At stumps on day three, the Proteas were 208/6 in their first innings, with wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock and all-rounder Vernon Philander the not-out batsmen with the hosts needing another 92 runs to make the visitors – whose first innings was declared on 499/9 – bat again.
The two sides took early lunch at 11.48am and only got back to the pitch at 3.26pm. But it wasn’t before young off-spinner Dom Bess had taken all five of the Proteas’ first innings wickets – the 22-year-old’s maiden five-for – as they went to lunch on 113/5. Nortje’s three-hour-plus vigil of 18 from 136 balls ended when he guided an edge to Root at slip off Stokes, but De Kock seemed to be batting on a different wicket to the rest, his scorecard glittering with some lovely straight drives off the quicker men.
Should a combination of their day-three fight and rain forecast somehow buy the Proteas enough time to head to the Wanderers with the series still tied, they’ll have to do it without the services of fast bowler Kagiso Rabada.
Probably enough good weather to force a follow-on, not good!
Hoe is the wearther today?
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