Amla was unfortunate to be given out - Daryl Harper rose his finger despite Pattinson's delivery looking set to miss leg stump - but the number three was delighted with how day two turned out for South Africa.
At the other end of the spectrum, the hyper-articulate, hypomanic Michel Chapoutier, who walks with a pronounced limp because he was too busy to get a broken legset some years ago, makes big, rich, heavily oak-influenced wines that can outmuscle Guigal's.