Lord’s century for Broad provides scant consolation as England struggle to contain South Africa

On
day
two
of
the
first
Test,
South
Africa
clipped
the
English
tail
to
turn
an
overnight
116-6
into
165
all
out,
before
going
on
to
reach
289-7
themselves
by
stumps.

South
Africa’s
lead
of
124
runs
came
about
largely
thanks
to
Sarel
Erwee’s
73
and
a
seventh-wicket
flurry
that
came
with
a
hint
of
‘Bazball’ about
it.

That
is,
of
course,
the
nickname
that
has
been
afforded
to
England’s
vivacious
batting
approach
since
Ben
Stokes
and
Brendon
McCullum
became
the
captain
and
coach
partnership,
and
the
ball
repeatedly
raced
away
to
the
boundary
as
South
Africa
showed
off
their
own
attacking
flair.

On
Friday
(August
19),
the
hosts
must
step
up,
or
they
will
soon
slide
1-0
behind
in
this
three-match
series.

After
Wednesday’s
play
was
curtailed
by
rain,
South
Africa
should
have
seen
the
back
of
England
anchorman
Ollie
Pope
in
the
first
over
of
Thursday’s
action,
but
Erwee
made
a
laughably
bad
attempt
to
cling
to
an
edge
off
Kagiso
Rabada
at
first
slip,
juggling
before
the
ball
hit
the
deck.

Rabada
had
a
stroke
of
luck
in
removing
Pope
soon
afterwards,
with
an
inside
edge
into
his
stumps
accounting
for
the
batsman,
whose
73
provided
the
only
substantial
home
resistance.

Broad
also
fell
to
Rabada,
fooled
by
a
slower
ball,
and
after
Jansen
bowled
Jack
Leach,
Rabada
completed
figures
of
5-52
by
pinning
James
Anderson
lbw.

Captain
Dean
Elgar
looked
sharp
with
the
bat
at
the
outset
of
South
Africa’s
reply
and
had
reached
47
when
Anderson
struck
in
bizarre
fashion,
the
ball
trickling
onto
the
stumps
after
hitting
the
Proteas
skipper
on
the
pad
and
arm.

Keegan
Petersen
and
Aiden
Markram
fell
for
modest
scores,
the
latter
prised
out
by
Leach
after
a
snick
to
Ben
Foakes
from
the
first
ball
after
tea.

Stokes
then
dismissed
Erwee
with
a
snorting
delivery
that
might
have
hurt
the
batsman’s
chin
had
he
not
put
the
bat
there
in
self-defence,
the
ball
looping
up
for
Foakes
to
take
safely.

The
home
skipper
had
Rassie
van
der
Dussen
pegged
lbw
moments
later,
and
Broad
reached
his
Lord’s
wickets
century
when
Foakes
held
on
to
remove
Kyle
Verreynne.

Stokes
broke
up
the
entertaining
72-run
seventh-wicket
alliance
between
Marco
Jansen
(41
not
out)
and
Keshav
Maharaj
(41)
as
the
light
began
to
fade,
but
it
was
resoundingly
South
Africa’s
day.

40
–

@jimmy9
is
the
first
40-year-old
to
bowl
at
the

@HomeOfCricket
in
a
Test
since
Graham
Gooch
in
1994,
and
the
first
to
take
a
wicket
there
since
Eddie
Hemmings
(1990).
Quadragenarian.

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—
OptaJim
(@OptaJim)

August
18,
2022

Broad’s
100
puts
him
in
familiar
company

Broad
is
the
second
member
to
enter
the
Lord’s
100-wicket
club,
joining
Anderson
(117
wickets)
in
getting
to
three
figures.

It
was
the
sixth
instance
overall
of
a
bowler
taking
100
Test
scalps
at
a
single
venue,
with
Sri
Lanka
great
Muttiah
Muralitharan
responsible
for
three
of
those
ton-up
feats,
with
centuries
of
wickets
in
Kandy,
Galle
and
Colombo.

Muralitharan’s
compatriot
Rangana
Herath
also
managed
100
Test
wickets
at
Galle.