MONDAY, 6.30PM:
ENGLAND are fighting back fiercely in the face of a renewed South African onslaught on the final day of the third cricket Test at Old Trafford on Monday.
English skipper Alec Stewart, who played a remarkable innings up to lunch, was eventually dismissed for 164 superbly played runs. Stewart was caught by Lance Klusener off the bowling of Donald.
Stewart’s dismissal saw the English middle-order collapse somewhat, with four wickets falling for only 33 runs.
Graham Thorpe and Dominic Cork crashed out for only one run between them, Thorpe’s woes continuing as he was clean bowled by Allan Donald for a duck, and Cork taking a walk for one after being bamboozled by a Paul Adams delivery.
Ashley Giles was next to go, beautifully caught by Brian McMillan at slip off the bowling of Allan Donald. The safest hands in the business made no mistake sending Giles trudging back to the pavilion for only one run.
Robert Croft and Darren Gough are trying to keep the English ship afloat against the South African attack, which has suffered in the absence of Shaun Pollock and Lance Klusener.
England second innings — (211/2 overnight):
N Knight c Boucher b Donald 1 (20m 20b)
M Atherton c Ntini b Kallis 89 (376m 280b 13×4)
N Hussain b Kallis 5 (28m 24b 1×4)
A Stewart c Klusener b Donald 164 (422m 317b 24×4)
M Ramprakash lbw b Donald 34 (183m 149b 2×4)
G Thorpe b Donald 0 (6m 3b)
D Cork b Adams 1 (6m 6b)
R Croft not out 20 (68m 80b 2×4)
A Giles c sub McMillan b Donald 1 (15b 0 0)
D Gough not out 6 (41 0 0)
Extras (20b 2lb 1nb 2w) 25
Total (for 8 wkts) 346 — 155 overs,
Fall of wickets: 1/4 2/11 3/237 4/293 5/293 6/296 7/323 8/329
Bowling: Donald 35-12-80-5, Kallis 39-18-71-2 (1nb 1w), Ntini 24-10-60-0, Adams 48-20-82-1, Klusener 3-0-15-0, Cronje 6-3-15-0, Cullinan 1,0,2,0