![]() “I’m trying to do my best as possible, I’m trying to stay in the moment and not think about other things that can fill my mind,” he said. The 32-year-old was playing only his fifth Test innings but seemed anything but overawed by his surroundings. That’s something we’ll want to take forward, knowing that once the ball gets softer we can score a lot of runs.”Įrwee, by contrast, thought “conditions got a bit trickier as the day went on, the wicket got a bit two-paced”. But it was really good batting conditions, particularly when the ball got softer. I thought it was really good cricket from South Africa to realise conditions had changed and they could get on top and attack us a little bit. “We had the ball swinging, then we changed the ball and it didn’t really do anything for us. “They played really well, a little counterattacking moment,” he said. And that’s what those sorts of players do – they put bums on seats because you want to see these guys, the theatre they bring, and I thought Stokes brought great theatre in that middle period after tea.”īroad admitted the partnership between Maharaj, who was dismissed for 41, and Jansen, who remains unbeaten on the same score, caused some frustration – but also some optimism. The bouncer to get rid of was a really big wicket, it gave us a bit of energy and got the crowd going a bit. “He carries an inspirational style about what he does,” Broad said. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Action Images/Reuters The England captain then trapped Rassie van der Dussen lbw in his next over, before returning to dismiss Maharaj shortly before stumps.īen Stokes celebrates after taking the wicket of South Africa's Rassie van der Dussen. Sarel Erwee top-scored for South Africa with a commanding 73, an innings that ended when he fended Stokes’s bouncer to Ben Foakes behind the stumps. “Obviously we’re going to have to have a couple of great days, but we’ve proved this summer that anything can happen and we feel really positive in the changing-room that we’ve got ourselves back in the game.” “So we’ve got to try to get enough ahead that we can try and defend that on day four and five on a relatively dry pitch. “When you get bowled out relatively cheaply in the first innings, you’ve got to make it a first- versus fourth-innings game,” said Broad. After reducing South Africa from 138 for one to 210 for six – with Broad taking the last of those wickets, his 100th at Lord’s – a freewheeling partnership of 72 between Keshav Maharaj and Marco Jansen returned the tourists to the ascendancy.
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