Two wickets shortly before tea – including Rassie van der Dussen for 98 – boosted England’s push for victory in the fourth Test after a determined South African batting effort held them up on day four in Johannesburg.

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England went wicketless for much of the afternoon session, with Van der Dussen closing in on a maiden Test ton as he shared in a 92-run stand for the third wicket with Faf du Plessis (35).

But Du Plessis first departed to the golden-armed Ben Stokes (2-28), chopping one that kept low onto his stumps, as England finally began to find some variable bounce from the fourth-day surface, and then Van der Dussen hit a full ball from Mark Wood (1-34) straight to short cover as he eyed up the boundary to bring up a deserved first hundred.

Earlier, Pieter Malan (22) and Dean Elgar (24) had seen off the threat of the new ball with a watchful first hour of batting, only for Malan to edge Chris Woakes to Stokes at second slip with the first ball after the drinks break.

Woakes (1-26) thought he had a second strike in the over, with Van der Dussen given out lbw for a duck, but the decision was overturned on review, shown to be bouncing too high.

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