Summary

  • SA chasing improbable 492 to win

  • Stokes removes De Kock & Du Plessis with successive deliveries

  • Root catches Amla at slip; Kuhn is bowled by Broad

  • England 313-8 declared in second innings

  • Bairstow 63, Westley 59, Root 50

  • First innings: Eng 353 (Stokes 112), SA 175 (Bavuma 52)

  1. ouch!

    SA 68-4published at 17:59 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Target 492

    Elgar's ready to resume - and is struck another blow on the left hand by Roland-Jones. Never let it be said that it's an easy life opening the batting in international cricket. Elgar forces a two past short leg, and takes a single to keep the strike - TRJ has 1-14 from six overs.

  2. Postpublished at 17:54 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Any time you get out it's horrible but right up there is that moment when you leave it and you go "oh no." The ball just nips back and you know, your mind has a blank moment, and it has happened twice to Faf du Plessis.

  3. ouch!

    Postpublished at 17:53 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    South Africa physio Brandon Jackson - a dead ringer for 1990s Oldham striker Andy Ritchie - comes on to treat Dean Elgar between overs. Looks like a finger injury - and looks like there's a bit of blood.

    Dean ElgarImage source, Reuters
  4. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:53 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

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    George King‏: Roland-Jones has taken seven international wickets so far in his one ODI and one Test. Three of his wickets have been Hashim Amla.

  5. SA 65-4published at 17:52 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Elgar 34, Bavuma 2

    Bavuma doesn't look comfortable, holding off a fiery spell from Ben Stokes - England's "firestarter" as he describes himself in the title of his book. He and Elgar scramble a single apiece.

    To explain, theoretically there are 19 overs left today. But with England bowling exclusively pace, it's unlikely that they'll get them in before 19:00 BST. Any overs lost tonight are lost forever - there will be 98 available tomorrow.

  6. Postpublished at 17:52 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I think it's been a really good cricket wicket, there have been times when it has done something but others when it has looked quite flat. If a bowler bowled a bad ball it usually went for four.

  7. View from the press boxpublished at 17:52 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

  8. ouch!

    SA 63-4published at 17:48 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Minimum 20 overs left tonight if they can be bowled by 19:00 BST

    Roland-Jones has an arc of fielders in place for Elgar - three slips, a gully, and catchers at short cover and short mid-off. Elgar is quite square-on with the way he defends, and the erstwhile Somerset opener is dealt a whack on the waist - it looked too high to have thudded into his thigh pad. Maiden over, and probably a bruise for the batsman.

  9. Postpublished at 17:48 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    It's been a quality display from England this week, everything they have done has been of a high standard. There will be many pointing the finger at Joe Root for declaring a bit late but look at the scoreboard.

  10. Postpublished at 17:43 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    Extra half hour, anyone?

  11. SA 63-4published at 17:43 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Elgar 33, Bavuma 1

    Elgar taps a single, then Stokes bowls his third no-ball of the innings. Bavuma survives the over, having to take one hand off the bat as he defends.

  12. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:42 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

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    Shaun Berkeley: Can England slow down please? I'm on my day off tomorrow & want to watch some cricket.

    Theo Bowyer‏: Captain Calamity from FDP... no shot offered for the second time shows a scrambled head. South Africa to be bowled out tonight.

  13. Postpublished at 17:40 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Here's Du Plessis departing for a golden duck offering no shot (again)

  14. How's stat?!published at 17:39 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Sohag Gazi of Bangladesh remains the only player so far to score a Test hundred and take a hat-trick in the same game, which came against New Zealand in 2013.

  15. SA 61-4published at 17:38 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    The crowd are in boisterous mode as Stokes walks back to his mark, with four slips, gully, short leg and silly mid-on in... and the hat-trick ball is on leg stump and nudged away for a single by Bavuma.

  16. Postpublished at 17:37 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Right, stand by for the hat-trick ball from Stokes. Here's the first of those two in two for the Durham man...

  17. Postpublished at 17:37 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    What a common trend this is becoming in Test match cricket with teams batting under this kind of pressure. They just have these kind of collapses.

  18. SA 60-4published at 17:37 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    Minimum 22 overs left in the day

    South Africa have collapsed from 47-1 to 52-4. Temba Bavuma must have had to get his pads on in quite a hurry. Luckily for the Proteas, Dean Elgar is holding up an end, even if his partners can't. Elgar leg-glances Roland-Jones for four, and helps himself to four more backward of point.

  19. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:35 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

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    Rachel T‏: Too soon to say that Amla is TRJ's bunny?!

  20. Postpublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 30 July 2017

    As we attempt to keep up with that clatter of three wickets, here was how Hashim Amla fell...