales.

Cook gets in on the act now - and in some style, a punched drive off Abbott sending the ball through mid-off for a sumptuous four.

Phil Benton: Without being pessimistic, what's the follow-on total to avoid?

Alastair Cook is famed for not sweating, but Abbott has got me thinking about the other end of the scale. Who is the sweatiest cricketer you've seen? It could be an international or a club player - let us know. Back to the cricket... Hales cuts then forces for successive fours off the errant Rabada. He's raced to 15 off 12 balls.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"The new ball might do a bit - the odd one might keep a bit low - but it is nothing drastic. It's the kind of pitch where you just have to tell yourself to keep your shape."

How on earth can you have a sweat on after one over? I know it's tad warmer in Centurion than Salford, and Abbott does like to charge in, but he's positively dripping already. Cook survives the mini examination outside off stump.

David Mitchell: Disappointing that at 2-0 up England could not ram home their superiority in that South Africa innings.   

Kagiso Rabada shares the new ball with Abbott. The radar is a little wonky, allowing Cook to get off strike before the under-pressure Alex Hales opens his account with three off his pads. And another leg-sider sees Hales collect the first boundary of the innings. That reminded me of much of England's bowling yesterday morning...

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"It's a good pitch. If you can play in Test cricket, this is a pretty good surface - only occasionally do you get one better than this."

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Cook is off the mark with a leg-side single. England up and running.

Kyle Abbott has the new ball. Let's go.

Mark Boucher
Former South Africa wicketkeeper on BBC Test Match Special

"There is a history at Centurion for the ball to go up and down and South Africa are going to have to use the new ball well."

So what can England do? Can they match that sizeable South Africa total on a pitch that remains true for batting? First things first, they must survive the 35 minutes' play before tea. Alastair Cook and Alex Hales, over to you.

South Africa 475 (132 overs)

De Kock 129* (128)

Fall of wickets: 35-1 (Elgar 20), 237-2 (Amla 109), 238-3 (De Villiers 0), 271-4 (Cook, 115), 273-5 (Duminy 16), 335-6 (Bavuma 35), 336-7 (Rabada 0), 386-8 (Abbott 16), 468-9 (Piedt 19), 475 all out (Morkel 0)  

Bowling: Anderson 30-6-91-1, Broad 28-4-91-2, Moeen 25-5-104-2, Woakes 22-3-91-1, Stokes 27-3-86-4

South Africa won the toss

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A word for Stokes, who claimed the final three wickets to finish with commendable figures of 4-86. Curiously, although there were three centuries in the South Africa innings, only one other player managed more than 20.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

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"This is a killer innings from De Kock on top of Cook and Amla yesterday."

If England were made to work hard yesterday, the resistance they encountered today was arguably more frustrating. De Kock ends with an unbeaten 129 to his name - off only 128 balls. It could well be a match-winning innings.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

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"The pity is that lbw hasn't broken Morne's toe to stop him bowling! England need a bit of help replying to 475! There will be a little in it for the bowlers to challenge the early batsmen and that score is challenging. 

"Numbers two, three and five haven't impressed yet for England are their Test careers are very much in the infancy."