World Test final: SA 94-2 at tea chasing 282 to beat Australia

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Update:
Date: 15:26 BST
Title: Post
Content: However, Aiden Markram could steal Starc's thunder.
The South Africa opener is 49 not out (66) and his side need 188 runs to be crowned World Test Championship with eight wickets (and more than two days) in hand.
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Markram hits Hazlewood for four
Update:
Date: 15:24 BST
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Content: Mitchell Starc enjoyed himself with the bat earlier today, scoring an unbeaten 58 (136) as Australia advanced from 144-8 overnight to 207.
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Best shots from Starc's half-century against South Africa
Update:
Date: 15:22 BST
Title: Post
Content: Australia picked up two wickets during the afternoon session.
Mitchell Starc had Ryan Rickelton caught behind by Alex Carey and Wiaan Mulder caught by Marnus Labuschagne.
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Rickelton caught at slip off Starc
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Mulder is caughy by Labuschagne off the bowling of Cummins
Update:
Date: 15:20 BST
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Content: Thanks Mike.
Good luck on your hunt for sweets. I fear you might be disappointed. All I can see is a booklet of post-it notes.
Update:
Date: 15:18 BST
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Content: A decent session for South Africa on balance, they require 188 runs for victory.
Time for the players to take some tea, time for me to see if the tennis team left any sweets hidden behind the back of their monitors.
I'll hand you over to Elizabeth Botcherby.
Update:
Date: 24 overs
Title: Tea - SA 94-2
Content: Markram 49, Bavuma 11
Mitchell Starc to bowl the last over before tea.
Temba Bavuma opens the face and guides him for a single through backward point, hobbling to the non-striker's end.
I think it is a hamstring issue - imagine me running at Sharpham Estate parkrun on New Year's Day 2023 (sorry if you weren't there, alas you won't have another frame of reference).
Three more singles, the last of which takes Aiden Markram to 49 going into the interval.
Update:
Date: 15:12 BST
Title: Post
Content: Jim MaxwellBBC Test Match Special commentator at Lord's
Lyon's doing his usual job, accurate and holding the game together but he hasn't picked up any wickets.
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Date: 15:11 BST
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Is Markram the first palindromically named player to open the batting at Lord's?
Mike Hart
Update:
Date: 23 overs
Title: SA 90-2
Content: We're OK to continue seemingly, and Nathan Lyon sends down a maiden, bowling to Aiden Markam.
Update:
Date: 15:09 BST
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Content: Jim MaxwellBBC Test Match Special commentator at Lord's
It only take a partnership or two and they could come back tomorrow and knock off 50 with another six wickets left
Update:
Date: 22 overs
Title: SA 90-2
Content: Hmm, end of Mitchell Starc's over (five from it) and I'm not sure what's going on here.
Temba Bavuma is on the floor, pads and trousers off (he's wearing long shorts underneath - fear not, modesty fans), and the physios seem to be working on his hamstrings.
Meanwhile an Australian player is getting a massage on the boundary - Lord's is turning into a giant spa.
Update:
Date: 14:58 BST
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Balance between bat and ball is perfect - makes for an exciting Test match.
Ben, Dorset
Can I just say how nice it is to sit and watch a proper Test match in England as a neutral. The tension is usually crushing, but this is a smashing afternoon's viewing!
Mark, York
Update:
Date: 21 overs
Title: SA 85-2
Content: 197 more runs needed
Three for Temba Bavuma, edging Nathan Lyon past the slips.
Usman Khawaja chases the ball down - meanwhile South Africa now need less than 200 as the over goes for five.
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Date: 14:51 BST
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This Test match is so enthralling. I'm supposed to be going for a run but I'm glued to my TV!
Steve, Staplehurst
Update:
Date: 20 overs
Title: SA 80-2
Content: A quieter remainder of the over, with the South African batters working Mitchell Starc around for four more runs.
By the way, from the ball prior to that drop, Markram skewed a shot aerially, but it dropped a little way short of the point fielder.
Meanwhile Sam Konstas is on for Steve Smith, who went off injured after dropping Temba Bavuma at slip.
Update:
Date: 14:48 BST
Title: Post
Content: Sir Alastair CookEx-England captain on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
He was trying to push it leg-side and that generated even more pace.
Update:
Date: 19.2 overs
Title: Bavuma dropped on two
Content: SA 76-2
Put down!
A short delivery from Mitchell Starc, angling into the body, which Temba Bavuma tries to drop into the leg side.
The ball takes a leading edge and skews into the slips, where it's put down by Steve Smith under the helmet.
Smith looks in considerable pain and heads off the field immediately - I'm not quite sure if it's his finger or his shoulder, which he's injured and has had surgery on previously.
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Smith injures finger as he drops Bavuma
Update:
Date: 14:44 BST
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South Africa have now got the runs they shouldn't have let the Aussie tail get.
Matt, as neutral as an England fan can be when the Aussies are playing, London
Update:
Date: 14:44 BST
Title: Post
Content: Sir Alastair CookEx-England captain on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
This is such an important half an hour before tea, you don't want to lose wickets and the feel like you're two wickets behind
Update:
Date: 19 overs
Title: SA 75-2
Content: Aiden Markram takes three off the first ball of Nathan Lyon's over, cutting a short ball through point.
Bavuma faces the remaining five, and edges past his leg stump with a big waft.