Postpublished at 15:35 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Daniel Norcross
BBC Radio
Not out. South Africa have burned two reviews and have just the one left.
But it's a different game when Nortje and Rabada are bowling.
Summary
Elgar & Erwee survive 9 overs
England 415-9 dec - lead of 264
Foakes 113*, Stokes 103, Bairstow 49
Stokes & Foakes add 173 for 6th wkt
Nortje 3-82, Maharaj 2-78
Second Test, day two, Old Trafford
Today at the Test, BBC Two, 19:00 BST
Postpublished at 15:35 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Not outpublished at 15:35 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Miles down leg.
Kyle Verreynne can hardly believe it is not out. He must have got his angles wrong.
Postpublished at 15:34 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Vic Marks
Former England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialI think it has hit the front pad and then gone on to the back pad so I think it's going down leg.
Postpublished at 15:34 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Daniel Norcross
BBC RadioVerreynne likes this so much he is running down the wicket. Is it not going down? Elgar asks that question but he's gone for it.
South Africa reviewpublished at 84.1 overs
Stokes on 96
Anrich Nortje into the attack and his first ball is full and hits Ben Stokes on the pad, although it did seem to be drifting down leg.
Is this a review from South Africa's players more in hope than expectation?
Postpublished at 15:31 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Daniel Norcross
BBC RadioThe 300 is up which brings rapturous applause. I can see people standing.
What a strange game cricket is. In the last game, England gave up a massive deficit and in this one they look like imposing one on South Africa.
Eng 300-5published at 83.3 overs
Ben Foakes works Kagiso Rabada off his legs for a single to bring up the 300 for England. Fantastic partnership by these two.
Postpublished at 15:29 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Daniel Norcross
BBC RadioNgidi has bowled a few slower balls in this spell and I often wonder why they are not deployed as much in Test matches when these bowlers have perfected them in white-ball cricket.
Eng 299-5published at 83 overs
Ben Stokes takes a single off Lungi Ngidi's over followed by four dots to Ben Foakes, who then pinches the strike off the final ball.
You would imagine the England skipper will want that hundred banked before the tea break.
Postpublished at 15:26 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Daniel Norcross
BBC RadioThe crowd have just spotted the 150 partnership. It came from a late-called no-ball in Rabada's over, and it does rather take the crowd by surprise.
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England's lead is 147 and the partnership between these two is worth 151. England closing in on 300. Stokes six from a century.
Lungi Ngidi continues.
Postpublished at 15:23 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Vic Marks
Former England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialThis will be interesting because I think Stokes' natural inclination will be to go after the new ball. And if you get a bat on it, it will race away.
I wouldn't go for an early tea if I were in the stands.
Eng 297-5published at 82 overs
About 20 minutes to go until tea.
Third ball of Kagiso Rabada's over beats the defensive prod of Ben Foakes with an absolutely pearler. His next deliver then cuts Foakes in two, but just misses the inside edge.
Rabada is relatively expressionless, belying a phlegmatic personality perhaps.
Quite a gripping period of play this.
Postpublished at 15:19 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Everything has pinged nicely off Ben Stokes' bat this afternoon. Including this six from a little earlier.
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match SpecialYou've got to be taking those, Victor.
Postpublished at 15:18 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Vic Marks
Former England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialStokes absolutely middled it, it looked a certain four but Markram took off and got his hands to it. It was barely a chance but it will go down as a drop in the Simon Mann school of thought.
Stokes dropped on 92published at 80.2 overs
Ben Stokes dances down the pitch and gives it the kitchen sink to Lungi Ngidi's next ball. The fielder at cover - Aiden Markram - manages to get a hand on it, but such is the ferocity of the shot from Stokes he is unable to cling on to it.
The England captain really got hold of it - that would have been some grab.
Postpublished at 15:15 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match SpecialIt was a poorly directed delivery and relatively easy pickings for Stokes. It flew off the bat.
Eng 292-5published at 80.1 overs
Lungi Ngidi has bowled few overs before the new ball so should be in some sort of rhythm. However, he slips on to the legs of Ben Stokes who whips it for through fine leg.
Not an ideal start for the South Africa pace bowler with the new cherry.
Postpublished at 15:13 British Summer Time 26 August 2022
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match SpecialIt's not quite their last hope in the game but the new ball is going to be big for South Africa. The lead is still likely to be 150 minimum.