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Jonathan Agnew

First day to the hosts (0)

The opening day of this much-anticipated England - South Africa series lived up to its billing in every way.

Hard-fought and determined cricket from both sides produced a day which ended with England comfortably ahead on points having been put into bat on a pitch that had been sweating under the covers for two days.

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Oliver Brett - BBC Sport journalist

South African quicks fail to live up to the hype (0)

Like a Hollywood blockbuster that flops at the box office, South Africa's much vaunted high-velocity pace attack was unable to live up to the hype as the Lord's Test began on Thursday.

All the preamble had billed the tourists as the team with the aces, whose coach Mickey Arthur had gone so far as to imagine a future where his two younger quicks, Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, would one day be the best two bowlers in the world.

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