Amla, de Villiers steer South Africa response

ESPNcricinfo staff04-Jan-2016… while Hashim Amla notched 7,000 en route to his first century in 13 months•AFPSteven Finn bowled a fiery but unrewarded morning spell•AFPSouth Africa’s senior batsmen stood firm to post the team’s first hundred stand since 2014•AFPJames Anderson at slip shelled the only chance of the morning, when Amla had made 76•AFPEngland successfully lobbied for a ball change but to no avail•AFPAmla brought up his hundred in the first over after lunch•AFPFinn 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•AFPBut breakthroughs were thin on the ground, as England searched for direction•Getty ImagesAmla was unruffled as he breezed along to his 150•AFPFaf du Plessis scored his first half-century for 12 months to cement South Africa’s fightback•AFP