Kagiso Rabada has been suspended from next week’s second Test with England at Trent Bridge after being charged for the use of abusive language towards Ben Stokes on the opening day of the current Lord’s Test.

The South African fast bowler told Stokes to “fuck off” after removing the all-rounder caught behind for 56 in England’s first innings and was reported to the International Cricket Council match referee, Jeff Crowe, by the on-field umpires. With the words picked up by the stump microphones, the level one charge was accepted by the 22-year-old on Friday.

This led to Rabada being fined 15% of his match fee and given one demerit point on his disciplinary record. But with three points there already for “inappropriate and deliberate physical contact” with Sri Lanka’s Niroshan Dickwella during a one-day international in February, a one match suspension was automatically triggered.

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Bad blood between Rabada and Stokes surfaced during England’s 2-1 series win in South Africa in early 2016, with this new episode providing a late twist to events on the second day at Lord’s where Joe Root’s side took control of proceedings, posting 458 with the bat before reducing the tourists to 214 for five by the close.

It was a day that was savoured by Moeen Ali in particular, as he became the second fastest England all-rounder to reach 2,000 runs and 100 wickets, in his 38th Test match – one more than it took Tony Greig to complete this double in 1975 – and the seventh overall, as well as the fifth quickest in world cricket.

Moeen became the second cricketer after Ravi Shastri to achieve both parts of the feat in the same Test, first in his 87 with the bat before claiming two for 35 with his off-breaks including the prized scalp of Hashim Amla. He admitted after stumps that he has surpassed his own expectations, not least with the ball given he still considers himself to be “learning on the job”.

Asked how he felt to reach the mark quicker than a player such as the West Indies great, Sir Garfield Sobers, who took 48 Tests, Moeen jokingly replied: “In my garden I was better than Sobers! I’m just pleased to have played so many Tests. I’m much happier with my bowling stats – I would never have thought I’d have 100 Test wickets.

“I feel like a big part of the team. I know I’m a bit inconsistent. Root wants me to attack a bit more as a bowler and almost a mind-set change. He wants me to take wickets and not worry too much about runs. That’s exactly how I used to think when I first came in the side. I used to try and take wickets and not bowl safe.”

It perhaps should not take this particular statistic to bring Moeen’s value to the Test side into sharp focus – not least with the bat. His four centuries last year were the most by an England batsman while since his debut against Sri Lanka in 2014 he has selflessly batted everywhere from one to nine, never once uttering a peep of disgruntlement either on or off the record.

The decision to keep Jonny Bairstow at No5, having finished the India tour there, was in part down to the selectors finally agreeing that Moeen’s languid cover drives are best unfurled from No7 – the position that once prompted his father, Munir, to withdraw him from a club match at Moseley Ashfield aged 13 in protest.

At Test level coming in at seven is working out rather nicely for the 30-year-old, however, producing three of his five Test centuries as well as an average of 87.75 from 11 innings. This figure was touching 99 on the second morning at Lord’s before Rabada got one to jag down the slope from the Nursery End and rattle the off stump.

Sitting in seventh place in the “fastest 2,000 plus 100” list of England all-rounders – although perhaps having not quite lived up to that tag since his 169 against Pakistan at Lord’s in 2010 – is Stuart Broad, who made merry in the morning with his first half-century in four years, an unbeaten 57 that drove South Africa to distraction.

Broad made little secret of the effect that having his nose rearranged by India’s Varun Aaron in 2014 had on his batting but has worked hard in the nets at Nottinghamshire with the former England coach Peter Moores over the past two years – particularly on his footwork – in order to contribute more from his now favoured berth as a chancy No9.

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This summer he has already returned two half-centuries in the County Championship and while there was some fortune here at Lord’s – why the tourists did not review the turning down of an lbw shout from Vernon Philander when the left-hander was on four was baffling – the havoc Broad caused will perhaps soothe the aching shoulder of Moores a touch more.

While Stokes will doubtless be the eighth past the mark before time – he has 1,958 runs and 79 wickets from his 33 caps – another who may fancy a dart at it in time is Chris Woakes, who has now tentatively begun some bowling again after the side-strain that ruined his Champions Trophy after two overs and is now forcing him to miss the first half of this series.