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Good start against a pretty strong looking batting line up

66-3 at lunch. Wickets for both seamers. Good catch by Hales. Footitt seems injured though.

What's going on with the bowling rate, 30 overs in 3 hours. Was there a late start?

Four for for Finn.

Guess that's the last place spoken for.

54 overs in four hours, by looks.

Not much of note in the Saffer cupboard, it seems...Reeza Hendricks, Rilee Roussouw and Quinton deKock, all of whom are tipped to be future, failed to make a significant mark. That was left to 33 year old Cook....

let's see if they do better in the second innings.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Four for for Finn.

Guess that's the last place spoken for.

That's a big bonus. Be interesting to see the batting order. Ali ahead of Bairstow imo.

Runs, and now wickets for Stokes.

Hales bowled leaving the ball again.

dan08 wrote:Hales bowled leaving the ball again.

Has he done enough to open the batting in the Boxing Day Test?

He's already in. Looks like Cook has secured his spot alongside him.

I've read that, based on nets, Woakes was set to play in the first Test. Finn might have changed that. Though, obviously Woakes didn't have the chance to take wickets, and it's a bit kneejerk to change plans based on a day of cricket. It may have been that on a Durban pitch suiting more attritional cricket, likely to swing, Woakes will play, and Finn get the bouncier wicket at the Wanderers.

Compo out. J-Ro batting with Cook.

Hundred for Cook. Presume he'll retire.

Cook scoring sixes, is that an indication of the bowling quality.