Jonny Bairstow made a dashing 99 before James Anderson struck from the newly-named James Anderson End to leave England well-placed in the fourth Test against South Africa at Old Trafford on Saturday.
The Proteas were 12 for one at lunch on the second day, a deficit of 350 runs, after Bairstow’s blizzard of boundaries had taken England to a total of 362 all out in their first innings.
Anderson, England’s all-time leading wicket-taker, then needed just three balls to enjoy a success from his ‘own’ end on his Lancashire home ground when Dean Elgar, fresh from a gutsy second-innings hundred in the Proteas’ 239-run defeat in the third Test at The Oval, was lbw for a duck.
Heino Kuhn was four not out and Hashim Amla six not out at lunch, with South Africa needing to win this match to end the four-Test series all square at 2-2.
England, who’d won the toss, resumed on 260 for six after Kagiso Rabada had yorked the dangerous Ben Stokes for 58 late on Friday.