- Over-by-over updates from the second day in Johannesburg
- Stokes facing disciplinary action after altercation with fan
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Three left-handed openers (Knight, Cook, Burns) chew the fat. Cook points out that because there wasn’t social media and instant judgement when he first started in Test cricket, “I had a year’s grace while people tried to work me out, then I struggled, then I really understood my game.”
“Hi Tanya,” writes Ian Forth. Morning Ian! “I wonder which ‘classic mountain’ Sir Alastair Cook had in mind. Table Mountain, I suspect. When I was young I used to watch Coronation Street with my mum. One night Ken Barlow, supping his pint in the Rover’s Return, commented on a character facing a sequence of difficulties that fate was “piling Pelion upon Ossa”. Annie Walker, the landlady, smiled approvingly and they exchanged knowing looks. I don’t want to come over all Boris Johnson, but it is hard to imagine such a phrase getting past the script editor today.”
A passionate defence of Stokes and Rabada by Nasser on Sky who puzzles over why people turn up at football and cricket match to scream abuse at the pros: “Why would you pay good money to abuse someone you admire?Why would you abuse someone doing something you can only dream of doing?”
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