South Africa v Australia: wet outfield causing delays in second men’s cricket Test, day two – live

• Updates as the Proteas host Australia at St George’s Park

• Start to play in Gqeberha delayed by rain

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The rain radar that I can find doesn’t look promising either. Apart from depicting clouds as giant bilious green snot-chunks, which is highly unappealing, it has these chunks circling about and not moving anywhere. The main piece is off to the east of Gqeberha, but the smaller part over the town is largely static both in the prior tracking and the projection, just shifting in small circles.

A bit of a dance went on with the covers, where they came off, umpires talked about an inspection, then the covers went on again. A tale as old as time.

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