England search for further breakthroughs

England had managed just three wickets by mid-afternoon at Centurion, on day one of their four-Test series against South Africa.

After the near immediate and runless departure of captain Graeme Smith to Stuart Broad, England had to work hard for two further gains as South Africa reached 131 for three.

To do so, the hosts needed a successful first recourse in this series to the decision review system - Ashwell Prince the man to benefit on 19 when Steve Davis overturned his own lbw verdict.

Prince survived to make 45, and England were struggling for vindication of their decision to bowl first in glorious sunshine but on a pitch still displaying the green patches which had startled so many on Tuesday.

It seemed there must surely be some early help for England's three-man pace attack - and Broad duly had the key wicket of Smith with only his third delivery, in the second over of the match.

He pushed a short ball down the leg side, but a little extra bounce saw Smith glove behind for a diving Matt Prior to take an athletic catch.

Broad also troubled Smith's fellow opener Prince with another short ball which leapt to hit the left-hander on the chest on its way for four leg-byes.

Broad was getting the most from the pitch - albeit not always from the most advantageous areas - and he had Prince mis-hooking only for the ball to drop well short of Graham Onions at long-leg.

Onions himself thought he had a second wicket when he hit Prince on the back foot and initially won the lbw call, but then Davis ruled in the batsman's favour after all, once a third-umpire review indicated the ball was easily clearing the stumps.

Onions had his head in his hands again when Hashim Amla brought up the home 50 by edging a boundary just high and wide of third slip, but the England seamer was celebrating seconds later after Amla edged the very next ball low to second slip, where Paul Collingwood took a neat catch to bring Jacques Kallis to the crease.