Morne Morkel is stretching his massive limbs, with the aid of one of those elastic stretchy things, on the boundary edge. We're about five minutes away from the start of play.

And this is a comedic moment you'll probably see all over club cricket tomorrow - four overthrows earn Alastair Cook a five in the scorebook.

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Alec Stewart
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

The ball swung yesterday and there was a little bit of nip but Alastair Cook respected the bowling and showed anybody watching how you construct an innings. He was in control out there. I hope he is rewarded today with a massive hundred.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at The Oval

It absolutely monsooned in London last night, but The Oval is showing no ill-effects. In the middle, under the sunshine, England new boy Toby Roland-Jones hammers the baseball mitt of bowling coach Ottis Gibson, while skipper Joe Root practises his off-breaks with a target of a towel.

A couple more highlights from yesterday. Joe Root didn't last long, making 29 before being brilliantly caught by wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock:

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However, it was a stark welcome to Test cricket for Middlesex batsman Dawid Malan. He hung around for a little while, but only had a single to his name when he was cleaned up by a brute of an inswinging yorker by the fiery Kagiso Rabada.

Jonathan Agnew's column yesterday focused on Alastair Cook, the sheet anchor of England's innings so far.

"Cook can look back on what he has achieved with immense pride. It wasn't pretty, but it was hugely satisfying," Aggers writes - and you can read the full column here.

And in true reality TV style, here are some of Cook's "best bits":

Dan Norcross
BBC Test Match Special

The weather looks really unsettled and we're likely to be going into a fifth day because of it. We can make up time tonight by playing until 7pm, but that all depends on if the weather allows it.

Jake Cope
Forecaster, BBC Weather Centre

Rain interrupted proceedings yesterday, and today might not be too different. I hope those folks who pull the covers on and off had a good breakfast. There are a few showers around the capital at the moment and these will be on and off for much of the day. We’ll get one or two sunny spells as well but don’t get too excited, they’ll be fleeting. Showers may well turn into more persistent rain this evening but not before strong south-westerly winds start to blow straight across the wicket. With top temperatures of 18ºC it looks like a day for the cable-knit jumper in the field.

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Graeme Smith
Ex-South Africa captain on BBC Test Match Special

I thought Tom Westley did well yesterday. He left the ball well and looks well organised. The challenge comes now, with being under the microscope so much. I picked up the papers this morning and there were four different pictures analysing his technique.

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With Liam Dawson dropped, it's the turn of Keaton Jennings to be the England player firmly under the microscope of the "drop him now!" breed of supporter. And even the staunchest fan of the Durham opener would concede that he did himself no favours with another duck yesterday.

TMS's Geoffrey Boycott applied a different metaphor to Jennings' situation on 5 live Breakfast this morning. "You can't play Test cricket like that. Girls don't go out with you if you're tentative and you don't ask them," he said.

There's a triathlon going on here in Salford Quays this morning, which has meant a minor road closure - and walking in to Beeb Towers this morning, it was fascinating to see a number of vehicles blithely ignore multiple "ROAD AHEAD CLOSED - NO THROUGH ROUTE" signs, then be forced into difficult three-point turns when they hit said roadblock.

In the same way, the last Test at Trent Bridge featured several England batsmen blithely determined to blaze away rather than apply common sense, with the need to "play an exciting brand of cricket" outweighing any thought of reading the match situation.

Thankfully, there were signs yesterday that a lesson may have been learned.

Morning, everyone - and welcome to day two of the third Test between England and South Africa at The Oval.

Yesterday was, perhaps, one for the Test cricket purist rather than the casual, general sports fan. England will begin on 171-4 after a rain-interrupted first day, and we'll bring you today's forecast in a little while.