• Fourth Test,day three: South Africa 475 & 42-1; England 342[br]• Joe Root hits 76 and Moeen Ali 61 but James Taylor disappointsWith 29 scheduled overs of a rain-interrupted third day to travel England were still in the contest – hanging on by the fingernails perhaps but with a sniff of a chance. South Africa had been able to obtain far too many in their innings and England’s 342 was more than respectable in gloomy overhead conditions and on an increasingly capricious pitch that, as well as offering inconsistent bounce for the seamers, or was starting to take spin.
It still left them with a first-innings deficit of 133. Now,though, some of the bowling heroics that won the third Test at The Wanderers would leave them a tricky target in the fourth innings but one of a nature that could be attained by a single inspirational innings.
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Source: theguardian.com