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TL;DR: South Africa in lead after hard-fought day

March 10, 2018 21:16·
South Africa vs Australia 2nd Test Day 2 Live score Dean Elgar is on 11 at the start of Day 2

South Africa vs Australia 2nd Test Day 2 Live score Dean Elgar is on 11 at the start of Day 2

However, the action was overshadowed by events away from the pitch, including Cricket South Africa issuing an apology to Cricket Australia after an incident involving two of their employees being photographed with fans wearing Sonny Bill Williams masks in an apparent attempt to embarrass David Warner. We felt close to wickets but they stuck in there.

Like all of the most compelling contests, this titanic tussle went through phases of varying pace and momentum.

Elgar and Amla played and missed regularly, desperately dug out yorkers and scampered through for risky singles, adding just 43 runs in Saturday's second session. The morning session on day three will be crucial. Mitchell Marsh joined the act when he trapped both Proteas captain Faf du Plessis and Theunis de Bruyn lbw from the Park Drive End.

Australia have already spent 66 overs in the field.

The stand was largely chanceless as well. Hashim Amla was 31 not out with Elgar having survived an lbw decision he reviewed when he was on 7.

There was a farcical episode during the early part of the final session when the umpires stopped play because the music band in the stands, synonymous with playing at St George's Park, was asked to stop playing because the officials could not concentrate on the game.

"As a bowler you block out who you're bowling to but he's obviously an awesome player", Mitchell Marsh said of De Villiers, having trapped Du Plessis and De Bruyn lbw.

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Amla, normally more fluent, took 122 balls to reach fifty and by tea had faced 144 balls.

Australia otherwise battled to create opportunities to take wickets, not helped by South Africa going into their shell and playing risk-free cricket, though spinner Nathan Lyon did find good turn off the wicket and was hard to score off. His six deliveries to Elgar, from around the wicket, were a classic in the setup genre. Like Amla, Elgar fell to a full delivery which swung late.

Pat Cummins went close to dismissing De Villiers with a brute of a bouncer in the 75th over, at which point the gifted batsman was on 15 and the Proteas were 175 for four.

Naturally it was de Villiers who led the counterattack, taking 14 runs off the next over from Cummins.

De Villiers and Quinton de Kock put on 44 for the seventh wicket before De Kock was bowled by off-spinner Nathan Lyon with a ball which spun sharply past the outside edge of his bat.

Ultimately, it was left to AB de Villiers to restore some sanity with a sparkling innings whose true value could escalate as the match runs its course. But AB de Villiers continued with his fluent touch and found an able partner in Philander to prop South Africa.

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