England v South Africa: bowlers look to turn up heat on tourists – live!

Jonny Bairstow dismissed for 99 as hosts make 362 in first inningsEngland could lose Gibson as South Africa target bowling coachAnd feel free to email Will here or tweet him @willis_macp with your thoughts 3.03pm BST 22nd over: South Africa 68-2 (Kuhn 19, Bavuma 16) Kuhn gets himself off strike with a characteristic squirt into the legside off the first ball of Rojo’s new over. Bavuma never looks entirely comfortable and then takes a single off the fourth ball with an inside edge into the legside. Kuhn defends unhappily for the last two.Dan Johnson has been in touch, continuing the talk about Jimmy that Rob was delivering earlier. It was Moores who brought him back, wasn’t it? You could probably halve separate Jimmy’s career with BB and PB: Before Broady and Post-Broady.To add to the 10th over comment on Jimmy’s career stats, it’s also worth pointing out that he has really had two separate careers. The first one, where they tried to coach out of him the quirky action, yielded about 100 wickets at 35 (using my arbitrarily chosen point sometime in 2008 on the handy statsguru slider thingy). Then once left to his own devices he managed the next 380 wickets at 26, which is absolutely world class. 2.58pm BST 21st over: South Africa 66-2 (Kuhn 18, Bavuma 15) Here’s Broad again, and it’s a maiden to Bavuma. Not much he can leave, and the final ball gets a bit big on the little man and hits him on the back hip. Ouchie. Short leg still there, by the way.David Keech is unhappy with the skipper. The subject line of his email is Another Terrible Review, and he’s talking about that strangle a couple of overs ago. I think they just got excited about two strangles in quick succession, which would have been fantastic. After improving a lot at the Oval Root has gone back to his old ways. Allowing bowler’s emotions to get the better of him and throwing away a review. It was terrible. Miles away from the bat. We may need that review for a critical decision later on. Continue reading…
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