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By Tom Fordyce
SOUTH AFRICA SECOND INNINGS
0847: SA 331-2
If you’re just waking up, two things: (a) what time do you call this, there’s snowballs to be thrown, and (b) you don’t want to know what Australia did to Pakistan overnight. 9-1 they were for the victory. I know. Onions to Kallis, and that’s a dreamy shot - slight strayer onto the pads, but he’s drilled that effortlessly between midwicket and mid-on. Lead to 349. From David, Gloucester, TMS inbox: "
.if the Enger-Land bowlers have been ball-tampering then they aren’t very good at it - what was it yesterday 300 runs & 2 wickets
.."0843: SA 325-2
Smith’s not messing about here - smashing slashing cut past point for four, a fuller one driven with muscular power through cover for two to Cook on the sweep and then - wooh - four more, this time streakily off the outside edge past a despairing Bell at backward point. Few fears in the track, but then there didn’t seem to be any in Durban last week before South Africa came in for their second innings, did there 0837: SA 315-2
What do we think South Africa will declare on here Lead of 400 450 I’m thinking the latter - Smith to his double ton, England ground into the dirt… Mind you, Graham Onions has other thoughts - two doozies past Smith’s outside edge, and the cherry is chatting like a canary this morning. 0833: SA 314-2
Here we go - James Anderson, new ball in hand, Graeme Smith on 162 not out, Jacques Kallis on 21 - singles, jabbed down into the leg-side. Oof - absolute ripper from Anderson, angling in to Kallis and then jagging away off the track to leave the mighty-armed batsman poking at thin air. 0823: Mind you, there is a bit of a stink in the air - allegations of ball-tampering against James Anderson to go with the whinges about Stuart Broad standing on the ball on Tuesday. Breaking news is that there will be no official complaint from the South African team, although some ex-pros in the ground think the damage has already been done by the unofficial complaints.0815: Cape Town Scorchio. There’ll be snow no-drifts - I’m sorry, no snow drifts - to save England’s bacon at Newlands today.0800: And so they came, one by one, across the snowy wastes - small figures, wrapped in blankets, struggling through the knee-deep drifts, sometimes falling, sometimes faltering, but forever pressing onwards, for they had but one aim - to get to the office in time to do the text commenta… actually, it wasn’t that hard, was itThis article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.