Summary

  • South Africa close on 220-9 - 142 runs behind England

  • Anderson takes four wickets from end bearing his name

  • Two wickets apiece for Broad and Moeen

  • England bowled out for 362 - Bairstow 99, Stokes 58

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse

  1. SA 147-6

    Anderson 14-3-33-4

    Keshav Maharaj is the new man, and cleverly gets off strike to his first ball. Quinton de Kock does some gardening and taps the ball down to point to see out the over.

  2. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    Some may say Anderson is in the autumn of his career but, with an Ashes series to go, he's closing in on 500 wickets. A great spell.

  3. These are Anderson's best figures in a Test at Old Trafford. It's been a magnificent spell. Clever, finding the movement when the pitch had gone flat, a bit of reverse swing being exploited to perfection. He's taken three wickets for six runs in 24 deliveries.

  4. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It's a brilliant spell of bowling from James Anderson from his own end. Wouldn't it be fitting for him to get five wickets? He's on top of his game right now.

    England celebratePA
  5. wicket

    WICKET

    De Bruyn c Root b Anderson 11 (SA 146-6)

    Is Anderson going to get a five-for from his own end? He's going about it in the right way. Another lovely delivery, a hint of away swing this time as Theunis de Bruyn goes on the drive, and a healthy outside edge goes quickly to second slip. It's Joe Root that steadies himself to get both hands to it, and Anderson gives de Bruyn a glare as he departs.

  6. Here's why Quinton de Kock is looking so uncomfortable - he offered up this chance a few overs ago.

  7. SA 142-5

    Trail by 220

    Quinton De Kock drives a single off Moeen and practices his shot down at the other end. You sense he's not really enjoying this situation much. De Bruyn looks a little more settled and reverse sweeps again for another couple.

  8. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    Big game here. Wrestlers, the Beatles, a cowboy and some soldiers. Rowdy.

    Old Trafford

  9. SA 138-5

    De Kock 3, De Bruyn 4

    Anderson pushes the ball across De Kock, who makes a motion towards his partner that implies the ball is reversing. An edge from De Kock, the batsman coming forward to a full delivery, but it's going along the ground and Bairstow dose well to get a mitt to it and cut off a boundary. Anderson responds with a beautiful delivery that De Bruyn can't resist groping for, and there's just a hint of daylight between ball and bat as the ball zips over the stumps.

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    James Beck: Is Jimmy Anderson married? If not d'you think he would consider marrying me? I think I'm in love with him.

  11. SA 137-5

    Trail by 225

    Moeen's going to carry on holding up an end. It's so nice for Root, having a spinner you can trust to be economical and keep an end tight while Anderson carries on probing from the other end. A maiden.

  12. Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    A draw isn't enough for South Africa. They are so much on the back foot here that 90 minutes of De Kock going for it now is what they need.

  13. SA 137-5

    Anderson 12-3-27-3

    Anderson will continue - I'd like to see you try and get the ball out of his hands - feet kicking up as he charges in and de Kock tries to run the ball gently off the face for a single. England are sharp though, their tails firmly off, and second slip cuts the ball off. Another maiden for Anderson, who has some magnificently tidy figures to his name.

  14. Two wickets in an over for James Anderson - first Bavuma...

    And then skipper Du Plessis.

  15. SA 137-5

    Quinton de Kock, rather wisely, decides to get down the other end. That brings Theunis de Bruyn on strike and he reverse sweeps, and sweeps nicely, down to the third man boundary. That was an eventful seven balls!

  16. dropped catch

    De Kock dropped on 1

    SA 132-5

    Two drops in two balls! That flew again, this time from Moeen, and de Kock tried to cut it. The ball went quickly, whizzing off the top edge again, and Stokes couldn't quite cling on. It was going fast to him and he got his hands up in the general vicinity, but it was past him before he'd realised.

  17. dropped catch

    De Bruyn dropped on 0

    SA 132-5

    The crowd have definitely perked up as every Anderson ball is greeted with ooh's from the stands. Theunis de Bruyn stands and waits, with two slips and a gully lurking, just waiting for the edge. That's a snorter from Anderson! Man, that flew off the pitch. It surprised de Bruyn, the ball smashing into the top of the bat, and Keaton Jennings at gully throws himself to his left in an attempt to cling on. That would have been a blinder if he'd taken it.

  18. Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    De Kock is tentative, not playing with any conviction. This is brilliant by England, they need to really apply the pressure.

  19. SA 132-5

    Moeen 9-2-16-1

    All going rather well for James Anderson from the James Anderson End. Meanwhile, Moeen carries on, two fresh batsmen in the form of Quinton de Kock and Theunis de Bruyn at the wicket. There's turn for Moeen too, the first delivery moving away from de Kock, who watches the ball warily into Jonny Bairstow's gloves. Moeen tosses the ball up and de Kock pops it down towards cover. A maiden.

  20. Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    There's a change of momentum, it's all England now. Jimmy is over the moon and the crowd are as well. Jimmy knows that if you bowl at the stumps at Old Trafford you will get rewards.