218-4 . 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.