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. SA 237-7published at 14:30 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    You know that conversation between Buttler and Philander? There were some very naughty words in there. Still Dom Bess, now round the wicket...

  2. Postpublished at 14:28 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Ryan Sidebottom
    Ex-England bowler on The Cricket Social

    Whatever Root does as England captain, he is under scrutiny. He has done a valiant job.

  3. SA 237-7published at 14:28 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Now then. I thought Stuart Broad got a second warning earlier today, but it turns out that was only his first. Now the second has come. One more and he has to go from the attack. He's sending down leg-cutters to Pretorius, mixed in with the odd bumper. Ben Stokes is getting loose.

    18 overs remain.

  4. SA 237-7published at 14:25 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    19 overs left

    Both Philander and Pretorius can bat. If England can break them, only Rabada and Nortje are left. Big Vern and Jos Buttler are involved in some verbals, though it may be that Buttler is doing all the talking and Philander is keeping his mouth shut. Either way, it's a Bess maiden. It might be time for some pace from that end.

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    Doing my bit for Englandpublished at 14:23 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

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    AF: Left my desk for the first time in hours and Denly gets QDK. Looks like I’ll have to take the rest of the day off.

    Ben Cole: So apparently I need to keep moving my car. Nightmare in the work car park, but every time I go out and move it a wicket has fallen today.

  6. SA 237-7published at 14:22 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    I'm trying to decide which was a worse delivery, the one that got De Kock, or this one to Van der Dussen. It would have been a leg-side wide in a one-dayer.

    Dwaine Pretorius is the new man.

    20 overs remain.

  7. Postpublished at 14:21 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Cape Town

    Another unusual dismissal for England. Another pretty ordinary ball.

  8. Postpublished at 14:21 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on The Cricket Social

    James Anderson round the corner at leg slip! Aren't you glad he stayed on now?!

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    WICKETpublished at 14:18 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Van der Dussen c Anderson b Broad 17 (SA 237-7)

    Sometimes, Joe Root gets some flak for his captaincy. When moments like this come along, he deserves nothing but praise.

    For some reason, a leg gully is posted for Rassie van der Dussen. From the very next ball, he turns a nothing leg-stump ball straight to the man. It was like catching practice.

    Stuart Broad has his man, Van der Dussen's 140-ball vigil is over and England are edging towards victory.

    Stuart BroadImage source, Gett
  10. Postpublished at 14:16 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on The Cricket Social

    I wouldn't mind Dom Bess coming round the wicket to Vernon Philander.

    Bess is either too short or too full a bit too much at the moment.

    He might get a bit more drift and drop from round the wicket.

  11. SA 237-6published at 14:15 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    21 overs left

    Dom Bess is absolutely filthy. Most of the England team have whites with the odd mark, but Bess is covered. How has he got red streaks on his knees? And shoulders?

    His off-breaks are designed to get the ball turning into Philander, getting short leg and leg slip into play. Too full for most of the over, a short one from the last ball taking the glove and dying into the ground. There are four catchers around the bat. Why not more?

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    Get Involvedpublished at 14:13 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Text 81111

    Four-day Test cricket can, quite frankly, do one.

    Richard in Sheffield

  13. SA 237-6published at 14:13 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Here comes Dom Bess...

  14. Postpublished at 14:12 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Ryan Sidebottom
    Ex-England bowler on The Cricket Social

    England's seamers need to make Rassie van der Dussen to play at a lot more.

  15. SA 237-6published at 14:11 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    All game, Stuart Broad has tried to hit the crack outside off stump. Trouble is, if he keeps doing that, Van der Dussen doesn't have to play. Broad gets better as this over goes on, VDD now playing around his pad. Leading edge in play, so too lbw.

    22 overs to go.

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    Doing my bit for Englandpublished at 14:09 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

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    Tony Buchanan: I used a Uri Geller mind control bowling visualisation to assist with that last next wicket. I'll do it again, hang on. *strains, eyes closed, like a coiled cobra in middle of sales office*.

  17. SA 237-6published at 14:09 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Oh yeah, I forgot Adil Rashid.

    Ben Stokes is at second slip for Stuart Broad. He's almost on the batsman's toes.

  18. Postpublished at 14:08 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on The Cricket Social

    I always turn off when I'm watching Arsenal. We always lose when I watch them so I go elsewhere. I did it last night and we won.

  19. SA 237-6published at 14:08 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    23 overs left

    It's still Denly, England's greatest leg-spinner since, who?

    Mason Crane? Scott Borthwick? Chris Schofield? Ian Salisbury? Mike Atherton?

    Philander defends, but not with certainty. Who would ever have thought we would be in the situation where England are asking Joe Denly to bowl them to victory?

    In Denners, we trust.

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    Doing my bit for Englandpublished at 14:06 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2020

    Text 81111

    Taken up my super-over position on the arm of the sofa hiding behind a cushion, so I'm doing my bit for England's cause.

    Danny in Liverpool