• First Test day two:
South Africa 284 & 72-4,
England 181• Tourists lose their last seven wickets for just 39 runs
The first Test is moving at a breakneck pace and in all probability in South Africa’s direction. On another steamy day 15 wickets fell, most of them English and the equation looks dire for the tourists.
They were bowled out for 181 inside 54 overs, 103 runs behind South Africa’s first innings score. England have prevailed after a bigger deficit than this earlier this year somewhere up north. But a repetition is unlikely, not just because Jack Leach is absent. The ball is misbehaving more in Pretoria than it did at Leeds in August and at the close of play, despite some wobbles South Africa were leading by 175 with six wickets in hand.