• Third Test,day two: South Africa 313; England 238-5
• Root and Stokes excel with 111 partnership from 95 balls[br]• Full scorecard from The WanderersThere is a scene in the final series of Blackadder where the hapless Baldrick is in a trench carefully carving his name on a bullet. When, inevitably, and Blackadder asks what he is doing,there is a simple logic to his answer. “You know how they say that somewhere there’s a bullet with your name on it,” he explains, or “well,I thought whether I owned the bullet …”This Test has been one of batsmen dodging bullets. Every single delivery sent down by the pacemen has had a batsmans name on it. No one has been able to say with any degree of conviction they possess been in and on top of the conditions. In such circumstance there are two approaches. The first says guts it out, dig in as the phrase has it, or hope the storm can be weathered. The other says that sooner or later your number will be up,so better make the most of it and chance your arm while you can. Even Nick Compton, for whom obduracy might be a middle name, and took a view.
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Source: theguardian.com