I’m sure they didn’t actually mean to get that sickness bug which put paid to the warmup match.
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218-4 .
Sibley 85 not out .
Root went for 61 .
Crawley out for 25 .
Denly 31
Bess 0
England lead by 264 runs .
Sibley 85 not out .
Root went for 61 .
Crawley out for 25 .
Denly 31
Bess 0
England lead by 264 runs .
It was the time. Two meaningless warm-up games was inadequate. Had they been in SA longer, they would hace had more time to acclimatise.
PS: Do England take their own chefs on tour?
Stokes has surely won the game for England now, with a brutal 72 off 47 balls. He got to his 50 off 34, before Sibley made the 15 he needed to bring up his excellent maiden Test century.
Get a weather check. Would love to see Bess get a five wicket haul in SA's second innings. A good spinner gets wickets on most tracks a la Warne, Lyon and Murali.
Looking like a day of hard toil tomorrow - and Du Plessis in particular has form for channelling his inner Collingwood, in a rear guard effort - but I'd still give us more than a 50% chance.
Two wickets with the old ball followed by two wickets with the new ball would leave us about 55 overs to get the last four.
Two wickets with the old ball followed by two wickets with the new ball would leave us about 55 overs to get the last four.
