South Africa have lost only one wicket in a shortened opening session of the second Test against England at Trent Bridge.
England had an opportunity to make early inroads after Faf du Plessis took a calculated gamble to bat first on a cloudy and blustery Friday morning in Nottingham.
It paid off to the tune of 56 for the loss of only Dean Elgar, dismissed by seamer James Anderson. Fellow opener Heino Kuhn, in just his second Test at the age of 33, dug in alongside Hashim Amla to make it marginally South Africa's morning.
The Proteas are trying to fight back after their big loss in the first match of four at Lord's.
At the ground where Stuart Broad's finest performance almost single-handedly bowled Australia out for 60 before lunch two years ago, they had to work a little harder this time - albeit in favourable conditions as cloud cover became more menacing and the floodlights were soon in use.
Elgar's battle lasted nine overs, as the ball moved around occasionally off the pitch, and had brought him just six runs when he decided to go after a full delivery from Anderson.
The left-hander drove too close to point, where Liam Dawson pulled off a fine catch diving two-handed to his right.
Kuhn was already in the wars, needing treatment to his right index finger after pushing forward to one that lifted from Broad, and was then hit on the helmet trying to hook first-change bowler Mark Wood in his opening over from the pavilion end.
But he and Amla gradually found a foothold, without significant alarm and picking off the scoring and boundary options either side of a squally shower which took 20 minutes out of a hard-fought session.
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