Summary

  • England reach 96-1 at stumps in reply to Pakistan's 556 all out

  • Zak Crawley unbeaten on 64 and Joe Root on 32

  • Root needs 39 more runs to become England's all-time leading Test run-scorer

  • Ollie Pope superbly caught at mid-wicket for two-ball duck to leave England 4-1

  • Pope was promoted to opener after Ben Duckett takes blow to left thumb while taking catch

  • England hope Duckett's injury will settle down overnight and no scan is planned currently

  • First Test, day two, Multan

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Live Reporting

Matthew Henry

  1. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Just looking at Brydon Carse's body language, he looks quite tired. He's had to work hard in his debut Test.

  2. Pak 474-8

    Is Peter saying he's in a powercut in Durham or in a place called Powercut?

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    Dare I say, sub 500 looks like a good bowling effort from England. Proper Test match and proper Test score. Let's hope the batters can be patient when they get in!

    Peter in Powercut Durham

  4. Pak 472-8

    Shoaib Bashir bowlsGetty Images

    Oooo...

    More turn for Shoaib Bashir to beat the edge of Shaheen Afridi. There are just a couple of signs of this pitch starting to get more difficult to bat on.

    As I write that, Salman Ali Agha drives Bashir for four.

  5. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Statistician on Test Match Special

    Shoaib Bashir had to wait until his 25th over to pick his first wicket. Only once has an England bowler needed to bowl more wicketless balls at the start of an innings in their last 17 Tests since the start of the 2023 summer - Tom Hartley who took a wicket in his 32nd over in Dharamshala.

    The all-time England record for most balls before taking a wicket in a Test innings is 441 balls needed by Hedley Verity in Durban in March 1939.

  6. Pak 464-8

    Salman 41, Shaheen 0

    I said Shaheen likes to give it a biff and he tries to hit his first ball all of the way to Islamabad.

    On second look that dismissal was not a great shot from Aamir Jamal.

  7. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    England bowlers will want to keep the ball rolling, but that was the sort of wicket that can have their batting unit worried with Pakistan 464-8.

  8. Shaheen Afridi can bash them. He has emerged at number 10 for Pakistan.

  9. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Multan

    England have taken 4-76, starting with the Naseem Shah wicket. On this pitch, with the effort they have had to put in over the past day-and-a-half, that really should be commended.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Jamal lbw b Carse 7 (Pak 464-8)

    Brydon Carse appealsGetty Images

    Umpire's call on the top of the stumps. This marginal call goes in England's favour.

    It was back-of-a-length from Brydon Carse but the ball has skidded on to hit Aamir Jamal on the back thigh as he swung across the line.

    A worrying sign for them going forward but England won't worry about that for now.

  11. This has hit above the pad...

  12. Pakistan review

    Up goes the finger! Aamir Jamal is hit by one that keeps low from Brydon Carse.

    It took a long time for the umpire to give it out...

  13. Pak 460-7

    That suggests slow is the way to go and Bashir loops the final ball of his latest over up to Salman Ali Agha but there is no such sharp turn. That delivery continues to be the outlier which is both bad and good news for England.

  14. How's stat?!

    Soham Sarkhel
    CricViz analyst

    Shoaib Bashir’s wicket delivery turned 5.7 degrees off the pitch, that is the most turn any spinner has generated in this Test match so far.

    It was also a clever change of pace compared to the previous deliveries he bowled to Saud Shakeel in the spell.

    Bashir averaged 89.4 kph (55.6 mph) before the dismissal ball, which was easily the slowest delivery of his spell to Shakeel at 82.4 kph (51.2 mph).

  15. Pak 458-7

    Salman 39, Jamal 3

    I do hope Sir Alastair is following while sheering the sheep.

    Brydon Carse gets nothing from the middle of this lifeless pitch as he bangs it in short again.

  16. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    There's two people in the world who will be looking at the second innings with particular interest - one is a colleague of ours, Sir Alastair Cook, and the other, Joe Root, who is only 70 runs behind and will be looking at the prospect of going past Sir Alastair as England's leading run-scorer in Tests.

  17. Brydon Carse, England's quickest bowler, is back to try and get the wicket of Aamir Jamal.

  18. Pak 453-7

    Aamir Jamal, who scored 82 against Australia in Sydney in his debut series, is immediately off the mark.

    How England would love to knock these last few over quickly.

  19. Ramiz Raja
    Former Pakistan captain on Test Match Special on BBC Sounds

    Saud Shakeel had gone absolutely dead at the crease unfortunately. The delivery bounced a little bit as well and it's a great catch from Joe Root because at this stage, you can be a little sleepy at the slips.

  20. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    It's a classic piece of off-spin bowling from around the wicket to a left-hander. That's a beautiful piece of bowling from Shoaib Bashir!