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6.38PM - SA 101-3 (29 overs) - Ashwell Prince works both bowlers off his pads for boundaries and that's stumps after an eventful day. Join us tomorrow for more.SCORECARD | MATCH GALLERY     6.15PM - SA 82-3 (25 overs) - WICKET! More success for England late in the day as Kallis chops Anderson onto his stumps....More

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18 1/2 months, one pedalo, two ankle operations and a side strain since his last Test appearance, Andrew Flintoff is set to make his return to England's side at Headingley on Friday. "There's a bit of X-factor about him," said captain Michael Vaughan about Freddie's return. Well it's mainly been...More

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South Africa 242-1: STUMPS The new ball is gradually losing its shine - and with it goes interest in today's action. Nothing more to tell you about as the day's play comes to a close with South Africa on 242-1, a grand total of 104 runs behind England. It certainly...More

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4.50PM - SA 392-3 dec (167 overs) - Pietersen and Cook have an over of off-spin each, SA declare and that is it. A farcical end to proceedings. IT'S A DRAW. Stay tuned for the naming of the squad for Headingley and we'll back tomorrow for the fall-out before our steam train...More

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18.58 - South Africa 13-0 CLOSE OF PLAY. Pietersen sends down the last over to Smith, who negotiates it safely enough. England's day, without question - although they face another long day in the field tomorrow. 18.56 - South Africa 6-0 - Pietersen bowls the second over, beating the outside edge of...More

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6.15PM - South Africa 7-0 (3.2 overs) - Neil McKenzie drives Sidebottom through the covers for four and then the rain returns. That is the end of it which is excellent news for soothsayer mike_kipling. But it's been Ian Bell's day - see you tomorrow.SCORECARD | MATCH GALLERY   6PM - South...More

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So the Test series between England and South Africa is nearly upon us.The battle to become the second best team in the world and inevitably still get thrashed by Australia. Maybe the guy on the tannoy at Lord's tomorrow will take a leaf from the Simpsons episode when the announcer...More

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6.30PM - England 309-3 (90 overs) - Bell flicks Ntini down to fine leg and that's stumps. He finishes unbeaten on 75 while Pietersen will resume on 104 after an unbroken 192-run stand.The book goes to the_kop2003 who will need to send his address (again) to cow.corner@yahoo.co.uk . Join us at 10.30am...More

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Why does English Cricket hate the general public? Haven't the general public always been good to English Cricket?Now, Cowers hates the general public, but does so for good reason. Cowers hates the general public with just cause: because they walk slowly; drive badly; buy novelty ring-tones for their mobiles; they...More

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Cricketers don't really get the idea of the pre-match platitude, do they? The days leading up to a Test are surely a time for talking earnestly about taking each game as it comes,and how confident your team is.Particularly if you play South Africa, a team responsible for more chokes than...More

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