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Tanya Aldred (earlier) and James Wallace (now)

England close to winning third Test and series against South Africa, day four – as it happened

England's Zak Crawley on his way to a half century.
England's Zak Crawley on his way to a half century. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Here is Ali Martin’s report from the Oval.

England need 33 runs to win the series 2-1

There’ll be plenty of debate well after darkness has fully descended but the facts are that England will be back tomorrow to knock off the runs required to take the series. Almighty storm and mind-boggling South African comeback notwithstanding.

That’s me done for the day, thanks as ever for your comments and tweets, sorry I couldn’t get to them all. It turned out to be a frenetic afternoon, any danger of that ‘power-snooze™’ was wiped out almost as soon as the wickets started to tumble.

Ali Martin’s report on a jam-packed day will be along toot suite.

Enjoy the evening, goodnight.

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