![]() The 50 partnership brought a huge ovation from the south London crowd and despite a period of restraint, Crawley was soon approaching a half-century of his own. Crawley goes to fifty before bad light stops play Lees tried one more big shot, a top-edged pull off Jansen that just evaded Maharaj at mid-off, before the batters settled down for a time. ![]() A boundary muscled down the ground next ball was just the response the crowd wanted to see.Ĭrawley, meanwhile, delighted the crowd with back-to-back boundaries off Rabada - the first powered through point before the next was driven elegantly through mid-on. His eventful start to the innings was completed with an unsuccessful South Africa review for a catch after the ball ballooned into the cordon. Lees was then nearly run out, a direct hit from point making it very tight but the third umpire adjudged that the England left-hander got his bat down in the nick of time. The risk of that strategy was shown first ball as Lees tried to punch through the covers and sent an outside edge to Jansen, who was unable to cling on at fourth slip. Once again, England's openers - despite their recent shortage of runs - came out with the idea of imposing themselves on the South African bowlers. Kyle Verreynne and Keshav Maharaj added a few useful runs in the next few overs but then fell in the space of six balls - the latter bowled by a beauty from Broad and the former caught and bowled by Anderson. Stokes had two balls to complete his over after the break and the second of them saw Rabada prod tamely to Harry Brook at third slip. A hooping in-swinger beat Jansen (4) on the inside edge and flattened leg stump. ![]() The England skipper belatedly got his man in the last over before tea. His smile turned to a grimace, though, as the umpire stuck out his arm to signal that he had overstepped.Įngland's Ollie Robinson took his 50th Test wicket on day four at The Oval Meanwhile, Stokes was battling through knee pain in a fine spell from the other end and looked to have earned his reward when Jansen nicked an out-swinger to Pope. Robinson eventually broke the stalemate, a 50th wicket coming in just his 11th Test as Mulder (14) dragged the ball onto his stumps via his back leg, before pinning Zondo (16) in front with a big nip-backer in his next over to leave the visitors six down. #Wipeout hd fury font series#Proteas set England 130 to win the series The result was more than an hour without a boundary and even singles were scarce. Sensing the game was getting away from them, Khaya Zondo and Wiann Mulder opted to dig in, setting out their stall to defend and try to blunt England's hugely-skilled and vastly-experienced seam duo. No 565 came soon afterwards when Ryan Rickelton (8) was trapped plumb lbw, hit on the back shin, and in between those two wickets, Anderson had done for Petersen (23) - Ollie Pope taking a smart catch at fourth slip. Stuart Broad dismissed Dean Elgar to go past Glenn McGrath and onto 564 Test wickets, taking him up to fifth on the all-time listĮngland were up, though, Broad had 564 Test wickets to move ahead of the great McGrath and into fifth on the all-time wicket-takers list. A decision made all the stranger by the fact ball-tracking showed it would have missed leg stump. Broad got things going with the wicket of Elgar (36) as the third vociferous lbw appeal of the 22nd over was met in the affirmative by umpire Nitin Menon.Įlgar himself seemed convinced, too, walking off even before the finger was raised. ![]() Broad and Anderson turn game for EnglandĪnd swing, the ball did. ![]() Stokes brought himself into the attack and needed just three balls to find Erwee's edge with Joe Root taking a good catch at first slip.Įlgar and Keegan Petersen saw the Proteas through to lunch, South Africa had given themselves a solid platform from which to build, but in the hour after the interval a familiar pairing swung the game back in England's favour. The partnership had grown to 58 before England found the breakthrough. South Africa captain Dean Elgar top-scored with 36 in the tourists' second inningsĪfter slipping to 36-6 on day three, South Africa made a much better start second time around as Samel Erwee and Dean Elgar each survived a review and helped the tourists wipe out the 40-run first-innings deficit inside nine overs. ![]()
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