Summary

  • England clinch win with 8.2 overs left

  • Four-match series level at 1-1

  • Stokes 3-35 - last three wickets

  • Eng take five wickets in final session

  • Debutant Malan 84 (288), De Kock 50

  • Van der Dussen 17 off 140 balls

  • SA were chasing Test record 438

  • Anderson has suspected side injury

  • Second Test, Cape Town, day five

  1. get involved

    Waiting for a cricketerpublished at 10:03 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Text 81111

    A 6-year-old me once waited 45 minutes to ask Curtly Ambrose to sign my programme when he was playing for Northamptonshire. My confidence in asking drained as his 6ft 7in frame came walking towards me but he couldn't have been friendlier!

    Chris in Peterborough

  2. SA 163-3published at 10:02 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    70 overs left

    Classy from Gower. Not just handing out an autograph, but testing your mind too. Joe Root might have wanted to remove Ben Stokes from the attack, but the vice-captain gets one more over. Stokes pounds away, encouraged by the slips and the keeper - Jos Buttler is particularly vocal. It's a maiden. Nothing happening.

  3. get involved

    Waiting for a cricketerpublished at 09:59 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Text 81111

    My cousin Nick was at The Parks in the 1980s and asked David Gower for an autograph. He said that he could only have one if he could tell him which dialling code was for Inner London and which one was for Outer London. Luckily he got it right.

    Tom in Perthshire

  4. SA 163-3published at 09:58 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Target 438

    Too short from Bess, allowing Malan to rock back and cut for four. Not a lot of people know this, but the young Pieter Malan split his time between playing for South Africa Under-19s and getting work as a lookalike of Sreech from Saved By The Bell.

    Pieter MalanImage source, Gett
  5. Postpublished at 09:55 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

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  6. SA 159-3published at 09:55 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Stokes puffs out his cheeks and sets off towards Malan. He has sweat on his brow and his shirt buttoned right up to his throat. A full ball is driven by Du Plessis, not convincingly, but all along the ground behind point for four. Stokes lets out a prolonged scream of frustration. This pitch is behaving like a child on Christmas Eve, when England actually need it to throw a temper tantrum. The new ball is only six overs away, though.

  7. get involved

    Waiting for a cricketerpublished at 09:51 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    #bbccricket

    mlgraham73: In 1993 I took a party of primary school kids to see Ian Botham's last match for Durham against Australia. Queuing for autographs outside the Aussie dressing room, the kids were rewarded with Merv Hughes wiping the steam from the window to give them the middle finger.

  8. SA 154-3published at 09:50 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Target 438

    England bring in a leg slip for Bess. Du Plessis, as usual, has his shirt untucked. It makes him look a bit like he's playing Sunday cricket. Bess, behind his shades, puts his hands on his head when he hits Du Plessis on the pads, but that's well outside the line. This is going to take a while...

  9. Postpublished at 09:48 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Ryan Sidebottom
    Ex-England bowler on The Cricket Social

    A loose delivery can sometimes bring you a wicket because the batsman is in block mode, sees a loose one and doesn't know what to do with it.

  10. dropped catch

    Close!published at 09:47 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    SA 153-3

    Edged!

    Faf du Plessis goes hard at Ben Stokes, edging high over the leap of the gully fielder. Not the sort of stroke you want to be playing when trying to save a game. Next ball, Stokes uses the reverse to go past the outside edge. The excitement draws life from the Barmy Army.

    Stokes has bowled well so far this morning.

  11. Postpublished at 09:43 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on The Cricket Social

    Dom Bess doesn't need different tricks. Not everyone is Murali! He just needs subtle changes of pace, line and length. It's about teasing out wickets.

    He's bowling nicely at the moment.

  12. SA 148-3published at 09:42 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    75 overs left

    A slip and a short leg for off-spinner Bess as he walks in to the gum-chewing Malan. There's not as much rough for the right-hander to worry about when compared with the lefties, but there's still a puff of dust when the ball lands. No real turn, though.

  13. Postpublished at 09:40 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Adam Mountford
    BBC Test Match Special in Cape Town

    Newlands looking at its absolute best here today. Beautiful sunshine and Table Mountain looking magnificent against the piercing blue sky.

    Cape TownImage source, BBC Sport
  14. SA 148-3published at 09:40 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Do people still ask for autographs, or is it all about selfies?

    Pieter Malan has looked so impressive, it makes you wonder why it has taken so long to pick him. He's 30 and with more than 10,000 first-class runs to his name. He's also done his time with clubs in the north of England. Barrow, Ramsbottom and Royton.

  15. Postpublished at 09:35 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Ryan Sidebottom
    Ex-England bowler on The Cricket Social

    The ball doesn't have to do too much in these situations. The batsmen are going to be nervous and that creates chances.

  16. get involved

    Waiting for a cricketerpublished at 09:34 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Text 81111

    Once asked Gooch for his autograph Essex were playing at Colchester. His response was wait until after the game. So I sat there, as patiently was a 10 year old can, until stumps, only for him to disappear in record time. Thankfully, an opposition player, by the name of Ian Botham (who netted with a young lad with leukaemia before the match) sensed my disapointment and happily signed away.

    Stavros

  17. Postpublished at 09:32 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Ryan Sidebottom
    Ex-England bowler on The Cricket Social

    Where was Stuart Broad when you needed him there?! He would've been straight up in appeal.

  18. drinks break

    Drinks breakpublished at 09:31 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    SA 146-3

    The plot thickens. In the same over as when Anderson-Du Plessis aggro started, there was one ball that Faf jammed between bat and pad. It actually hit the pad first and would have gone on to hit the top of middle stump. England didn't even appeal.

    That battle is halted due to the introduction of Dom Bess, who appeals for bat-pad against Du Plessis, only to be left disappointed.

  19. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 09:27 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Text 81111

    I forced my older brothers to wait for over 2 hours after play finished in the rain to get Brian Lara's autograph at Old Trafford in 2004. I was 9 at the time and he was the best batsman in the world so it made sense. I obtained Pedro Collins and Ashley Giles signatures too for good measure.

    Dan, Liverpool

  20. SA 143-3published at 09:26 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    In fact, despite Du Plessis and Stokes appearing to be mates, there are verbals out there. Anderson and Faf, possibly with Stuart Broad involved too. Umpire Kumar Dharmasena tells everyone to calm down. Anderson is at mid-on for this Stokes over, still not shy of a word despite Dharmasena's ticking off. Feisty.