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Amla, de Villiers steer South Africa response

ESPNcricinfo staff
AB de Villiers became the third South African to pass 8,000 Test runs ...  AFP
... while Hashim Amla notched 7,000 en route to his first century in 13 months  AFP
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Steven Finn bowled a fiery but unrewarded morning spell  AFP
South Africa's senior batsmen stood firm to post the team's first hundred stand since 2014  AFP
James Anderson at slip shelled the only chance of the morning, when Amla had made 76  AFP
England successfully lobbied for a ball change but to no avail  AFP
Amla brought up his hundred in the first over after lunch  AFP
Finn was rewarded for his perseverance with the wicket of de Villiers ...  AFP
... Anderson caught him at midwicket for 88 to end a third-wicket stand of 183  AFP
But breakthroughs were thin on the ground, as England searched for direction  Getty Images
Amla was unruffled as he breezed along to his 150  AFP
Faf du Plessis scored his first half-century for 12 months to cement South Africa's fightback  AFP
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