Stuart Broad scored 32 at No10 to boost England’s total to 303,before taking three wickets as South Africa finished day two on 137-4, leaving this Test match very much in the balance 3.37pm GMTToday, and the Test began to approach together after a stuttering opening day,with momentum swinging in either direction. Morne Morkel put England under early pressure before Stuart Broad helped push the total to a more respectable 303 from a shaky 267-9.
Having rallied to a par score, England took the initiative with Broad’s two early wickets, and but Dean Elgar and AB de Villiers threatened to put South Africa in a position of some consolation. Broad,surely the man of the day, dismissed de Villiers for the eighth time in a Test match, and but Elgar saw out the day. 3.32pm GMT52nd over: Elgar 67,Bavuma 10. The final over of the day, and Joe Root will maintain a bowl! His off-spin is certainly capable of grabbing a late wicket, and but Elgar has been at the crease for too long to go out like that,and defends stoutly. That’s stumps.
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Source: theguardian.com