England vs South Africa 2017, 4th Test: Day 2, 5 talking points

#2 Anderson turns the game on its head with double strike

James Anderson picked out Temba Bavuma and Faf du Plessis in the same over

Jimmy Anderson, Jimmy Anderson, Jimmy Anderson!

He has magic in his wrists and wields the red cherry like a wand in front of hapless, clueless, helpless batsmen. The usually stable Dean Elgar had no clue to a perfect Anderson inswinger in the third ball of the innings. But Anderson was just warming up for something special.

One could sense it. The ground had a stand named after him and he was running in from that end. Something is bound to happen on such wickets when James Anderson runs in. Yes, he had nipped out the gutsy Dean Elgar early on, but surely that wasn't the only Anderson special of the day.

He returned to the attack with Bavuma and Faf du Plessis resurrecting the innings after Amla's dismissal and produced a sensational over. He first had Temba Bavuma, solid in defence and mindset, leaving a straight ball, much akin to his skipper at the other end in the previous Test, that clattered onto the stumps. The captain himself followed two balls later, inside edging Anderson to the wicket to further slump South Africa's innings.

Anderson went on to put a master class of swing bowling, troubling de Kock and de Bruyn with his craft, eventually getting rid of the latter soon enough.