Anderson took 3 for 34 to help salvage the second Test for England after Friday’s poor batting performance MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERSAfter the nature of England’s defeat in Centurion, and the flak directed at their wayward seam attack, it was always likely that there would be a response from their pair of ageing champions: Stuart Broad and James Anderson. For much of the day they looked like their old selves: energetic, engaged and irascible in their pursuit of wickets. They did not waste many deliveries. It was like the good old days — and, by no coincidence, England’s best day of the series. When they punched three early holes in the South Africa innings — Broad with two wickets, Anderson one — England’s first-innings score of 269 suddenly took on a more imposing aspect.

Source: The Times January 04, 2020 18:00 UTC