Cricket: Centurion Paul Collingwood was last man out as England set South Africa 281 to win the third npower Test at Edgbaston.
Collingwood, whose innings has surely prolonged his Test career, fell for 135 in England's second-innings total of 363.
His dismissal, caught behind attempting to cut Morne Morkel, was the third of three to fall for one run to culminate the innings.
That left South Africa with 20 minutes to occupy before lunch and they reached the interval on 11 without loss.
It was a 65-run partnership between Collingwood and Ryan Sidebottom for the eighth wicket which was key to England giving themselves a fighting chance of levelling the npower series.
But it included further controversy over a disputed catch as Sidebottom, on 14, survived a referral to third umpire Ian Gould.
Jacques Kallis found the outside edge and AB de Villiers pouched the catch at second slip only for Sidebottom to stand his ground for clarification.
Once again television replays did not prove conclusive as the ball was taken narrowly above the turf.
But Sidebottom added only a further eight runs via two glorious driven boundaries before popping up a catch to short leg from a Morkel short ball.
All-rounder Kallis then followed up in the next over, the 98th of the innings, by bowling James Anderson off the inside edge.
Earlier Collingwood shrugged off the loss of overnight partner Tim Ambrose.
The Durham all-rounder ended a year of frustration with a defiant hundred yesterday to help England resume the fourth day 214 runs ahead on 297 for six.
The immediate setback of losing wicketkeeper Ambrose, who had helped Collingwood forge a crucial 76-run partnership last night, came from the second ball of the day when fast bowler Morkel knocked back his off stump after taking the new ball before the start of play.
Ambrose had nearly been joined back in the dressing room by Collingwood, who resumed overnight on 101, four overs later when he was given a major reprieve after adding only two runs to his overnight total.
Shuffling across his stumps to try to hit Morkel through the vacant mid-wicket region, Collingwood was struck on the pads but the appeal was denied by umpire Steve Davis despite television replays verifying the validity of the shout.
Collingwood was determined to exploit his reprieve and pulled the first boundary of the day two balls later and produced the same shot in the next over from Makhaya Ntini.
He was also successful in marshalling the strike to protect Sidebottom, who faced only five deliveries in his first five overs as England continued to frustrate the tourists.
The tactic appeared to be working with Collingwood hitting Ntini for successive boundaries and when Sidebottom was hit by a short delivery from Andre Nel, he reacted equally aggressively.
Sidebottom claimed his first boundary with a pull for four off Nel, having spent 28 deliveries over his first run, and then guided through gully for another boundary off the next ball.