Kevin Pietersen shifted the momentum of the second test, and just possibly the entire series, with perhaps the best innings of a brilliant career at Headingley yesterday
His flamboyant caning of his native South Africa for 149 not out means England go into the fourth day today with ambitions extending beyond the draw that previously looked their limit.
England closed on 351 for 5, 68 behind South Africa's first-innings total and hoping a miserable weather forecast proves wrong, while South African morale was not boosted by the sight of skipper Graeme Smith limping off injured towards the close.
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