Sibley nears maiden Test century
Sibley 85* - adds 116 with Root (61)
Root 61, Denly 31, Crawley 25
Nightwatchman Bess falls to final ball
Two wickets for Nortje
SA 223 - deficit of 46: Anderson 5-40
Stokes five catches - England record
SA lead 1-0 in four-Test series
Second Test, day three, Cape Town
Joe Root isn't going to just pad away against Keshav Maharaj.
The England captain unfurls a reverse sweep and batters it away for four.
He tries again and misses.
Live by the sweep, die by the sweep?
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Daniel Johnson: Got to apologise. I’ve left the house twice today, both times we’ve lost a wicket. Locking myself in the living room now.
Lead by 150
Anrich Nortje trying to dig it in at the ribs, with a short leg in close.
Dom Sibley and Joe Root playing it well, knocking it down away for singles.
Eek. Less convincing from Root last up as he just about rocks a pull shot through mid-wicket for one more.
And that's the 150 lead for England.
Hmm.
Replays of that catch seem to show Dwaine Pretorius scrapes the ball along the grass as he takes it very low.
Did the ground help the ball stay in his hands?
Anyway. On we go.
Lead by 147
Dom Sibley carefully sees off a maiden from Keshav Maharaj.
Adam Mountford
BBC Test Match Special in Cape Town
South Africa flags being waved again in the crowd for the first time in a while as Denly is dismissed.
Image source, BBC SportEngland captain Joe Root sees off his first delivery.
A mate messaged me earlier saying he thought Joe Denly would get out for 33.
You were two runs off, Dom.
Mark Ramprakash
Ex-England batsman on The Cricket Social
It's a shot Denly likes to play. Ed Smith picked Denly thinking he would be suited to international cricket because he plays string back-foot strokes.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent in Cape Town
That's a brilliant catch. He came in off the boundary edge, rolled over and took the ball very low indeed.
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Denly c Pretorius b Nortje 31 (Eng 101-2)
Does this go down as a brain-fart?
Anrich Nortje sends down a bumper aimed at Joe Denly's chin and the number three takes on the hook shot but miscues it towards wide fine leg.
Dwaine Pretorius runs in and takes a fine low catch.
Not sure that was the ball to be playing that shot to.
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Jonny Green: Good, proper Test match batting from England. Promising signs if they can keep this up.
Steven Finn
England bowler on The Cricket Social
I can't criticise what South Africa are doing here. If you search for wickets, the scoreboard can get away from you and the game is lost.
Keshav Maharaj drops very short - a 'hit me' ball and Joe Denly obliges but can't get it through the gap to the fence. That's one.
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Over summer I had a dream about Joe Root where he repeatedly kept shouting 'ROOOOOT' during a cricket match. Funny at first but very annoying by the end. Monty Panesar was also there but he wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary. I met Joe in real life in London not long after but he was able to speak normally.
Tom Lovelace
Lead by 144
Anrich Nortje is now going round the wicket and banging it in short on the angle to the right-handers, not dissimilar to the tactics England have perhaps gone to in desperation in recent times.
He's then back over the wicket and tighter on off-stump as Joe Denly defends.
Wide last up and Denly cuts firmly away to the boundary rider for a single.
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Jimmy Anderson’s England number is 613. Zak Crawley is 695.
I imagine that Jimmy has played with the vast majority of the 82 between them, and would’ve played with a large number of players who have a number pre 613. Is he close to having played with 100 other England cricketers?
James Firebrace
Shot! Keshav Maharaj sends it down short and wide and Dom Sibley cuts with aplomb for four.
Denly happy to wait for Nortje to drop short so he can pull the ball for one.
Any more cricket-related dreams?
They have to be better than our colleague's very humdrum dream about Ben Stokes having Dean Elgar caught down the leg side in this Test.