Well they came off at 62-1 after 22 overs for rain and then went straight back on again ?
Now they are back off and lunch is called.
Ah.
The old settled side trick eh?
Close of play
England 171 -4 from 59 overs
Jennings got a duck
Westly made 25
Malan made 1
Root made 29
Cook 82 not out
Stokes 21 not out
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Day 2 is underway 6 overs in
Cook goes for 88
England 190 - 5 off 66 overs
Currently 218/5 from 71 overs. New ball due pretty soon. Interesting comment from the great Michael Holding, that as a bowling side you’d be disappointed to concede 300 runs on this pitch. Could be a low-scoring game then.
Thats Stokes 50
England 234 -5 off 73.3 overs
So that’s 353 all out. If Michael Holding is to be believed that’s a pretty decent score. But, as Sir Geoffrey always likes to point out, you don’t know how a pitch is playing until both sets of batters and bowlers have had a go on it. Bring on the SA batsmen and our bowlers!
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South Africa 27- 2 after 12 overs
Elgar and Kuhn back in the clubhouse
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Amla goes for 6
SA 30 for 3 off 13 overs
Roland-Jones with all three wickets so far.
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TRJ must be on something…he is on fire 
4 wickets down 
47 runs
SA now 47/4 as Toblerone has snaffled de Kock (I enjoyed typing that) to go with his other three! England’s total looking better by the minute here.
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And it’s 47/5 as Anderson gets Faf du Plessis. Bloody hell.
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Some official with the SA team walking out to the umpires with a white flag…they think it is all over
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Roland Jones is on 4 for 20 from 36 balls
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What a marvellous evening to be on a mission to get slightly pickled.
With a bunch of South Africans…
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Come on England…bring on Feddie Trueman…he’ll knock em over
It is now
51 -6 Morris goes
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Now getting it’s only the 1st innings… .
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61 - 7 Stokes gets Maharaj for 5