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England have won the toss and will bat first in the third Test against South Africa at Edgbaston.

The home side have left out Steve Harmison and Stuart Broad and recalled Paul Collingwood and Ryan Sidebottom.

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1100 - 1-0 It's the rangy Morkel to have first go with the ball for South Africa, and his first delivery curves away from the left-handed Strauss outside off-stump. Morkel sends one wide down the leg-side and Boucher can only deflect it away - England are off the mark with a bye. Cook nibbles at one outside off and he has another prod at the final ball of the over - Morkel thinks about having an appeal, but that was nowhere near the bat.
1057: No Dale Steyn for South Africa today, so we'll have Andre 'Gunther' Nel instead. Tom Fordyce spoke to him recently - what a weirdo. Gunther, not Andre...here's Jerusalem, and players are out in the middle.
Cricket's craziest man

1049: I've just been told about a little spat between Aggers and Vaughan on the wireless last night. Apparently Vaughany got very precious and started having a go at Aggers about his Test record - I'll stick a link in when Vaughan trots out to bat, sounds tasty. The Pattinson farce rolls on: apparently he's now realised he can't play for his home state Victoria - because he's English! So now he's having a meeting with Geoff Miller to see if he can be cleansed of his Englishness. Odd.

"All this talk of Pattison's non-selection is nonsense. He is simply fixing the hole in my roof after Monday nights storm. He should be available for The Oval, weather permitting."
Peter Sowerby in the TMS inbox

"Call me cynical but could Colly's re-selection be anything to do with the fact that MV does not want to upset the Twenty20 skipper ahead of the multi-million dollar Caribbean selection process - interesting that Vaughny now 'quite likes the idea of Twenty20 cricket..."
Paul Taylor in the TMS inbox

"It's all a bit matey isn't it - still, Colly getting back because he's best buds with the skipper isn't that bad. Whilst playing for the Great Britain Students American Football team, one guy got selected on the back of his parent's ability to buy 50 sets of playing jerseys. I'm watching your live commentry in a college devoid of students - don't worry, I've not broken in - I work here. It's very boring..."
Scorchio, Nottingham, in the TMS inbox

1033: England skipper Michael Vaughan has won the toss and he's decided to have a bat. Good news for those of you with sore forefingers: we are trialling a new auto-refresh thingy today, which means you no longer have to jab at the F5 key all day. On the down side, I'm bound to nause it up at some point today meaning the whole page will crash. Sorry in advance.

1030: Oh my days, what a pickle England have got themselves into before this crucial third Test in Birmingham. New Kid's out on his ear because he upset 'team unity' (is the England dressing room actually some delicate eco-system?) and Colly's back in on the back of a few runs in a Twenty20 knockabout. If I was Owais Shah or Ravi Bopara, not only would I be a different colour, I'd be a little bit irritated as well.

It's all so chummy, I wouldn't be surprised if the England team all bundled round Vaughany's mum and dad's house for a pyjama party after today's play. Maybe Colly's back in the side because he can get his hands on Porky's?

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