Change of bowling: Boland replaces Neser. Root has fallen to Boland four times in Tests. After slapping a back cut along the ground to a fielder, Root is given one pitched further up and French/Harrow drives it off the inside edge for a single to long leg. It’s heart in mouth all the way for England. Crawley ends the over with a nice, firm push square through the offside. Both batsmen are batting out of their crease to Boland suggesting, as Matt Prior points out, that the ball isn’t coming on as much as they think it should on the pitch.
Starc is staying on for a fifth over, which is the most he had to bowl in a spell in the opening Test.
