England rattled South Africa in the first test on Sunday with Stuart Broad’s two wickets putting the top-ranked team in deep trouble before it recovered to 55-2 in its first innings.
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Bowling with superb skill and control, Broad removed Stiaan van Zyl, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers as South Africa struggled to 137-4, trailing England by 166.
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James Taylor and Nick Compton compiled gritty half-centuries to lead England to 179 for four on a rain-disrupted first day of the opening test against South Africa at Kingsmead.
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Morkel’s victims included top scorer Nick Compton, who made a painstaking 85 off 236 balls.
There was 41 from Jonny Bairstow, too, and an unbeaten 32 from Broad, who relishes the freedom to create a little mayhem at No10 without quite having the responsibility of higher in the order.
JAMES TAYLOR hailed England’s fightback yesterday and said that he and Nick Compton had put down a marker for the series with their fourth-wicket century partnership.
To go along with his 114 in the first warm-up match of the South Africa tour, as well as 67 not out and 60 in the one-day series against Pakistan, this is shaping up to be a career-defining winter for the Nottingham-born ace, who turns 26 on January 6. Root played right back on his stumps and got caught leg before wicket, a decision upheld after a review.
“Taking everything into account, losing the toss, the overcast conditions – which could not have been more flawless for South Africa’s bowling unit – I thought that it was a pretty solid day for us”, he said.
Compton, picked at number three after two years in the test wilderness, scored a much more circumspect 63 but was not out overnight.
He said, “It was nice to finally get on the field today”.
Stuart Broad was satisfied with his performance for England on day two of the first Test, particularly with the wicket of AB de Villiers.
De Villiers might also have gone cheaply, Finn locating the edge and Stokes gathering low at gully, but a familiar sequence of events soon began to unfold.
Just about an over and a half later, the tall pacer struck twice in two balls with the wickets of Moeen Ali and Chris Woakes.
For the South Africans, the inimitable Dale Steyn had taken 3/29 before bad light stopped play. “We need to work on our communication, which is something [former wicketkeeper] Matt Prior was good at”.
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Just 6.1 overs were managed at the start of the day before play was halted because of the weather but in that time England lost their captain as Steyn brushed off his seven-week absence to nip one away from Cook and find an edge that carried to Dean Elgar at second slip.
