Summary

  • SA chasing Test record 438 to win

  • Debutant Malan 63*, Maharaj 2*

  • Elgar 34 - Denly's first Test wicket

  • Hamza 18 - Anderson strikes late

  • England 391-8 dec

  • Sibley 133* - maiden Test century

  • Stokes 72 off 47 balls

  • SA lead 1-0 in four-Test series

  • Second Test, day four, Cape Town

  1. Lunch - Eng 375-7published at 10:32 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    Lead by 421

    Stoked by Ben, England Dom-inate the morning.

    South Africa have been flattened.

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    Ned Holmes: Vince Vaughn was born to play Dom Sibley in a biopic.

  3. Eng 375-7published at 10:30 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    When Dwaine Pretorius gets one to spit at Sam Curran, the camera pans to the England dressing room, where Stuart Broad and James Anderson are in hysterics.

    "Yes, we've got a lead of 400 and we get to bowl on this pitch. This nearly never happens."

    Broad is padded up. Jimmy hasn't even bothered with his whites.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 10:28 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

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    Arup Ghose: Well done England's selectors. You finally got it right! Sibley deserved his chance and has shown exactly why he scored so many runs in red-ball cricket. Fantastic! Along with Burns, England's openers are set.

  5. Eng 368-7published at 10:27 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    Lunch is hurtling towards us, but that doesn't stop the boundary being peppered. Sam Curran is the latest purveyor of South African pain, driving through extra cover for four. I'm just trying to work out if Keshav Maharaj has bowled unchanged all morning. He has 1-147 from 40. Wounded.

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  7. Eng 362-7published at 10:22 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    They all count. A Nortje bouncer climbs over both Curran and the outstretched hand of Quinton de Kock. Four byes. Harsh on the keeper.

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  9. Eng 357-7published at 10:19 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    The shot-players keep coming, don't they? Sam Curran.

    Dom Sibley could carry his bat here.

  10. Postpublished at 10:18 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Cape Town

    Not much celebration from South Africa unsurprisingly. They have been put to the sword this morning. England have moved this game on. I imagine the declaration will come some time after lunch.

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    WICKETpublished at 10:16 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    Buttler c De Kock b Nortje 23 (Eng 356-7)

    Selfless from Jos Buttler, who falls on his sword trying to push the score along.

    It's his trademark scoop shot, but the only thing he gets on it is enough willow/glove to get the ball to keeper Quinton de Kock.

  12. Eng 356-6published at 10:16 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    There is more than one way to skin a cat (though you shouldn't skin cats).

    While Buttler biffs, Sibley deftly turns Maharaj off his pads for four. It looks the same in the book as the one-bounce four over extra covers.

    Meanwhile, in the Big Bash Tom Banton has just hit five sixes in a row for a 16-ball fifty.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 10:14 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

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    Ash: Dad’s been at the first three days of the Test, the first day he doesn’t go Stokes tees off and Sibley tons up poor man.

  14. Eng 352-6published at 10:13 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    Lead by 398

    What do South Africa do here? They might need to put a fielder on top of Table Mountain. The Barmy Army are more likely to stop the ball than then men inside the rope. There's just under 20 minutes to go before lunch. How many might England have by then?

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    Get Involvedpublished at 10:11 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

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    Garethjbarnes73: John Higgins did you accidentally knock Sibley's button.

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    Eng 344-6published at 10:10 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    Another maximum! Buttler, possibly even with his eyes closed, hooks Nortje over long leg for six more.

    It's been carnage this morning.

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  18. Eng 338-6published at 10:08 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    Now we're talking. In my all-time top five albums. Possibly even top one. It's 25 years old in 2020. Older than half the England team

    "Move, move quick..."

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    Get Involvedpublished at 10:07 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

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    David Beckett: Ben Stokes this morning.

    Different ClassImage source, David Beckett
  20. 6 runs

    Eng 334-6published at 10:06 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2020

    Dom Sibley! Down on one knee, slog-sweeping Maharaj over cow corner for a maximum.

    Do not adjust your set....