Summary

  • Third Test, day one, Rawalpindi - England win toss & bat

  • Series level at 1-1

  • Pakistan close on 73-3, trailing by 194

  • Bashir, Leach and Atkinson strike in final session

  • England 267: Smith 89, Duckett 52; Sajid 6-128

Live Reporting

by Sam Drury & Matthew Henry

  1. wicket

    WICKET

    Ahmed b Sajid 9 (Eng 258-9)

    And now Rehan Ahmed is out. He skips down the pitch again but gets nowhere near it and is bowled through the gate.

    Sajid Khan's eyes pop as he roars in delight. He has five wickets to his name.

  2. Eng 258-8

    Rehan Ahmed is going to attack. He drills Sajid Khan back down the ground for four.

  3. Eng 254-8

    Ahmed 5, Leach 10

    There has been some recounting done during the tea interval. England and Jamie Smith have had two runs taken from their total after a shot originally given as six was shown to only be a four.

    It means Smith's score has been knocked down to 89 from 91.

  4. Not out

    The TV umpire doesn't even need a look at Ultra-edge.

  5. Rehan has smashed this with his bat...

  6. Pakistan review

    After the loudest and most enthusiastic of appeals against Rehan Ahmed, umpire Chris Gaffaney shakes his head.

    Pakistan, however, want another look.

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

    Pakistan have bowled well, you do sometimes come out at the break with new batters and expect to continue rolling through them.

  8. Annnd, you guessed it, it's Sajid Khan from the other end.

  9. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    At least England picked it up this afternoon, the morning session was poor.

  10. Eng 245-8

    Rehan Ahmed was the surprise winner of England's six-hitting contest at training yesterday. Noman Ali seems to be aware of that because he's lobbing the ball right up and trying to tempt England's leg-spinner into a big whack.

    He does go after one in this opening over but it is hit safely for one through the covers.

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    Magnificent innings from Jamie Smith in the circumstances. Some of our senior players should be taking a look at themselves.

    Adam, Oxford

  12. Surprise surprise.

    Noman Ali is going to start off after tea.

  13. 'Our roadmap of where we will take cricket'

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    On the Inspiring Generations strategy, ECB chief executive Richard Gould said: “Today’s announcements are the roadmap for where we will take cricket over the course of the next four years.

    "The delivery of our strategy and positive change in the sport is the responsibility of all of us, led by the ECB to set out how this change will happen.

    “I am fortunate that I get to spend a lot of time in counties and clubs across England and Wales and I have no doubt that everyone in the game, including our charity and commercial partners, and players and volunteers at all levels of the sport, are supportive of this ongoing change.”

  14. Training up school teachers among ECB's plans for future

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    This week the ECB have announced updates to its Inspiring Generations strategy - its plan for growing the game and increasing participation in diverse communities.

    Among other things it hopes to increase the number of people playing, watching, attending or following cricket online to 14m per year, grow the number of children playing cricket by 10%, improve diversity in the game and support "18 financially sustainable counties".

    One of the key plans is to boost participation in state schools by training hundreds of teachers. The aim is to provide free cricket for 3.5m children in state primary schools over the next six years.

    The ECB also plays to invest £3.5m into the most ethnically diverse areas of England and Wales, supporting 70 players a year through our partnership with the South Asian Cricket Academy, engage 21,000 young people over the next three years through the African Caribbean Engagement (ACE) programme and train 2,000 staff across cricket in inclusion and tackling discrimination.

  15. Dan lives in Yorkshire. I live in Yorkshire and my drive needs weeding.

    Anyone want to make any better suggestions?

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    Can we collate a list of outside jobs for Dan please?

    Mike, Eastbourne

  17. How's stat?!

    Soham Sarkhel
    CricViz analyst

    PitchViz rating (the higher the number, the harder it is to bat):

    • Overs 1-10: 4.0
    • Overs 11-20: 7.0
    • Overs 21-30: 8.0
    • Overs 31-40: 8.4
    • Overs 41-50: 6.9
    • Overs 51-60: 6.7

    Average deviation

    • Overs 1-40: 3.98 degrees
    • Overs 41-60: 4.87 degrees

    In terms of bounce inconsistency (the higher the number, the more uneven the bounce)

    • Overs 1-10: 1.5
    • Overs 11-20: 4.1
    • Overs 21-30: 7.4
    • Overs 31-40: 6.8
    • Overs 41-50: 4.3
    • Overs 51-60: 3.8

  18. Thanks Sam.

    If you want my opinion, a little while ago I said to my colleague 300 would be a very good score and 240 would be about par.

  19. Another hectic session as this Test continues to move on apace.

    Has that partnership between Jamie Smith and Gus Atkinson taken England to a competitive total on this surface or do they still need a few more?

    At this stage, I really couldn't say, so I think it's time to bring back Matthew Henry.

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

    I think both teams will go into tea content.