Khaya Zondo kept his cool in a difficult morning where Ollie Robinson, James Anderson and Stuart Broad took six wickets to leave the Proteas in a difficult position on 69-6.

The England Cricket Board allowed the series decider to continue at The Oval as a 3-Day Test after Day One was washed out and the second day abandoned following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Proteas openers, Dean Elgar and Sarel Erwee, took to the middle with the objective of making something out of the three days left in the Test. Elgar was clean bowled in his seventh ball of the morning courtesy of a ripper from Ollie Robinson.

James Anderson accounted for Erwee in the following over. Anderson’s fourth-stump lines induced an edge from Erwee’s bat and Ben Foakes made no mistake in catching the ball behind the stumps.

Again, Keegan Petersen was free-flowing in the fourteen balls that he faced but was undone by an in-swinger from Robinson. Stuart Broad came into the attack as first change and accounted for Ryan Rickelton who looked confident in his stroke play.

The Ollie Robinson show continued as the 28-year-old dismissed Kyle Verreynne (0) and Wiaan Mulder (3) to leave South Africa on 36-6 after 11.5 overs.

Zondo and Marco Jansen put together a 33-run partnership and ensured South Africa lost no further wickets going into the lunch break.

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