Summary

  • England win by 239 runs - take 2-1 series lead

  • Moeen takes hat-trick to complete victory

  • Elgar makes 228-ball 136 - removed by Moeen

  • Roland-Jones removed Bavuma & Philander in successive balls

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

  • Second innings: Eng 313-8 dec (Bairstow 63)

Live Reporting

Jamie Lillywhite and Mark Mitchener

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    If Elgar carries his bat, I reckon that would make him the first opener to do so twice since Bill Lawry in 1971.

    Ash

  2. SA 251-7

    Minimum 62 overs remaining

    Nice delivery from Moeen, beats Maharaj on the back foot but no contact and the South Africans survive.

  3. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Elgar is moving towards his highest Test score, which is the 140 he made against New Zealand in Dunedin in March.

  4. SA 245-7

    Elgar 134, Maharaj 19

    There's a couple - one hesitates to say mature - who are resplendent in the powder blue England kit from the 1992 World Cup. Which one is your favourite? I used to like the one when Nasser was captain with the stripes - and the matching caps. A nice mix in the crowd, plenty of kids, they get in for a pound today. Maharaj edges Roland-Jones just short of the slip cordon and collects a fourth boundary.

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    Nasser models the England ODI kit, circa 2003

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    Anderson and Broad are still our best opening pair. Let's face it, others should be challenging but are not in the same league so I can see these two starting for some time to come. As for the rest... when fit it has to be Mark Wood to make up the three main seamers. He is quick and we can do with him down under. We need all three fit and firing on all fronts at the Gabba otherwise I fear another disaster. I have still not recovered from seeing Jimmy and Swanny being whacked out of the Waca last time.

    Ian

  6. SA 233-7

    Elgar 127, Maharaj 14

    Some sharp bounce for Moeen out of the rough patches to Maharaj, it flies up and catches Bairstow on the shoulder, but no damage for the batsmen.

  8. SA 232-7

    Target 492

    No need to shield Maharaj it would seem, two glorious off side boundaries off Roland-Jones. I'll put the target figure back up as a tribute to him. He doesn't look as comfortable against the short one though, but he flays a third four in the over. Westley signing bats on the boundary, nice to see that's still a thing, I thought it was all selfies now.

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

    South Africa will want a result pitch at Old Trafford for the final Test, and they'll be hoping for helpful overhead conditions. It would be nice to see a close game up there. The inconsistencies in batting - for both sides - has been the reason for that. You felt it was a 260-ish sort of pitch in the first innings for both teams.

  10. SA 220-7

    Elgar 126, Maharaj 2

    Elgar has kept Maharaj off strike since the interval and the left-hander helps himself to two more through the covers off Moeen.

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    Tom: By my count, England have seven left-handed batsmen who bowl right-handed in the side. Is this a Test record?

  12. SA 217-7

    Elgar 124, Maharaj 1

    They are going to haul Elgar off the field with some heavy machinery at this rate because he is seeing it well. Two more boundaries for the left-hander off Roland-Jones, a leg glance and then an on-drive when he holds the pose as if in criticism of those who don't like his style of play.

  13. 'You muppet!' Listen to the Boycott wind-up

    As so many of you demanded it - here's a chance to listen to Aggers' wind-up before lunch when "an ICC press release" suggested that one of Geoffrey Boycott's hundreds was to be stripped of first-class status - so his 100th hundred wasn't scored at Headingley after all, but in Faisalabad...

    (It can also be downloaded as a podcast here)

  14. Eng 208-7

    Minimum 68 overs left

    Bright sunshine as Moeen glides in to Elgar. There are two slips waiting for an edge but nothing offered by the obdurate left-hander. Maiden.

  15. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    What the bowlers will do now is just try to get Elgar off strike and target Maharaj, Rabada and Morkel.

  16. SA 208-7

    Target 492

    Nothing on offer for him in this one. Bit mean of me to put the target figure up I suppose.

  17. Dan Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    Dean Elgar looked quite despondent as he went off for lunch. Perhaps he thought Chris Morris was the last recognised batsman.

  18. It will be the dazzling debutant Toby Roland-Jones to resume from the Pavilion End after lunch, needing two of the final three wickets to seal 10 in the match.

  19. But with the final ball of the morning, the big paceman edged Moeen to slip where Ben Stokes took a superb diving catch, leaving England only three wickets short of victory with two sessions - and a minimum of 70 overs - remaining.

  20. Chris Morris went for 161 runs with the ball and made only two with the bat in the first innings, but he adopted a bold approach this morning.