Summary

  • South Africa slip to 88-6

  • Three wickets for Wood

  • Wood strikes with final ball of day

  • De Kock 32*, Elgar 26, Malan 15

  • England 400: Root 59, Pope 56

  • Broad 43 (28), Wood 35* (39)

  • Last-wicket stand of 82 off 50 balls

  • Nortje 5-110 - maiden five-wicket haul

  • Fourth Test, day two, Johannesburg

  • England lead 2-1 in four-Test series

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Kal Sajad

  1. How to deliver the new ball

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    The new ball to be delivered by a mole popping out of a molehill next to the square leg umpire.

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  2. Here's a fact which often sparks an open-jaw response ... I've never seen or read Harry Potter. Am I alone in this?

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  4. That reminds me of the time a parachutist descended into a boxing ring to temporarily halt a fight between Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield.

    Maybe sky divers could be used to drop in the new ball.

  5. Adam Mountford
    BBC Test Match Special in Johannesburg

    Plenty of excitement at the start of lunch as five sky divers land on the ground at the Wanderers much to the delight of the Saturday crowd.

    The WanderersBBC Sport

  6. I'm liking it, David.

    Any other suggestions on how we should celebrate the new ball being taken?

  7. Get Involved

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    Why isn't the new ball taken with more ceremony? I would have it brought out on a silver tray by an entourage of butlers and footmen ... maybe accompanied by a troupe of circus acrobats.

    David in Buntingford

  8. Cheers Matt.

    A top start from Root and Pope this morning before that collapse/wobble/whatever you want to call it. Anrich Nortje has been superb for the hosts.

    All eyes will be on how Buttler, in desperate need of runs, plays after he's scoffed his lunchtime sarnies. I reckon he's an egg and cress type fella.

  9. I'm being sent to the shop again. Here's Kal Sajad to take you through the afternoon session.

  10. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Johannesburg

    I don't know what South Africa were doing to start with, banging it in. You have to bowl really full on a pitch like this. That helps the ball swing too.

  11. There were 108 runs and three wickets in that session in just under 28 overs. It has been pretty even. Anrich Nortje dragged South Africa back into it with a great spell of fast bowling.

  12. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Johannesburg

    I don't agree with Zak Crawley. This is a 350 surface, possibly even more. We have seen lovely shots, but you have to get in. Root was loose, he walked off kicking his bat. It's a quick outfield, the ball goes fast at this altitude. England still have work to do. South Africa are very much in this game.

  13. Lunch - Eng 300-7

    Buttler 16, Woakes 19

    Four more. This is a proper edge off the bat of Jos Buttler. Faf du Plessis is applauding his bowler. Buttler just about survives until lunch. That has been another great session of cricket.

  14. Eng 295-7

    A thick edge from Chris Woakes goes down to third man for four. The new ball is leaking runs.

  15. Beuran Hendricks is sharing the new ball. Vernon Philander has bowled three overs today...

  16. Eng 291-7

    Dwaine Pretorius won't get the second new ball many more times for South Africa if he bowls much more like this. Woakes gets a freebie of a leg-stump half volley first up and punishes him.

    The South Africa team masseuse might have to get to work on Anrich Nortje over lunch.

  17. Eng 286-7

    South Africa take the new ball three balls into Dwaine Pretorius' over.

  18. Eng 284-7

    Buttler 12, Woakes 7

    Chris Woakes is a very good man to have at number nine but should be at number nine? Sam Curran has never scored a first-class or Test hundred. Woakes has 10, one of which was at Test level. Woakes averages 34.24 in first-class cricket. Curran averages 28.74.

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  20. Eng 281-7

    This match is building up to be a cracker. Just when you think England are on top South Africa fight back. Lunch is at 10:45 GMT.