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
Mark Ramprakash
Ex-England batsman on The Cricket Social
England are doing a good job. Denly is trying to be aggressive when he can. Sibley is prepared to be patient. Time is irrelevant. The longer they keep South Africa there, they are building themselves into a position of strength.
Kagiso Philander replaces the parsimonious Philander.
And Joe Denly cracks uppishly over the covers for a couple before slashing to deep point for a single.
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent in Cape Town
We hear a lot about Sibley's patience. He has a lot of it. Let's see how long he can take Maharaj tossing it into the rough outside leg stump. When will he play a shot?
Maharaj tries something different, going over the wicket to Sibley, who pads away.
Pieter Malan - who must be one of the biggest units to ever field at short leg - takes the catch.
Brief excitement but that was all pad.
Another maiden.
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Philander 9-6-7-0
In more usual scenes, Vernon Philander bowls another maiden.
I mean...he's must've had to thrash the tree about the living room to create that needle spillage. Remarkable scenes.
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Keshav Maharaj tosses it up on leg stump and Dom Sibley crisply clips it off his pads through backward square leg for four.
Sibley has remarkable hand-eye co-ordination off his pads. Very Trottian.
He'll go far if that open stance doesn't cause him too many issues playing outside off-stump.
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25 overs gone and Joe Root not at the crease? He'll be getting pad rash.
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Quinton de Kock is up to the stumps to keep Joe Denly honest against Vernon Philander.
Eesh. And Denly nearly tickles the first delivery straight to the wicketkeeper.
Another maiden for Big Vern - his 5th in eight overs.
Daniel Norcross
The Cricket Social
That was a thick, thick edge.
Eng 65-1
Dom Sibley flashes at it and edges wide of the diving Faf du Plessis at slip. Not convincing.
Joe Denly goes after Keshav Maharaj again, opening the blade more this time to hit over extra cover and away for three runs.
The slow left-armer gets a bit of bite to Dom Sibley, who pushes it away.
Ooh. Sibley plays very late at one that leaves him and ends up running it down off a thick outside edge on the bounce to slip.
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Philander 7-4-7-0
Big Vern isn't about to be carted about though.
A testing maiden to Dom Sibley.
Lead by 104
Hello! Shackles broken?
Joe Denly skips down the pitch and clatters Keshav Maharaj back over mid-off for four.
England's lead up over 100 now.
Sibley 19, Denly 9
Nagging as ever from Philander as he sends down a maiden to Denly.
England very watchful since lunch.
Feels like some people may be giving away the size of their houses with their Christmas tree stories.
Mark Ramprakash
Ex-England batsman on The Cricket Social
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