Harry, Edinburgh: Buttler's last chance? Big player in the one-day side but with two keepers in the starting team, is he the first to go? Terrific batsman but needs a big score. Whereas Bairstow is coming off a huge county campaign... 92 is a good average in any form!
"Yasir Shah bowled nicely, he didn't bowl long-hops or full tosses, he looks as though he knows where he's bowling, and if it looks as though it's going to turn with us bowling last, we've got problems. Tomorrow is crucial."
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Rakesh Pradhan: First time I've seen Yasir Shah. He will be dangerous second innings on this pitch.
"It's fairly even stevens as I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow. I always say 'add two wickets to the score' but Misbah got out straight away this morning and England started well. Shafiq played very well, he was the quality player for Pakistan but he couldn't get them above 378 all out. I always say Moeen Ali's an ordinary bowler, he's not Graeme Swann, but he gets wickets which is great for the lad. A wonderful gift to have. Rashid got a wicket, Wood bowled well, there was nothing wrong with England's bowling."
'The wicket is still good to bat on'
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England's Stuart Broad, speaking to Sky Sports: "Misbah played really well for his 100 yesterday. He scored 70-odd off as many balls against the spinners but was more circumspect against the fast bowlers. We had a plan to dig a few in and then pitch one up and it worked well for us.
"The bouncer can set batsmen back in their crease slightly and to some batsman it's a dot ball, if not a wicket-taking delivery. We got our rewards today for our work yesterday. Our analyst said our numbers were world-class at hitting the top of off stump yesterday.
"Our aim is to go past Pakistan and go above 400 but there's a lot of hard graft to come before then. Our spinners said it was hard to bowl with the old ball between 50 and 80 overs so we need to take advantage of that. I still think the wicket is good to bat on - even better than Abu Dhabi because the ball comes on a little quicker."
"England have to aim at getting a lead, it's a 500 pitch if you bat well. England depend too much on the captain and Joe Root, and so it proved. Moeen Ali got out straight away, they've got to know where the [short leg] fielder is. Bell's footwork was poor, he's tentative and his mind isn't there. The face of the bat is open so he's playing with half a bat and giving catching practice. I'm told since he got that hundred in Antigua he averages 19."
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Patrick Sutton in Windsor: I think Bairstow has shown all the signs of being a long-term Test match batsman. He just needs a Test match century, and now is as good a chance as any.
"We're not a great batting unit as we don't have an opening batsman to go with Cook, Moeen Ali is a round peg in a square hole there, our number three is lucky to be in the team, and Buttler hasn't got runs lately. Root and the captain played splendidly. Top batsmen. Bairstow is playing for his place, he played some nice shots but are they going to go on and get runs tomorrow or will they get out straight away like Misbah did? England will have to bat fourth so if they can't get a lead, they need parity."
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England lost opener Moeen Ali (1) and Ian Bell (4) cheaply, but Alastair Cook (65) and Joe Root (76 not out) steadied the ship and both men appeared on course for a big score until the skipper was caught at leg slip. After a shaky start, Jonny Bairstow then reached 27 not out before bad light brought an early end to the day.
"This system of having six bowlers in great heat is good as it means you don't have to over-bowl people. The pitch is starting to turn a little, and we even got a bit of a crowd in, it was a few thousand by the end after there was nobody here yesterday."
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Asad Shafiq (82) and Sarfraz Ahmed (32) put on 52 together before the latter played a horrible shot to Moeen Ali and became the first of three victims for the off-spinner. Mark Wood was the pick of the England bowlers though, taking 3-39 in 19.5 overs as Pakistan were eventually skittled for 378.
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Let's recap on the day's happenings then. Pakistan began on 282-4 but soon lost skipper Misbah following some superb bowling from Stuart Broad.
The fast bowler peppered Misbah with some short stuff, then pitched one up and pinned the skipper in front.
"Very good position for England, 196 runs behind but definitely their day. If I was bowling in this game, I'd want to be bowling from now on. It's a turning pitch, and ideally England need to be 150 past Pakistan. 450-500 would be brilliant - if they make it, they've got every chance of winning this game."
Eng 182-3
England still have lots to do but they've held their own once again today. If they bat properly tomorrow, they may even edge ahead in the game.
"This is a tactical move from Misbah-ul-Haq. He's trying to bring Imran Khan back, and the umpire's saying 'if you get the seamer on, we're going off'."
Bad light stops play - close of play
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The umpires check the light and decide it's time to call it a day. England march off at a very respectable 182-3.
Those who thought England would crumble when Cookie went were wrong. Joe Root is holding things together with 76 not out and Jonny Bairstow has chipped in with 27.
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Steve Lilley: How good is Joe Root?! On the other hand, how worrying is his back? This is becoming a regular thing...
Eng 182-3 (Root 76, Bairstow 27)
Jonny Bairstow, to his credit, looks very comfortable against Zulfiqar - the man whose bowling his fellow Yorkshireman Geoffrey Boycott compared to a carvery earlier. Maiden over easily negotiated.
"The follow-on has been avoided, which was England's first job."
Eng 182-3 (trail by 196)
This is turning into an excellent partnership which has kept Pakistan at bay - Joe Root sweeping Yasir Shah for four. Top shot.
Eng 178-3 (50 overs)
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Joe Root does some stretches between deliveries, trying keep his back pain under control. He then scores the two which bring up the 50 partnership with Jonny Bairstow - a fine effort after a long day in the desert.
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Anonynonymouse: One good Ashes.
Matt Birtwistle: The Bell toils.
Simon Langdale: Here we... Oh...
Arthur Clarke: The nearly man.
Johnny Corbett: Consistent in inconsistency.
Eng 176-3 (Root 70, Bairstow 27)
Jonny Bairstow continues to punish anything which is pitched up as he clobbers four more through the covers. This has been a real confidence-boosting knock.
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Henry Ashman: How many runs does Root need to overtake Smith as number one Test batsman in the world? I suspect he'll get them at this rate.
Keenos: Joe Root will become England's second best player of all time. After Ali Cook.
Eng 171-3 (trail by 207)
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Jonny Bairstow looks round the field as he tries to find scoring areas against Yasir Shah. He decides to play an orthodox shot into the cover region which brings two. Nice shot.
"It's been slightly Pakistan's day. But it can change, as Pakistan didn't get a big total. England need a small lead to offset having to bat last on a wearing pitch. Test matches ebb and flow, it's about whether you're good enough to take control of those moments."
Eng 168-3 (Root 69, Bairstow 20)
Jonny Bairstow really has taken the sting out of Pakistan and the pressure from himself by whacking both spinners to the boundary. He's fairly comfortable against the left-arm spin of Zulfiqar and gets back in his crease to force two from the final ball of the over.
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Simon W: Drop Buttler, Bell, put in Taylor, use Jonny B as wicketkeeper... What is Buttler still doing in the team?
Eng 166-3 (trail by 212)
Yasir Shah goes round the wicket to Joe Root, who sticks out the front pad and kicks the ball away. When the batsman does get chance to score, he sweeps a fine edge past the keeper for four. The bowler just puts his hands on his head.
"Bairstow's had two goes at the left-arm spinner and three at the leggie. For me, four of those were four-balls. It's a learning process, you don't see many leg-spinners these days but he should be able to play the slow left-armer."
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Ben in Windsor: Joe Root quickly turning into a 'Get him early or he goes big' player. Looks more and more a truly world-class player with every innings.
Eng 162-3 (Root 65, Bairstow 18)
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Jonny Bairstow's two boundaries seem to have settled him down. He's no longer looking frenetic at the crease as he gets forward well to defend nicely into the off side. Maiden for Babar.
"When the ball's turning away from Bairstow, I think he plays too much on the on side, with too much bottom hand. You've got to be careful. They're setting him up here."
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England 162-3 (44 overs)
Batsmen: Root 65*, Bairstow 18*
Fall of wickets: 5-1 (Moeen 1), 14-2 (Bell 4), 127-3 (Cook 65)
"We're going to lose overs again tonight - and the ICC do nothing. Ridiculous. I've been saying for 10 years they should have day-night cricket here, the MCC have been trying it for a few years in Abu Dhabi."
Eng 156-3 (Bairstow 13 off 23)
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The shadows are lengthening in the outfield now. I imagine we'll be running out of time soon, which will be a relief for Jonny Bairstow who tries to relieve the pressure by carving Babar over the infield for six. Good shot, and well controlled.
"It's been much more interesting than it was in Abu Dhabi. Pakistan will feel if they can get a wicket, there's a few people they'll feel they can get out. Stokes won't have seen many leg-spinners, then they're into the tail."
Eng 147-3 (trail by 231)
It's like we've been transported back to the days of Mushtaq Ahmed when Jonny Bairstow is batting. The Pakistan fielders don't seem to have much faith in the batsman's skill against the leg-spin of Yasir Shah and are jumping around and shrieking with every ball which beats the bat. The Yorkie looks to be on borrowed time here. He's not looking comfortable at all.
Ian Bell's career in three words
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Jack Williams: Missed when gone.
Jon Hare: One more innings!
R Suresh Kumar: Good bad & ugly.
Harry Waldie: Class is permanent.
Dominic Booth: Absolutely no ticker.
Eng 147-3 (Root 63, Bairstow 5)
Yes, Joe Root. Wahab over-pitches just a fraction and Joe Root unfurls the most delicious of cover drives to the boundary. Then does it again. This boy is special.
Samson: The Movie
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Matt Crawford: How about Brian Blessed to play Andrew Samson?
James Levy: Surely you'd get Russell Crowe to play Andrew Samson. He's played a maths whizz in A Beautiful Mind...
Eng 139-3 (trail by 239)
Wahab is round the wicket to Joe Root now, the right-hander showing the full face of the bat once again as he defends into the off side. I bet he's the batting coach's pet. Even brings an apple with him to nets.
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Nick: Cook's wicket means Root can claw back some runs in the race to be England's highest 2015 calendar runs scorer.
Thomas Measures: Need one of these two to make a big hundred now. Need a good lead, as batting on the 4th/5th day is going to be very tough.
Eng 139-3 (Root 54, Bairstow 5)
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Joe Root is presenting the full face of the bat to Yasir Shah, who is looking to bring first slip into play to the right-hander. Just a single from the over.
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Chris McSweeny: Re: Will Collins [13:20], for the last year (not including this match) Cook 18.8%, Root 18.0%, Bell 7.7% of runs scored by England.
Eng 138-3 (trail by 240)
Jonny Bairstow is chewing gum as he stares down the barrel of Wahab Riaz's thunderbolts. Is that not dangerous? We were never allowed gum in PE at school. Bairstow is lucky not to be caught at mid-wicket when he clips Wahab into the leg side. The ball bounced just before reaching the fielder.
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Christopher Deller: Can only apologise and refrain from further comments in future, lesson learnt! Stand by my comment though, another great knock.
Eng 135-3
Wahab Riaz is brought on post drinks. Expect a very hostile spell.
Especially after Joe Root walks away halfway through the fast bowler's run.
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John Monks: Technique over temperament.
Rowland Marsh: Class, fragile, finished.
Sam Julius: Brilliant but fragile.
Kevin Carter: Duck, Duck, Ton. #repeat.
Paul Bridge: The Long Goodbye.
Eng 135-3 (trail by 243)
I worry for Jonny Bairstow here. He's turned round by a Yasir Shah leg-spinner and he gets a thick outside edge past the waiting slip catcher. There's only so many times you can do that and get away with it.
"It's a bit like watching charades out there, trying to pick up a dark ball through the tinted glass of our commentary box. They can play until 5.50pm [14:50 BST] today, but we left at 6pm [15:00 BST] yesterday and it was dark, so I think we'll lose some overs."
50 for Joe Root
Eng 133-3
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Copy. Paste. Joe Root scores another half-century for England.
This time it's brought up with a single off the leg-spinner Yasir Shah.
Eng 132-3 (Root 49, Bairstow 4)
There's only a very small part of the ground bathed in natural light now. The small type of patch which a sunbather would seek out as they desperately try to get the last of the rays at the end of a long, hazy day. You know the type... the ones who are balanced precariously next to the pool because it's a better spot for the sun. Two from the over - a single each for Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow.
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Adam Lee: Christopher Deller [13:28] should be fined for match fixing.
He's certainly jinxed Cook there.
Eng 130-3 (trail by 248)
Late swing from Imran Khan and the ball crashes into the pads of Jonny Bairstow. It looks like it's sliding down leg and the umpire agrees. Decent shout though.
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England 130-3 (36 overs)
Batsmen: Root 48*, Bairstow 3*
Fall of wickets: 5-1 (Moeen 1), 14-2 (Bell 4), 127-3 (Cook 65)
"Fantastic delivery from Yasir Shah, he's got a bit of bounce, Cook got an edge onto his pad and you can see what that means to Pakistan - it might be that window of opportunity they need tonight. A big breakthrough."
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Cook c sub (Shehzad) b Yasir 65 (Eng 127-3)
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Mmm... that makes the next hour or so interesting.
Alastair Cook, who has been so adept at stepping across his stumps and working the leg-spinner into the on-side for a single, flicks a simple catch to the fielder at leg slip.
And sorry about this Christopher Deller (see tweet below), but you're likely to cop some pelters for those who believe in the mockers.
It happens to the best of us. Trust me... I've seen off many a set batsman.
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Christopher Deller: What would we do if we listened to those that called for Cook's head? Surely well on the way to being the best opener of all time.
Eng 126-2 (Cook 65 off 114)
That's good from Imran Khan, who delivers a slower ball which surprises Alastair Cook and almost induces a leading edge. The skipper just puts it out of his mind and carries on doing what he does best. Maiden over.
"I think Yasir Shah felt a little bit of pressure on him in those first few overs. It's all been rather rushed, sometimes you've just got to ease yourself into it."
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Will Collins, Yorkshire: What percentage of England's runs have been scored by Cook and Root over the last few Test series? I imagine it is a worryingly high number.
Eng 126-2 (trail by 252)
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I've just been doing a little digging and of the 14 Test batsmen to score more than 500 runs in 2015, only David Warner (75.63) and Ben Stokes (72.80) have a better strike-rate in the calendar year than Joe Root's 67.35. The slowest on that list? Alastair Cook (44.43).
Obviously the stats don't tell the full story, since Cook soaked up so many balls in that epic knock in Abu Dhabi last week. Just one from Yasir Shah's latest set of six.
Samson: The Movie
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Ben Hoare: Leonardo DiCaprio to play Andrew Samson in a movie. Brilliant at what he does but never gets the recognition he deserves!
"Andrew Samson is like a scoring Terminator - we just plug him in. The future is now and Andrew Samson is that man. I wonder who would play him in the film? A bearded Robert De Niro? Or stick a beard on Dustin Hoffman - he was good with numbers in Rain Man."
"Pakistan is the sixth country that Alastair Cook has made 1,000 Test runs against. He joins Kallis, Lara, Jayawardene and Ponting on six, while Dravid and Tendulkar both made 1,000 runs against seven countries."
Eng 125-2 (Cook 64, Root 47)
Frustration for Pakistan when Alastair Cook twice edges Imran Khan through gully for four. Misbah just rubs his brow in disbelief.
The Bell Debate: Three words
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We've asked you to sum up Ian Bell's career in three words:
Stuart Mitchell: Fluent, underachieving, Sherminator.
Stephen: Another nice thirty.
Four Balls Blog: Flashes of brilliance.
Nic Billot: Inconsistency = unfulfilled talent.
Andy Gould: Looking good... out.
Eng 116-2 (trail by 262)
Yasir Shah, backside jutting out and towel tucked into his trousers, tries to tempt Joe Root outside off stump but the right-hander just works a single into the off side. Alastair Cook then tickles another off his pads to bring up the 100 partnership, off 168 balls.
"It's always been the case for left-handers that they find it easier to play leg-spin because the ball is coming into them."
Eng 106-2 (trail by 272)
Yasir Shah is turning the ball on day two, so I dread to think what he could do on a day five pitch. Alastair Cook gets across to the off stump and flicks the ball into the leg side. That and the sweep shot is his plan against the Pakistan leggie.
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Harry Hopwood: Was marvelling over Cook's batting stats and noticed that he also has one wicket at an average of seven and a strike rate of 18! All rounder?
"There's a competitive mood in the ground, one of competitive tension. It's much better."
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Here come the players for the final session of the day. England captain present, Alastair Cook, marches out alongside England captain future (surely!), Joe Root.
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I feel sorry for Ian Bell. He's clearly a decent cricketer but I agree with those who say he has never achieved his full potential.
If you had to use three words to describe Ian Bell's career, what would they be?
The Bell Debate
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Airport Guy: Are the ECB secretly just waiting on Ian Bell to fall on his sword and retire so they don't look like the bad guys here?
Bertie: Ian Bell is this generation's Graeme Hick. Great talent, but could never quite get the consistency.
Jack Beecroft: Bell has to go to give a young lad a chance he's had a long career and is taking the opportunity away from others, like Taylor.
The wickets are still tumbling as his modern-day successors take on Sri Lanka in Colombo - late on day two, Sri Lanka are 55-2 in their second innings, leading West Indies by 92 after bowling the tourists out for 163 earlier.
And in Canberra, it's no surprise that New Zealand have beaten the Prime Minister's XI by 102 runs at the start of their tour of Australia. Apart from Ryan Carters (74) and Adam Voges (55), none of the Aussies auditioning for a Test place passed 17.
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Thanks James. Good session that, wasn't it?
We had wickets, runs, excellent fast bowling from Wahab... and carvery chat.
I've got to admit, I love the idea of a help yourself carvery as Geoffrey Boycott suggested.
"Are you OK, sir?" "Yes, thanks. I'm just waiting for another turkey to be put out. The bloke in front of me took the entire bird back to his table with him."
I say that in jest, but I did see a lady do that with a pizza once in America. Scandalous.
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It's time for me to bid you adieu - I'm off for lunch at the carvery. Marc Higginson will take you through the rest of the day's proceedings...
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Calum, Newcastle: Surely James Taylor has to come into consideration for the next Test at three. Scored runs there internationally in ODIs. England's selection policy is a shambles at the moment.
Tim in Marlow: I hate to question Sir Geoffrey but his comment on Moeen Ali is a load of rhubarb. How can he moan about Adam Lyth only being given seven Tests, then in the next sentence condemn Moeen as an opener after just three innings?
Tea interval
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Time for tea - and if you've been listening to TMS's reminiscences about Fred Trueman's appearance on Dad's Army, here it is.
Tea-time report
So, this Test really is in the melting pot as we reach tea on the second day.
After losing Moeen Ali - caught at short leg - and Ian Bell - caught behind - England have steadied themselves well.
Joe Root is his usual busy self, with his captain Alastair Cook happy to sit in the right-hander's slipstream.
If England can get through to the close without losing more than one more wicket, they will feel they can post a first-innings lead.
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Richard, Berkshire: Very interesting stat from Andrew at 11:27. If Cook has 9,600 Test runs and has only just reached 9,030 as an opener, where (or rather when) have the other 500 odd runs come from?
In 2006, he batted the whole summer at number three, with Trescothick and Strauss opening. In seven Tests at three, Cook averages 52.54.
"It's been a good session for England. Ian Bell continues his lean run but Moeen Ali was unfortunate. Alastair Cook has carried on his good form and Joe Root always looks the part now. He looks like a grown-up in the middle. A real man. He's become world-class."
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Eng 105-2
Root clips a single off Wahab, and that will be tea. A pretty even session, with England rebuilding very nicely after the loss of two early wickets.
"What odds would you get on Alastair Cook bringing up his 50 before tea by dancing down the track and planting Wahab into the stands for six?"
The Carvery Debate
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David, Windsor: Boycs at carvery: "No, no lad! You don't carve like that, too much bottom hand. My mum could do better with a stick of rhubarb!"
Geoff H: Surely if you're The Cook you can help yourself at The Carvery - not sure about The Root though.
Josh, Thaxted: Perfect metaphor as at the carveries I have been to, you help yourself to the accompaniments. Perfectly adequate food but the real test is the select meat you get. (Like runs against first-class bowlers).
Eng 104-2 (trail by 274)
Malik hurries through an over, Cook not biting. Maiden. Time for one more before tea, I reckon.
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Kev Lennon: I'd go for Cook, Root, a keeper then eight frontline bowlers. More attacking & we only have two decent batsmen anyway.
Mark O'Neill: About England's long batting order. Not sure I trust anyone below Root in the order against a quality spinner. Important stand!
Eng 104-2 (Cook 46, Root 44)
Wahab is taking the pitch out of the equation - he's alternating between the short ball dug in halfway down and the toe-crushing yorker. A delivery of the former variety lacks the requisite venom and Cook swivels on it and puts it away behind square. Class.
"Alastair Cook has hit his foot with his bat, just after hitting the ball. That's what Pakistan heard."
Umpire review
Now then, now then! Wahab Riaz has got a yorker to duck back in and hit Alastair Cook on the pad. The umpires signals runs, so did he hit it before it hit his pad? Pakistan want a second look...
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Nigel, Leeds: A top six of Cook, Compton, Taylor, Hildreth, Root, Bairstow looks a more solid top order to me. A good starting point at any rate.
Sam, Manchester: I think Ian Bell will retire if he doesn't get any substantial runs in this series. If he can't get any runs here then I wouldn't fancy his chances in South Africa vs Steyn & co. For the SA Tests I'd take out Bell & Rashid and put in Hales (opening) & Taylor/Vince.
Eng 95-2
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Root just shifting nicely through the gears here - Malik tosses one up and the youngster gets down one knee and smashes him through the covers for four.
The Bell Debate
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Adam: The people who support Ian Bell seem to be the type of people who can't understand why Gary Lineker isn't still getting picked up front for England.
Simon, Belfast: All those saying Bell being a rubbish batter should mean he should be dropped are forgetting that the whole KP saga showed us that being good at batting isn't that important when it comes to being selected and what matters most is helping team morale. Presumably Bell is great for the dressing room and that justifies his selection regardless of how rubbish his batting is.
Eng 89-2 (trail by 289)
Wahab is back. Root drives wide of mid-off for a single. About ten minutes left until tea - can this England pair survive through to the interval?
"Yasir Shah will be brilliant against the tail - he spins it a lot and pushes it through quite fast. It wouldn't give a tailender time to adjust and they certainly wouldn't pick his googly. I'd wager a lot of his wickets are taken lower down the order."
Of Yasir's 61 Test wickets, 40 have been players batting in the top seven
Eng 87-2 (Yasir 6-1-25-0)
Oh, hello there! Cook gets a big stride in and heaves Yasir out towards the leg-side boundary for a one-bounce four. England, whisper it quietly, have played the leggie well so far.
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Jeff Hitchings: Cook and Root are for England what Younus and Misbah are for Pakistan. Any big score will be built around one or both of them.
Eng 82-2 (trail by 296)
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Colleagues now comparing notes on their favourite local carveries. Easily distracted. Shoaib Malik enters the attack, and is milked for a few singles by Cook and Root.
Some debate on the sport desk as to the accuracy of that metaphor from Boycott. Are you allowed to help yourself at the carvery? Is that not poor form? You can't just go and carve yourself a few slices of beef, can you? Pretty sure that would attract a few stern looks from the staff. Still, I suppose if anyone can get away with it Geoffrey can. Cook chops Yasir for a couple in front of square.
"Babar is a buffet bowler, it's like when you go to a carvery - help yourself."
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Evan Samuel: Like the England attitude right now, looking to score rather than just defend.
Eng 77-2
Goodness gracious, Alastair Cook has had a huge slice of luck here. He gets himself into a dreadful tangle trying to sweep Zulfiqar and the ball trickles back onto the stumps, but does not dislodge the bails. How lucky is that? Zulfiqar can't believe it. Cook, undaunted, sweeps again, and this time he connects for a single.
"Joe Root just isn't missing any scoring opportunities. He's in imperious touch."
Eng 74-2 (trail by 304)
More yelps from Yasir as he gets Root shuffling back to one and almost sneaks it past the bat. He has a wonderfully expressive face - he seems to go through more different emotions than a Brazilian soap opera character in the course of one slow-motion replay of a thwarted appeal. He's still not quite finding a consistent line though, and that allows Joe Root to pocket a couple of boundaries.
Azhar back for Pakistan
Some good news for Pakistan fans, courtesy of Cricinfo's Umar Kalson.
Eng 64-2 (Cook 26, Root 24)
Now now Steve, that sort of subversive comedy is our job. Root brings up the 50 partnership for this pair with a push into the covers. It's been a good rebuilding job by these two - now can they kick on and get planning permission for the extension?
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Steve Lilley: It's funny, Pakistan didn't get through their overs anywhere near this quickly the last time they bowled...
Eng 63-2
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Ooh, Yasir Shah is getting it to rip here. Loud yells of excitement as he gets one to spin back sharply into Joe Root's pads, but that pitched well outside leg.
The Bell Debate
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Tim Stirke: Those asking for Bell to be dropped are probably the same people asking for Cook to be dropped not so long ago, look at him now.
Ian Harrison: People are forgetting that it's not just Bell's batting that is letting the team down. He's also dropping expensive catches. It shouldn't even be a case of Bell being dropped. He should have enough self-awareness to retire from Test cricket.
Liam Quinn: Ian Bell has won FIVE Ashes series. Give it a rest. He's one of the best players to ever pull on an England shirt.
Eng 58-2 (trail by 320)
Zulfiqar, however, has gone for the slightly iconoclastic single sweatband on the left wrist. A man unafraid to defy convention. Cook defies convention with a bold stroke, stepping out of his crease and slogging Zulfiqar with the spin over cow corner.
"I would leave him out. You can't always live in the past. When you're a new player, they don't always know if you can do it. Look at young Lyth from Yorkshire, they gave him five Tests*. You have to find a settled batting unit. Ian Bell has had 20 innings where he averages 19. England need to find a better opening batsman than Moeen Ali too, they need their top six to be settled."
*in fact, Lyth played seven Tests
Eng 53-2 (Cook 21, Root 18)
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Has there been some sort of style memo sent round the Pakistan bowlers prior to play? Yasir, Imran Khan and Wahab have all gone for the double sweatband look, one on each arm. Maiden from Yasir to start us off after drinks.
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Drinks break
Eng 53-2
Zulfiqar drops short and Root rocks onto his back foot and larrups him through mid-on. Time for drinks, with this partnership just beginning to get established.
"Alastair Cook has now overtaken Graeme Smith (9,030) in the list of most Test runs scored as an opener. Only Sunil Gavaskar (9,607) is now above him."
"Yasir starts his run-up like Shane Warne, but he's more explosive at the crease. He drives through a little bit whereas Warne would hold himself back a bit."
Eng 47-2 (trail by 331)
Here we go then - Yasir Shah, a man who has had perhaps more column inches lavished on him than anyone else before this series, is about to have his first bowl. Ooh, and immediately he almost traps Alastair Cook. Sharp spin, Cook misses it playing across his pads, the ball just doing too much.
Time for a bit of tweak - but it's not Yasir Shah just yet, instead we're going to see what Zulfiqar Babar can do with the newish nut. Root tickles a single behind square, before Cook gets the sweep out and collects a boundary.
"If there's a fault of Joe Root, it's that he likes to punch a straight ball through the covers. Against somebody with extra pace, like Wahab, that can be dangerous."
The Bell Debate
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Jack Byrne: Wonder whether James Taylor will get the 50 odd chances that Ian Bell got to score some runs?
Fenners: Who else has been lucky enough to get as many chances as Bell? Compton, Carberry, Robson, Lyth all gone after a handful of games.
Michael Thomas: The amount of negativity on #bbccricket from the public around every English wicket is just painful. Constantly fickle.
Eng 39-2
This is a bit saucy from Wahab - Joe Root is one of the form batsmen in world cricket and he's causing him all sorts of bother here. He gets the ball to rear up off the track again and Root ends up playing it with his chest. Unorthodox. The next ball bounces even higher and comfortably beats the despairing leap of Sarfraz. Five wides.
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Simon Goodall: What hold does Ian Bell have over the selectors? The guy is utterly useless.
Aaron Hill: Surely Ian Bell has had his time? Great career/player but look to the future! Open with Hales, move Moeen to three.
Max Baggins-Craig: Following Bell's poor performance of late, do we actually have any talent & passion? - besides Cook that is - c'mon Eng get a grip.
Eng 29-2 (trail by 349)
Ian Bell, by the way, is averaging just 19 in his last 20 Test innings, with 14 scores of less than 15 in that time. Those numbers ain't pretty. Cook stonewalls an over from Imran.
"Wahab was the best bowler at Abu Dhabi - he has the ability to rush the batsmen even on a placid pitch. This game looks like it's got a result in it so England need to dig in and get as many runs as they can."
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portobellodisco: Always been a fan of Bell. Fantastic player. But I think his time may well be coming to an end. He probably knows it sadly.
Dan Hyner: I feel sorry for Bell - class batsman but seems to have just gone. Might be one of his last tours but shouldn't be his legacy.
Jack Waldis: Is it any wonder Bell looks short of confidence if people are on his back every time he doesn't make a score these days?
Eng 29-2 (Wahab 4-0-19-1)
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Root still yet to get off the mark, and Wahab cranks up the Unease-ometer another couple of notches by wanging down a fearsome bouncer that gets the Yorkshire batsman ducking. And then another short ball, this one rears on him and pins him on the glove but Root just about manages to keep it down and collects his first run. A little smile from Joe, the young tyro relishing the heat of battle.
The over ends with another moral victory for Wahab as he induces a top edge from Root that flies over the keeper and trickles away to the boundary. Good contest here.
"Ian Bell's 'inner chimp' is seeing the slips as a danger. Alastair Cook, who is in form, is seeing big gaps - like through mid-wicket. That's because his mind is clear. He's not bothered about four slips being there."
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Kieran Dale: Regarding Ian Bell, at what point does backing the right horse becoming flogging a dead one?
Jonathan Evans: Sadly I can hear the Bell tolling for Ian. Time to take a blow son.
Mark Thomas: Bell gets picked despite numerous failures, fails again, and in other news the sky is blue.
Wickets tumble in Colombo
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The second Test in Colombo is moving on apace - West Indies have been bowled out for 163 at tea on day two, after they had dismissed Sri Lanka for 200 yesterday. A three-day Test on the cards?
Eng 21-2
Cook continues to look in fine fettle, creaming an absolutely sensational drive off Imran. Don't bother chasing that. Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka...
"Ian Bell's technique just isn't looking after him, at all. If you take Edgbaston last summer out of it, when he smashed a few at number three, it's a while since we've felt comfortable about Bell. Tim Southee had him with little outswingers, so did the Australians and now it's happening against Pakistan. He has to iron out his technical problems."
Dropped catch
Eng 17-2 (Cook 10, Root 0)
Time to "bin off" Lord Bellington? I've rarely heard it phrased more callously, Bowser. But you can't deny that England's number three is under a bit of pressure: that weary shake of the head and slow, mournful trudge back to the pavilion is becoming an uncomfortably familiar sight. Cook, who looks in great touch, connects nicely with a pull shot and gets two.
Oh goodness, England could be three down! It's the boy Root who gets a life, falling into a Pakistan's trap and pulling a ball straight to the man cunningly stationed at short backward square leg. The fielder gets a hand to it but can't hang on. Very tough chance, but technically a drop.
The Bell Debate returns...
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Bowser: Time to bin off Ian Bell. He's gone. Just can't hack it anymore.
Stuart Mitchell: Can we hang Bell out to dry? He needs to go, looks shot of confidence. Bring in James Taylor.
Jonathan France: Can't help feeling the this could be Bell's last tour if he doesn't get runs. Mentally I think he's half gone already.
Eng 14-2 (trail by 364)
Luckily, the next man in is Joe Root, a man who during the Ashes became so used to coming in in a crisis that rumour has it David Cameron asked him to sit in on COBRA meetings. He immediately has to contend with a fired-up Imran, who chucks the ball back at Root's toes when the batsman plays a forward defensive. Spicy.
"Again, it's down to the lack of balance on the front foot. He was dangling his bat away from his pad. He's opened the blade and when he's defending the ball, he's doing it with the face open. For a long time now, I don't feel that Ian Bell has any sort of control, certainly in the first 20 balls of his innings."
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Oh crumbs. Ian Bell was looking about as comfortable as a pair of hessian underpants out there and now he's gone. Beauty from Imran, full with just a hint of away-nibble, and Bell is drawn into a hesitant push and gets an edge. England in a bit of a pickle here.
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What We Learnt Today: Can Cook get to 10,000 runs in this innings?
He started on 9,593 so needs a record-breaking 407...
Eng 14-1 (Cook 7, Bell 4)
Nice timing from Cook, riding the bounce and whipping the ball off his thigh-pad, the ball whistling away to the rope. Wahab is bowling with real pace and he forces Bell into a mistake, just feeling for one outside off and lucky not to get a feather on it. Bell hangs his head in remorse.
"Seven wickets have fallen today. It took four days for that to happen in Abu Dhabi."
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Patch Tombstone: Moeen is not an opener... can we stop this madness?
Callum Johnstone: Do we have any batsmen in England who can actually open sensibly (forgetting Cook at the other end obviously!)
Eng 8-1 (trail by 370)
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Well, what do we make of that from Moeen Ali? We know he's the type of opener who is going to play a few shots and look to get the scoreboard ticking, but was that shot just a little too reckless so early in the innings? Bell's not trying anything that risky: just a nudge off his toes for two.
"We keep beating the drum, but this is the perfect time to bat. One of the top four needs to play a long innings. If you leave it to numbers five, six and seven then it gets difficult for them with the spinners on and men around the bat."
Eng 6-1
Ian Bell joins Alastair Cook at the crease, and England's veteran batsmen have a rebuilding job on their hands. On second look, Moeen Ali didn't hit that shot quite as cleanly as it first appeared - the bat twisted in his hand as he played the stroke. Still a terrific snaffle from Masood though.
"The first ball Wahab Riaz has got straight and Moeen's out. The batsman hit it properly and it flew to short leg who took a skilful catch."
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Moeen c Masood b Wahab 1 (Eng 5-1)
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Oh dear. That's not the start that England wanted. After Jonny Bairstow's heroics yesterday, it's another ripper from the short-leg fieldsman - this time it's Shan Masood under the helmet who shows lightning reflexes to pluck a Moeen Ali leg glance - off the full face of the bat - out of the sky.
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Stephen Green: Can I add the fantastic former Test cricketer (and ICC hall of fame member) Enid Bakewell to the list. Enid is still playing at 74 for Purley Redoubtables women's cricket team promoting the game to all newcomers.
This season Enid was batting for the Redoubtables in the Southern Women's Cricket League with my daughter who was 11 at the time - has there been a wider gap in ages for a batting partnership?
"Imran Khan reminds me of Umar Gul. He tries to shape it into the left-handers with the new ball and he can do a bit with the older ball."
Eng 4-0 (Cook 2, Moeen 1)
Imran Khan may not have scored a run in seven Test matches, but he can certainly do a bit with the ball - he looked impressive in the first Test. Cook is away with that familiar, reassuring tuck off the hips. Imran gets a bit of late movement into Moeen's pads with his final delivery but Moeen jams his bat down just in time and he too is off the mark.
"I'd much prefer to be in Pakistan's position. They have runs on the board, the pitch is wearing and they have Yasir Shah in their attack."
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The opening partnership of Moeen and Cook, a delicious mix of bushy beard and magical wrists and sqaure jawline and redoubtable high elbow, is in the middle, and Imran Khan has the cherry. Here we go...
"Yasir Shah's been fizzing them down to Grant Flower, the Pakistan batting coach, on the outfield and Shoaib Malik's been having a twirl too. I'm not sure how much of the Pakistan seamers we'll see. 378 is still a very competitive total."
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Ben in Windsor: Time for some people other than Cook and Root to step up I feel. Can't be relying on these two ALL the time. Decent scores from Mo, Bell and Bairstow please. JT pushing hard for a place and get him in if Bell or Bairstow can't get a big one again on what looks like a belting pitch still.
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What do we reckon this afternoon session will bring then? More success for the new-look opening partnership of Alastair Cook and Moeen Ali, who put on a century stand in their first match at the top of the order last week? Or will the Pakistani bowlers, including the fiery Wahab Riaz and the wily leg-spinner Yasir Shah, put England in a spot of bother?
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Zulfiqar Babar's decision to review his lbw has provoked some debate...
Bryony Lever: To be fair, if your choice was between maybe wasting a review or leaving the runscoring to a man [Imran Khan] who does not have any Test runs...
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Kate in Sydney: How about Dustin Fletcher? Just retired at the age of 40 after playing 400 AFL games over 23 years.
Al Korinek: Gooch has to be up there. Got better with age and averaging 58 as captain in later years.
Thomas Moffatt, Onchan, Isle of Man: John MaGowan, darts player from Northern Ireland and regular on the PDC tour between 2002 and 2011 made his World Championship debut in the PDC's 2009 edition at the tender age of 67 reaching the second round where he lost to 58-year-old Dennis Priestley. John retired in 2011 after suffering a hip injury.
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Thank you Higgy. I'm not sure my seating activities have ever been broadcast to quite such a wide audience. But yes, I can confirm that I am now ensconced in the hotseat and raring to go.
As my colleague says, we're intriguingly poised in this match after a good-but-not-great score from Pakistan in the first innings, and this next session could go a long way towards deciding the outcome of this Test match.
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James Gheerbrant has just sat in the chair beside me, ready to take the live text reins for the afternoon session.
Will England pile them on? Or will Yasir Shah become the latest leggie to destroy English hopes?
James is here to guide you through it all. I'll see you later.
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Luke Swales: To bowl Pakistan out for less than 400 is a great effort by England's bowlers.
Richard Mills: 96-6 this morning - great effort by the England bowlers. Now for another Cookie anchor-drop - Come on England!
Greg Fowler: This Pakistan tail reminds me of the Giddins, Mullally, Malcolm & Tufnell days.
Remembering WG Grace
Until then, there's an excellent documentary remembering WG Grace on TMS. Listen at the top of this page or via BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
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Just joining us and wondering why there's no cricket? Well, after bowling out Pakistan just before lunch this morning, England will begin their reply to the hosts' 378 all out after an extended lunch break because of Friday prayers. We're due to get back under way around 10:30 BST.
What's happened here then?
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Fenners: Irrespective of how we bat, bowling them out for under 400 is a fine effort. Six-man attack is much more balanced now with Rashid.
Wickets have continued to fall at the P Sara Oval in Colombo where, having bowled Sri Lanka out for 200 on day one, West Indies are already 105-6 with new Test captain Jason Holder at the crease. Seamer Dhammika Prasad has four wickets.
Meanwhile, New Zealand's tour of Australia has begun with the traditional Prime Minister's XI match at Canberra. The Kiwis made 307-8 from their 50 overs, mainly thanks to an opening stand of 196 by Martin Guptill (94) and Tom Latham (131).
In reply, the PM's XI are 32-3 with captain Mike Hussey leading a rearguard action. There may be Aussie Test batting spots up for grabs, but Cameron Bancroft (0), Usman Khawaja (1) and Joe Burns (5) have all failed their audition.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Phoon, Edinburgh: Roberto Duran. 120 professional fights in 5 decades, only retired by a car crash.
Matt from Dorchester: We (Martinstown CC) have a Second XI bowler who is playing his 60th season - and picked up the club's bowler of the year last season - stalwart!
Steve, Rugby: Jane Asher, masters swimmer aged 84. Holds over 50 world records, her time for 50m free equates to three seconds faster than Fran Halsall's British record.
Remembering WG
WG Grace, speaking in his memoirs, noted that batsmen would not hit a bowler if he was straight - therefore all of the fielders were close and runs were hard to come by. So he decided to hit over the top. Not in a slogging way, but in a calculated way. A pioneer.
Tune into TMS if you want to hear more on the great man, in this extended lunch break.
"97-6 this morning. Game moving on. Could move on a bit quicker than Abu Dhabi from here. Mind you, that's not saying a lot."
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Evan Samuel: Super session for England - contributions from everyone. Wicket looks to be turning, though. Won't be easy.
Andy Donley: Pakistan have a tail like a Manx cat. Nonexistent.
Andy Harris Cricket: Now Sehwag has retired, they should bring the runner rule back. He was the chief abuser of the rule.
Remembering WG
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Piers Morgan, former editor of the Daily Mirror and lifelong cricket enthusiast, once nominated WG Grace as the greatest English player of all time.
"Boxing gave us Muhammad Ali, football you would have Pele, and in cricket Grace was the greatest. Botham rolled into Flintoff rolled into John Bull," Morgan told BBC Radio 4's Great Lives in 2006.
"He had everything. He was physically imposing, he was comfortably the best player of his generation, if not all time.
"He was there when cricket became not just a village green pastime but became a proper international sport and it needed an iconic figure to make that transition work and to bring the English public with him and Grace did that magnificently."
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Edward Bates: Don't forget that WG Grace also played God in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Indeed - his face and beard were used in an animation when King Arthur and the knights are sent on their quest.
"He was the first iconic cricketer, an absolute star. The gates at Lord's - the iconic place of world cricket - are named after him."
Morning report
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So a good session for England, who rattled through Pakistan's lower order and will be pretty pleased to have restricted the hosts to a total of 378.
The session started just as the afternoon and evening session did yesterday - with an immediate wicket as Stuart Broad brilliantly set up centurion Misbah for an lbw.
After that England were frustrated by some diligent batting from Asad Shafiq and the more counter-attacking Sarfraz Ahmed, but they got the breakthrough just after the drinks break when Sarfraz picked out James Anderson off the bowling of Moeen Ali.
England then mopped up the tail, with Adil Rashid taking his first first-innings Test wicket and Mark Wood finishing strongly with two wickets.
TMS will shortly be discussing the life and times of WG Grace.
Want to know more about the great man? Read Nabil Hassan's excellent feature here.
Lunch
Pak 378 all out
So, the players will now take lunch - which will be at least an hour because of Friday prayers.
And Imran Khan is still without a Test run.
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Shafiq c Root b Wood 83 (Pak 378 all out)
That's it, folks! Asad Shafiq plays an ugly heave into the leg side and picks out Joe Root at short mid-wicket. Another victim for Mark Wood and England march off knowing they are in this game.
Now for the skipper to go big. A daddy hundred please, Cookie.
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Mike, Liverpool: Geoffrey Boycott playing Test cricket at 107 years old and commentating at 313. Hats off to Geoff!
Matt: JR Hartley, still fly fishing at 103.
Pak 378-9
Asad Shafiq is going to battle on. But he's struggling. Maybe he wants to help Imran Khan get a first Test run?
"There's a certain romanticism about the way that Pakistan play their cricket. Their tail-enders don't hang around and try to eke out every run, they bat like tail-enders on the village green."
Pak 378-9
Imran is still there! Adil Rashid lofts one up and the number 11 smashes it back to mid-on, where the ball lands just short of the fielder.
"Shafiq has looked wonderful in this innings. He's very compact - all his movements are small - and his timing is good. He's a lovely man to watch bat."
Pak 377-9
Asad Shafiq needs 18 runs for a century, but he's not taking them in singles. He refuses to put Imran Khan on strike.
"He's actually ducked it, very much like Chris Read against Chris Cairns at Lord's in 1999. He put his hand in front of his face in shame."
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Babar lbw b Wood 3 (Pak 377-9)
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They'll laugh about that review in the England dressing room later.
Enter Pakistan number 11 Imran Khan. A man who has not scored a run in seven Tests.
Review
Pak 377-8
Oh my days... that's the worst review I've ever seen. Babar thinks Mark Wood is going to bowl a bouncer but it's a normal, full-length delivery and the ball hits him on the pad. Plumb. Plumber than a plum. But the batsman reviews.
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Adam Gilbert: Enjoying the timings of this tour. Few overs with morning brew, lunch as I get to office, then 2 til 5 hurriedly do a day's work.
Mike Bell: Suggest Jonathan France (08.42), just takes short lavatory trips to generate wickets. If at work, can count as time off in loo.
"Rashid just pitched one on middle and leg that turned six inches past the off stump. That's a good sign for Pakistan's spinners."
Pak 375-8 (Shafiq 81 off 163)
Adil Rashid has got Zulfiqar on toast here - bowling a perfect leggie which beats the outside edge. The tailender is happy to get to the other end when he tickles three down to fine leg. One good ball followed by one bad ball.
The over ends with two more rippers - the second of which Babar plays an awful swish at.
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Adam Wrong: Kimiko Date Krumm and Martina Navratilova both regularly turn back the years.
Mark Stevens: Reg Harris, track cyclist of the 40s and 50s, made a 1974 comeback to win the British title aged 54.
Mark Wood looks like a normal bloke, acts like a normal bloke but there's nothing normal about his bowling.
Asad Shafiq has look immovable this morning, but Wood almost gets him with an inswinging yorker at 90mph. The holy grail of deliveries for a fast bowler. If he straightens up, England won't need a wrecking ball to dislodge Shafiq.
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YU HIMM FUNG: George Foreman - the oldest heavyweight champion of the world at 45 years old.
James Dixon: How about Andy Sandham - the first Test triple centurion at the grand old age of 39.
Pak 370-8
Mark Wood returns to the bowling attack, with Pakistan number 10 Zulfiqar in his sights.
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Dave in Walthamstow: SF Barnes was taking wickets for England in his 50s, wasn't he?
Steve, Sheffield: Geoffrey's Mum or Auntie? Still racking up the runs at a ripe old age according to the great man.
"A lovely little tempter just outside off stump. A nice fullish length and Yasir was suckered. Beautifully bowled, you could have caught that in my mum's pinny."
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Yasir c Stokes b Rashid 16 (Pak 370-8)
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That's nice. Very nice.
Adil Rashid gets rid of his fellow leggie - tossing one up and inducing a flashing edge to Ben Stokes at first slip. Done him like a kipper.
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Matt Berry: Can't believe nobody has mentioned Francesco Totti, 39 years old and still playing at the top level for the same club. Legend.
James Dixon: How about Sam Snead? Oldest PGA Tour winner at 52, also 10 years after his last win he came third in the US PGA aged 62.
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Pak 369-7 (Shafiq 77, Yasir 16)
Asad Shafiq is a master of his craft. He makes even a single look classy, as he dances down the track and waits for the ball to dip before working it into the leg side for a single. A man totally at ease with the game.
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Mungo Fawcett: Gary Keedy must be up there at 40 still regularly returning figures along the lines of 27 overs, 13 maidens, 2-53. Or something similar.
Chris Higginbottom: Our League president played league cricket in eight different decades, making his debut in the 1940s and retiring in about 2011.
Pak 366-7 (Rashid 17-1-77-0)
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Is Moeen something of an unsung hero? We've ditched the 'part-time' spinner tag now, at least.
There's no reason why he can't score 3,000 Test runs and take 250 wickets. A big ask, but he's capable and young enough.
Adil Rashid is brought on to try and lop the tail from the Pakistan innings. Three from the over.
Moeen is getting his rewards for some hard yards on the first day. He's got a chance of taking a five-for now.
Not that Yasir Shah is thinking this way as he drives four square of the wicket. Lovely shot.
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Jonathan France: Just popped to the loo & England pick up two wickets. No sure I can stay in here all day though!
Pak 356-7 (Shafiq 70, Yasir 10)
In fact, Yasir is having a good time out there. After that unconvincing four over the keeper's head, he flicks Ben Stokes through square leg for another boundary.
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Nikki Holmes (pistol shooter for Jersey at the Commonwealth Games): As a pistol shooter may I mention Mick Gault, 61. Bronze @ Glasgow 2014, six Commonwealth Games, 18 medals. Still shooting!
Pak 352-7
Yaasir Shah's top score in first-class cricket is 71, so he's no mug with the willow. He rides a couple of Ben Stokes bouncers well, before going after one and top-edging the ball over the keeper for four. Here's another who isn't staying for an evening meal.
"That's Moeen Ali's 50th Test wicket, one year and 133 days after his debut. Only three England spinners have reached the milestone quicker: Roy Tattersall, Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann."
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Neil Schofield: There is only one sportsman and that's Cafu - he must be about 100 now!
Cote d'Azur property: Valentino Rossi. On for a 10th world title at age 36.
Jack Mendel: Brad Hogg has done pretty well! Just signed a new Big Bash League contract. Only 44.
"This pitch looks as if it's going to be good for batting for the next three days. England should take that opportunity, bat for five sessions and get 500 and a lead."
Pak 346-7 (Shafiq 70, Yasir 0)
"More brains in a pork pie". You can tick that off your Boycott Bingo card.
Sir G is correct, mind. That was an awful innings. Asad Shafiq realises he needs to get a shift on now and he gets down on one knee before belting four over mid-on.
"He wants to be hitting himself on top of the head. You've got a guy at the other end batting nicely and all he's done in some nonsensical slogging. More brains in a pork pie. The captain should say to him: 'What the hell are you doing?'"
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If some batsmen book in for bed and breakfast, Wahab just poked his head around the door and enquired about vacancies.
He had no intention of staying for any length of time - playing an ugly swipe across the line and top-edging a steepling catch to James Anderson at mid-on.
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Ken Isaacs, Nottingham: Our local village cricket team, Sapcote, had a guy called Neville Smith who was still playing into his eighties. When he died they named a street after him!
Annie P, Motions, Japan: Ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, 43 years young and still winning! He was winning medals before most of his current opponents were even born!
Pak 338-6 (Stokes 16-3-45-1)
Pakistan can take heart from the fact that Wahab's highest career partnership was with the bloke down the other end, Asad Shafiq. They put on 38 together against Sri Lanka earlier this year.
The right-hander, who bowls left-arm quick, looks decidedly iffy outside off stump against the reverse swing of Ben Stokes though.
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Theo Sheridan: Yesterday: wicket right after lunch and right after tea. Today: wicket at the start of the morning and straight after drinks?
Pak 335-6
Wahab is off the mark with a single off the outside edge. Ben Stokes, at first slip, wasn't far from grabbing that. It just didn't carry.
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Philip Beagon: Ken Rosewall. Two grand slam tennis finals at 39 in 1974. Best backhand bar none.
PtheP: Tom Delaney raced his Frazer Nash from 1930 until 2006, the year he died aged 94.
Pak 334-6
Wahab Riaz, with a Test batting average below nine, is the new man to the crease. Get loose, Adil.
"Moeen tossed it up just a little bit, and the ball was too close to Sarfraz, he didn't get under it. That just gives England a lift, because those two were playing nicely and looking to dominate."
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Sarfraz c Anderson b Moeen 32 (Pak 334-6)
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That feels like a big wicket in the context of the innings. England are now into the Pakistan bowlers after Sarfraz decides to come down the wicket to Moeen but succeeds only in scooping a catch to James Anderson at mid-on.
Scorecard update
Pakistan 334-5 (106 overs) - won toss
Batsmen: Shafiq 66*, Sarfraz 32*
Fall of wickets: 51-1 (Hafeez 19), 58-2 (Malik 2), 85-3 (Masood 54), 178-4 (Younus 56), 282-5 (Misbah 102)
Ben Stokes is already getting the ball to reverse and he almost induces Sarfraz Ahmed into squirting a catch to point. It drops just short, but promising for England.
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Tony Whitley: May I mention my Dad. Born 1899. Suffered captivity in the war and lost an eye whilst escaping through Sweden. Dad was 54 years old at the Queen's Coronation and at the big street party Dad anchored our tug-of-war team. As a lad, having run away to sea, he had worked as a deckie on sailing ships and he really knew how to call and haul. As a young teenager I was not on the best of terms with my Dad but that day he made my hair stand on end and my heart beat with pride! His roars of 'Heave' - pause - 'Heave' and led his team of bus conductors, fitters, clerks and others in a great rhythmic beat. Irresistible. They won the prize. If Her Majesty's coronation did nothing else, it gave me pride in my Dad.
"In partnership, Shafiq and Sarfraz have scored 855 runs together at an average of 57."
Pak 333-5
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Pak 333-5 (Shafiq 66, Sarfraz 31)
Moeen Ali is on for his first over of the day and he is greeted by Sarfraz with a boundary down to third man. It's all gone a little flat for England - this partnership is sucking the life out of them, and is now worth 51 runs.
Sam: Ex England semi-pro footballer and Cheltenham legend Neil Grayson finally hung up his playing boots last year just short of his 50th birthday.
Pak 326-5 (Anderson 20-5-40-1)
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I'm only teasing... Freddie's one of my cricketing heroes. England could do with one of his lung-busting overs here. James Anderson is struggling to get the newish ball to do very much.
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David Fletcher: Eddie Hemmings played Tests in his 40s. And how old was 'Flat' Jack Simmons of Lancs when he retired?
Simon Richardson: Seeing as the first four days of the first Test lasted about 100 years, I'm currently defying age as a 131-year old worker.
Scott Fowler: My dad made his cricketing debut at the tender age of 48. It didn't go to plan with a duck and a bruised ankle.
Pak 325-5 (Shafiq 65, Sarfraz 24)
Asad Shafiq has scored more runs through mid-wicket (15) than anywhere else on the ground. England react to his obvious strength by placing a catcher at short mid-wicket. James Anderson bowls him a rib-tickler and hits the batsman on the glove. After scampering a single, Shafiq calls for some medical help. That hurt him.
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Toby Tarrant: David Seaman made THAT save against Sheff Utd when he was 39!
Diggerthedog: Jamie Cureton - 40 and still banging in goals.
Tom Hart: Phil "The Power" Taylor! An elite athlete well into his 50s.
"Sarfraz will always deliver a counter-punch. He has got an uncanny ability to find the right angles."
Pak 324-5 (partnership 42 runs)
At the end of his last over, James Anderson was warned for running on to the danger area for a second time. Do it again and he's out of the attack. That's the last thing England need.
Another tidy set of six from Adil Rashid, but the batsmen are picking him and milking the runs.
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Tim: Miguel Angel Jimenez. Cigars, red wine, fast cars. And the best hole-in-one celebration you'll ever see. Utter legend.
"I think Misbah's end is nearing. I don't see him carrying on for more than six months or so."
Pak 320-5 (run-rate 3.13)
A spectator sits in the stand surveying the action through some binoculars. I'm sure the Pakistan batsmen would like something similar as they try and work out the types of delivery James Anderson is about to bowl. Two from the over.
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Dan Gee: Diego Costa for Chelsea. He looks more like 52 than 25!
dan almond: Stanislaw Kowalski, 105. World's oldest living competitive athlete.
Joseph Murphy: Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova played well into their relative old ages.
"In the last session or even in the middle session today, I can see Rashid picking up wickets. It's such an asset to have a leg-spinner against the tail-enders."
Pak 318-5 (Shafiq 60 off 122)
Adil Rashid is a short man with long legs. It must be a nightmare for him to get fitted for a suit. In other, more pressing news, Asad Shafiq has decided he's going to take on the Yorkshire leggie and he mis-times a shot into the off side. The ball flies into the desert air but lands safely in the outfield. The right-hander got lucky there.
Sarfraz shows him how it's done - a full toss being belted through to the long-on boundary.
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David: Gibson has worked wonders with the England bowling attack. Broad especially.
Pak 311-5 (100 overs)
England have four men around the bat for the right-handed Sarfraz - you could throw a blanket over them between slip and short extra cover. So what does Sarfraz do? He gets down and sweeps James Anderson for a single.
Only five pace bowlers have got most career Test wickets than Jimmy. I wonder if anybody ever swept Glenn McGrath or Courtney Walsh?
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Pakistan 309-5 (99 overs) - won toss
Batsmen: Shafiq 58*, Sarfraz 15*
Fall of wickets: 51-1 (Hafeez 19), 58-2 (Malik 2), 85-3 (Masood 54), 178-4 (Younus 56), 282-5 (Misbah 102)
Steve Lank: Juan Manuel Fangio, F1 champion in 1957 at the age of 46. Beating a 29-year-old Stirling Moss into second.
K's Papa: Tom Watson.
Scott Fowler: My dad made his cricketing debut at the tender age of 48. It didn't go to plan with a duck and a bruised ankle.
Pak 309-5 (Rashid 14-1-63-0)
Adil Rashid is regarded as somebody who is effective against the lower order, but England still need another wicket before they can say they are into the Pakistan tail. Just three from the over.
"Shafiq is compact, he's tidy, his technique is in good order and he's been very consistent over the last couple of years. He never shirks his responsibility."
Pak 306-5 (98 overs)
Sarfraz has an odd stance at the crease - he stands Jonny Bairstow-like waiting for the bowler to run in (bat high, eyes fixed on the prize) before switching to an Eoin-Morgan-like stance as the ball comes down (crouching back in his crease).
As Adil Rashid gets loose, James Anderson is given a bowl. Just one from the over.
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Simon Richardson: Simon Shaw defied age by playing top level rugby until the age of 40!
Faisal: Roger Federer and Didier Drogba.
Dave Evans: Terry Funk. Was still regularly wrestling into his late 60s.
Pak 305-5 (run-rate 3.14)
That's dented Stuart Broad's figures a little - Asad Shafiq making it 11 from the over when he clips the ball through to the mid-wicket boundary as the bowler got too leggy.
"Sarfraz is a typical keeper-batsman - he's busy, he's energetic, he's got good control with his shots. He causes chaos for captains - Alastair Cook has had to change his field three or four times already today."
Pak 298-5 (Shafiq 53, Sarfraz 12)
A lovely shot from Sarfraz Ahmed, who caresses the ball through the off side for four. He then rides a fuller delivery, getting over the bounce of the ball to guide three more into the cover region. Impressive.
"In Asad Shafiq's last nine Tests, he has 779 runs at 64.91 with four centuries and two fifties."
50 for Asad Shafiq (off 111 balls)
Pak 294-5
The world's best number six? The stats certainly say so (nobody has more Test centuries batting at four down than Asad Shafiq), and he brings up his 12th Test half-century with a thick-edged four through the slip region. He went at the ball with soft hands, creating his own luck there. A superb knock.
"I just have a feeling that this Pakistan side could come seriously unstuck in England next summer."
Pak 284-5 (Broad 16-4-37-1)
England's seam bowlers, to a man, have been superb on this tour. Their skills have been as good as I can remember.
Stuart Broad is perhaps the most skilful of all Englishmen in these conditions and he has another leg-before shout turned down. It was sliding down leg and Sarfraz survives. Maiden over.
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Paul Mitchell: Billy Bonds - West Ham's player of the year in 1987 at the age of 41.
Śârâh Khäñ: For me it has to be the one and only Imran Khan!
"Wood's arrival in the England team has brought energy and something different - I like what he brings to the team, his character. But he has got to be patient because he hasn't had that five- or six-wicket haul in his Test career yet."
Pak 284-5 (Wood 16-7-27-1)
Jonny Bairstow is, once again, under the helmet and he always seems in the game at short leg when Mark Wood is bowling at the batsmen's ribs. Pakistan have barely got out of the stables this morning with Crazy Horse Wood and Stuart Broad keeping a tight rein on proceedings.
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"There's already the odd patch developing and certainly by day four, there will be something for the spinners to work with."
Pak 283-5 (93 overs)
Sarfraz is off the mark with a very quick and frenetic single into the leg side. A Kevin Pietersen-like first run.
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Rachel T: Fantastic! Wood said England would get two early wickets! Saddling up my imaginary horse as I type...
Chris Boyes: Love it when a plan comes together. Set him up for that.
Jack Mendel: Watching UAE. Tests is the most convenient.. No getting up in the middle of the night. Cricket with cereal.
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Pak 282-5 (Shafiq 46, Sarfraz 0)
Mark Wood shares opening bowling duties with Stuart Broad, and he follows a similar plan - bowling fast, accurate bouncers at Asad Shafiq. Maiden over.
"That was Misbah's fourth Test century after the age of 40. Only Jack Hobbs, with eight, has hit more. He's also hit the most sixes after 40, and is fifth on the list of most runs after the age of 40, just behind Geoffrey Boycott."
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Sam Knibbs: Jo Pavey.
Ali Akram: Favourite old sportsman is boxer Bernard Hopkins. Still defying the odds and was world champ at the age of 49.
esma'eil: Gianluigi Buffon.
Pak 282-5
That rather disrupts my debate about sportspeople who defy the years. But no bother... let's carry on regardless, in the words of Beautiful South. Sarfraz Ahmed is the new man to the crease and he ducks under a Broad bouncer first up.
"Misbah's going to have a tough time next summer if he comes to England, in English conditions. When you have that plan set, you know the bouncer's in the locker because the field's been set for it, but you've got to keep your head over off stump."
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Misbah lbw b Broad 102 (Pak 282-5)
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He's gone! And what superb bowling it was from Stuart Broad. Dare I say it... world class!
Misbah was peppered with short stuff - he ducked, he weaved, he rode one. Once his prey was trapped back in his crease, Broad bowled a fuller delivery and Misbah was all at sea.
Superb.
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Pak 282-4
Stuart Broad nips one back into Misbah's pads. Looks out. Is given out. Misbah reviews.
"Charles Dagnall has a five-minute routine when he tees off in golf. It didn't work for him in Abu Dhabi, but last night, under the lights... he got a hole-in-one at the second."
Pak 282-4
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"Misbah did a good job yesterday. He's got a good record against everybody, but they shouldn't be worried about bowling spin to him, he's not infallible against spin so I don't think England are in a bad position. They've got to aim to bowl them out for 350. They can't afford to let Pakistan get 450 because of their leggie."
'Let's get into them early doors'
England pace bowler Mark Wood impressed yesterday - unsettling quite a few of the Pakistan batsmen with his pace. He also faced the media last night, saying: "If we could have had one more wicket, we'd have said it was a really good day.
"At number eight they've got a bowler, so if we can get into them early doors tomorrow, then hopefully we can knock over the tail pretty quickly.
"The wicket was probably easier to score on than Abu Dhabi, a bit more skiddy, which suits my type of bowling. But all in all, it's a better pitch to bat on."
"I used to break bowling down into small sections. I'd normally bowl three or four overs for four runs each before lunch, then 15 overs for not more than 25 runs in the afternoon, then you'd look to take a wicket or two in the evening - so by the end of the day, you'd have bowled 30 overs and taken 2-60 or 2-70, then you'll have done a really good job for your team on the first day."
"People think you come to this part of the world and the spinners will just win you the game. But the wickets are very good to bat on. Pakistan will target Moeen Ali so that Alastair Cook is forced to bowl Adil Rashid more in the first innings."
"Early wickets are the key for England. Wahab Riaz is only a couple of wickets away. If Pakistan get over 400, it's going to be very difficult for England."
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And they don't have to be famous either. Maybe 62-year-old Cliff down at your local cricket club, who bowls 25 overs unchanged?
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Pakistan 282-4 (90 overs) - won toss
Batsmen: Misbah 102*, Shafiq 46*
Fall of wicket: 51-1 (Hafeez 19), 58-2 (Malik 2), 85-3 (Masood 54), 178-4 (Younus 56)
Oh yes... Misbah is something special. He's taken the Pakistan cricket team and turned them into a cohesive unit (no easy task!) and his performances with the bat continue to astound.
While some 41-year-olds might be thinking about the odd game of darts down the local boozer, Misbah is taking the attack to international cricket teams in some of the most oppressive heat any sportsman will endure.
Top-drawer stuff, I'm sure you will agree.
But can he go on and take Pakistan to that magical 500-mark?
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What a man. Feats of sheer endurance. Age-defying. Superman-like stuff.
Not bad for a man born in 1974.
No, not Bear Grylls (although he was born in 1974) - but Misbah-ul-Haq.
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- Brad Haddin - 54 sixes, 363 fours (12.9496%)
- MS Dhoni - 78 sixes, 544 fours (12.5402%)
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Right then. A good day's cricket that.
I'm signing off for now, but be sure to read James Gheerbrant's match report later on. It's over here.
Until next time, goodbye.
End of day scorecard
England 182-3 (44 overs) - trail by 196
Batsmen: Root 76*, Bairstow 27*
Fall of wickets: 5-1 (Moeen 1), 14-2 (Bell 4), 127-3 (Cook 65)
Bowling figures: Imran 10-4-26-1, Riaz 10-0-51-1, Zulfiqar 10-2-35-0, Yasir 17-2-59-1, Malik 4-1-10-0
Pakistan 378: Misbah 102, Shafiq 83, Younus 56, Masood 54, Wood 3-39, Moeen 3-108
Pakistan won toss
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Harry, Edinburgh: Buttler's last chance? Big player in the one-day side but with two keepers in the starting team, is he the first to go? Terrific batsman but needs a big score. Whereas Bairstow is coming off a huge county campaign... 92 is a good average in any form!
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"Yasir Shah bowled nicely, he didn't bowl long-hops or full tosses, he looks as though he knows where he's bowling, and if it looks as though it's going to turn with us bowling last, we've got problems. Tomorrow is crucial."
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Rakesh Pradhan: First time I've seen Yasir Shah. He will be dangerous second innings on this pitch.
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Geoffrey Boycott
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"It's fairly even stevens as I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow. I always say 'add two wickets to the score' but Misbah got out straight away this morning and England started well. Shafiq played very well, he was the quality player for Pakistan but he couldn't get them above 378 all out. I always say Moeen Ali's an ordinary bowler, he's not Graeme Swann, but he gets wickets which is great for the lad. A wonderful gift to have. Rashid got a wicket, Wood bowled well, there was nothing wrong with England's bowling."
'The wicket is still good to bat on'
England's Stuart Broad, speaking to Sky Sports: "Misbah played really well for his 100 yesterday. He scored 70-odd off as many balls against the spinners but was more circumspect against the fast bowlers. We had a plan to dig a few in and then pitch one up and it worked well for us.
"The bouncer can set batsmen back in their crease slightly and to some batsman it's a dot ball, if not a wicket-taking delivery. We got our rewards today for our work yesterday. Our analyst said our numbers were world-class at hitting the top of off stump yesterday.
"Our aim is to go past Pakistan and go above 400 but there's a lot of hard graft to come before then. Our spinners said it was hard to bowl with the old ball between 50 and 80 overs so we need to take advantage of that. I still think the wicket is good to bat on - even better than Abu Dhabi because the ball comes on a little quicker."
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"England have to aim at getting a lead, it's a 500 pitch if you bat well. England depend too much on the captain and Joe Root, and so it proved. Moeen Ali got out straight away, they've got to know where the [short leg] fielder is. Bell's footwork was poor, he's tentative and his mind isn't there. The face of the bat is open so he's playing with half a bat and giving catching practice. I'm told since he got that hundred in Antigua he averages 19."
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Patrick Sutton in Windsor: I think Bairstow has shown all the signs of being a long-term Test match batsman. He just needs a Test match century, and now is as good a chance as any.
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"We're not a great batting unit as we don't have an opening batsman to go with Cook, Moeen Ali is a round peg in a square hole there, our number three is lucky to be in the team, and Buttler hasn't got runs lately. Root and the captain played splendidly. Top batsmen. Bairstow is playing for his place, he played some nice shots but are they going to go on and get runs tomorrow or will they get out straight away like Misbah did? England will have to bat fourth so if they can't get a lead, they need parity."
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England lost opener Moeen Ali (1) and Ian Bell (4) cheaply, but Alastair Cook (65) and Joe Root (76 not out) steadied the ship and both men appeared on course for a big score until the skipper was caught at leg slip. After a shaky start, Jonny Bairstow then reached 27 not out before bad light brought an early end to the day.
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"This system of having six bowlers in great heat is good as it means you don't have to over-bowl people. The pitch is starting to turn a little, and we even got a bit of a crowd in, it was a few thousand by the end after there was nobody here yesterday."
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Asad Shafiq (82) and Sarfraz Ahmed (32) put on 52 together before the latter played a horrible shot to Moeen Ali and became the first of three victims for the off-spinner. Mark Wood was the pick of the England bowlers though, taking 3-39 in 19.5 overs as Pakistan were eventually skittled for 378.
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Let's recap on the day's happenings then. Pakistan began on 282-4 but soon lost skipper Misbah following some superb bowling from Stuart Broad.
The fast bowler peppered Misbah with some short stuff, then pitched one up and pinned the skipper in front.
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"Very good position for England, 196 runs behind but definitely their day. If I was bowling in this game, I'd want to be bowling from now on. It's a turning pitch, and ideally England need to be 150 past Pakistan. 450-500 would be brilliant - if they make it, they've got every chance of winning this game."
Eng 182-3
England still have lots to do but they've held their own once again today. If they bat properly tomorrow, they may even edge ahead in the game.
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"This is a tactical move from Misbah-ul-Haq. He's trying to bring Imran Khan back, and the umpire's saying 'if you get the seamer on, we're going off'."
Bad light stops play - close of play
The umpires check the light and decide it's time to call it a day. England march off at a very respectable 182-3.
Those who thought England would crumble when Cookie went were wrong. Joe Root is holding things together with 76 not out and Jonny Bairstow has chipped in with 27.
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Steve Lilley: How good is Joe Root?! On the other hand, how worrying is his back? This is becoming a regular thing...
Eng 182-3 (Root 76, Bairstow 27)
Jonny Bairstow, to his credit, looks very comfortable against Zulfiqar - the man whose bowling his fellow Yorkshireman Geoffrey Boycott compared to a carvery earlier. Maiden over easily negotiated.
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"The follow-on has been avoided, which was England's first job."
Eng 182-3 (trail by 196)
This is turning into an excellent partnership which has kept Pakistan at bay - Joe Root sweeping Yasir Shah for four. Top shot.
Eng 178-3 (50 overs)
Joe Root does some stretches between deliveries, trying keep his back pain under control. He then scores the two which bring up the 50 partnership with Jonny Bairstow - a fine effort after a long day in the desert.
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Eng 176-3 (Root 70, Bairstow 27)
Jonny Bairstow continues to punish anything which is pitched up as he clobbers four more through the covers. This has been a real confidence-boosting knock.
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Henry Ashman: How many runs does Root need to overtake Smith as number one Test batsman in the world? I suspect he'll get them at this rate.
Keenos: Joe Root will become England's second best player of all time. After Ali Cook.
Eng 171-3 (trail by 207)
Jonny Bairstow looks round the field as he tries to find scoring areas against Yasir Shah. He decides to play an orthodox shot into the cover region which brings two. Nice shot.
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"It's been slightly Pakistan's day. But it can change, as Pakistan didn't get a big total. England need a small lead to offset having to bat last on a wearing pitch. Test matches ebb and flow, it's about whether you're good enough to take control of those moments."
Eng 168-3 (Root 69, Bairstow 20)
Jonny Bairstow really has taken the sting out of Pakistan and the pressure from himself by whacking both spinners to the boundary. He's fairly comfortable against the left-arm spin of Zulfiqar and gets back in his crease to force two from the final ball of the over.
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Eng 166-3 (trail by 212)
Yasir Shah goes round the wicket to Joe Root, who sticks out the front pad and kicks the ball away. When the batsman does get chance to score, he sweeps a fine edge past the keeper for four. The bowler just puts his hands on his head.
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"Bairstow's had two goes at the left-arm spinner and three at the leggie. For me, four of those were four-balls. It's a learning process, you don't see many leg-spinners these days but he should be able to play the slow left-armer."
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Ben in Windsor: Joe Root quickly turning into a 'Get him early or he goes big' player. Looks more and more a truly world-class player with every innings.
Eng 162-3 (Root 65, Bairstow 18)
Jonny Bairstow's two boundaries seem to have settled him down. He's no longer looking frenetic at the crease as he gets forward well to defend nicely into the off side. Maiden for Babar.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"When the ball's turning away from Bairstow, I think he plays too much on the on side, with too much bottom hand. You've got to be careful. They're setting him up here."
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England 162-3 (44 overs)
Batsmen: Root 65*, Bairstow 18*
Fall of wickets: 5-1 (Moeen 1), 14-2 (Bell 4), 127-3 (Cook 65)
Bowling figures: Imran 10-4-26-1, Riaz 10-0-51-1, Zulfiqar 6-0-29-0, Yasir 14-2-45-1, Malik 4-1-10-0.
Pakistan first innings 378 (Misbah 102, Shafiq 83, Younus 56, Masood 54, Wood 3-39, Moeen 3-108)
Pakistan won toss
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"If your style is to attack, you have to go with the flow. Just make runs."
Eng 161-3
Jonny Bairstow is not going to poke around until the close. He gets down on one knee and paddles four over the infield and to the square leg boundary.
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Karen Lynch: I'm getting worried... I'm finding that I'm agreeing more and more with Geoffrey Boycott!
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"We're going to lose overs again tonight - and the ICC do nothing. Ridiculous. I've been saying for 10 years they should have day-night cricket here, the MCC have been trying it for a few years in Abu Dhabi."
Eng 156-3 (Bairstow 13 off 23)
The shadows are lengthening in the outfield now. I imagine we'll be running out of time soon, which will be a relief for Jonny Bairstow who tries to relieve the pressure by carving Babar over the infield for six. Good shot, and well controlled.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"It's been much more interesting than it was in Abu Dhabi. Pakistan will feel if they can get a wicket, there's a few people they'll feel they can get out. Stokes won't have seen many leg-spinners, then they're into the tail."
Eng 147-3 (trail by 231)
It's like we've been transported back to the days of Mushtaq Ahmed when Jonny Bairstow is batting. The Pakistan fielders don't seem to have much faith in the batsman's skill against the leg-spin of Yasir Shah and are jumping around and shrieking with every ball which beats the bat. The Yorkie looks to be on borrowed time here. He's not looking comfortable at all.
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Eng 147-3 (Root 63, Bairstow 5)
Yes, Joe Root. Wahab over-pitches just a fraction and Joe Root unfurls the most delicious of cover drives to the boundary. Then does it again. This boy is special.
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Matt Crawford: How about Brian Blessed to play Andrew Samson?
James Levy: Surely you'd get Russell Crowe to play Andrew Samson. He's played a maths whizz in A Beautiful Mind...
Eng 139-3 (trail by 239)
Wahab is round the wicket to Joe Root now, the right-hander showing the full face of the bat once again as he defends into the off side. I bet he's the batting coach's pet. Even brings an apple with him to nets.
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Nick: Cook's wicket means Root can claw back some runs in the race to be England's highest 2015 calendar runs scorer.
Thomas Measures: Need one of these two to make a big hundred now. Need a good lead, as batting on the 4th/5th day is going to be very tough.
Eng 139-3 (Root 54, Bairstow 5)
Joe Root is presenting the full face of the bat to Yasir Shah, who is looking to bring first slip into play to the right-hander. Just a single from the over.
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Chris McSweeny: Re: Will Collins [13:20], for the last year (not including this match) Cook 18.8%, Root 18.0%, Bell 7.7% of runs scored by England.
Eng 138-3 (trail by 240)
Jonny Bairstow is chewing gum as he stares down the barrel of Wahab Riaz's thunderbolts. Is that not dangerous? We were never allowed gum in PE at school. Bairstow is lucky not to be caught at mid-wicket when he clips Wahab into the leg side. The ball bounced just before reaching the fielder.
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Christopher Deller: Can only apologise and refrain from further comments in future, lesson learnt! Stand by my comment though, another great knock.
Eng 135-3
Wahab Riaz is brought on post drinks. Expect a very hostile spell.
Especially after Joe Root walks away halfway through the fast bowler's run.
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Eng 135-3 (trail by 243)
I worry for Jonny Bairstow here. He's turned round by a Yasir Shah leg-spinner and he gets a thick outside edge past the waiting slip catcher. There's only so many times you can do that and get away with it.
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
"It's a bit like watching charades out there, trying to pick up a dark ball through the tinted glass of our commentary box. They can play until 5.50pm [14:50 BST] today, but we left at 6pm [15:00 BST] yesterday and it was dark, so I think we'll lose some overs."
50 for Joe Root
Eng 133-3
Copy. Paste. Joe Root scores another half-century for England.
This time it's brought up with a single off the leg-spinner Yasir Shah.
Eng 132-3 (Root 49, Bairstow 4)
There's only a very small part of the ground bathed in natural light now. The small type of patch which a sunbather would seek out as they desperately try to get the last of the rays at the end of a long, hazy day. You know the type... the ones who are balanced precariously next to the pool because it's a better spot for the sun. Two from the over - a single each for Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow.
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Adam Lee: Christopher Deller [13:28] should be fined for match fixing.
He's certainly jinxed Cook there.
Eng 130-3 (trail by 248)
Late swing from Imran Khan and the ball crashes into the pads of Jonny Bairstow. It looks like it's sliding down leg and the umpire agrees. Decent shout though.
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England 130-3 (36 overs)
Batsmen: Root 48*, Bairstow 3*
Fall of wickets: 5-1 (Moeen 1), 14-2 (Bell 4), 127-3 (Cook 65)
Bowling figures: Imran 9-4-24-1, Riaz 8-0-40-1, Zulfiqar 5-0-20-0, Yasir 10-1-35-1, Malik 4-1-10-0.
Pakistan first innings 378 (Misbah 102, Shafiq 83, Younus 56, Masood 54, Wood 3-39, Moeen 3-108)
Pakistan won toss
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Eng 130-3 (Root 48, Bairstow 3)
Jonny Bairstow is off the mark with a three. Now would be a superb time to hit the big score which would silence his critics.
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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Fantastic delivery from Yasir Shah, he's got a bit of bounce, Cook got an edge onto his pad and you can see what that means to Pakistan - it might be that window of opportunity they need tonight. A big breakthrough."
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Cook c sub (Shehzad) b Yasir 65 (Eng 127-3)
Mmm... that makes the next hour or so interesting.
Alastair Cook, who has been so adept at stepping across his stumps and working the leg-spinner into the on-side for a single, flicks a simple catch to the fielder at leg slip.
And sorry about this Christopher Deller (see tweet below), but you're likely to cop some pelters for those who believe in the mockers.
It happens to the best of us. Trust me... I've seen off many a set batsman.
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Christopher Deller: What would we do if we listened to those that called for Cook's head? Surely well on the way to being the best opener of all time.
Eng 126-2 (Cook 65 off 114)
That's good from Imran Khan, who delivers a slower ball which surprises Alastair Cook and almost induces a leading edge. The skipper just puts it out of his mind and carries on doing what he does best. Maiden over.
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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"I think Yasir Shah felt a little bit of pressure on him in those first few overs. It's all been rather rushed, sometimes you've just got to ease yourself into it."
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Will Collins, Yorkshire: What percentage of England's runs have been scored by Cook and Root over the last few Test series? I imagine it is a worryingly high number.
Eng 126-2 (trail by 252)
I've just been doing a little digging and of the 14 Test batsmen to score more than 500 runs in 2015, only David Warner (75.63) and Ben Stokes (72.80) have a better strike-rate in the calendar year than Joe Root's 67.35. The slowest on that list? Alastair Cook (44.43).
Obviously the stats don't tell the full story, since Cook soaked up so many balls in that epic knock in Abu Dhabi last week. Just one from Yasir Shah's latest set of six.
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Ben Hoare: Leonardo DiCaprio to play Andrew Samson in a movie. Brilliant at what he does but never gets the recognition he deserves!
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Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match Special
"Andrew Samson is like a scoring Terminator - we just plug him in. The future is now and Andrew Samson is that man. I wonder who would play him in the film? A bearded Robert De Niro? Or stick a beard on Dustin Hoffman - he was good with numbers in Rain Man."
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Pakistan is the sixth country that Alastair Cook has made 1,000 Test runs against. He joins Kallis, Lara, Jayawardene and Ponting on six, while Dravid and Tendulkar both made 1,000 runs against seven countries."
Eng 125-2 (Cook 64, Root 47)
Frustration for Pakistan when Alastair Cook twice edges Imran Khan through gully for four. Misbah just rubs his brow in disbelief.
The Bell Debate: Three words
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Eng 116-2 (trail by 262)
Yasir Shah, backside jutting out and towel tucked into his trousers, tries to tempt Joe Root outside off stump but the right-hander just works a single into the off side. Alastair Cook then tickles another off his pads to bring up the 100 partnership, off 168 balls.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Alastair Cook now has 45 Test fifties to go with his 28 hundreds. This is the third century partnership that Cook and Root have had together."
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Pakistan are just losing patience. They bowl two or three dot balls and then go for the glory ball. Cook and Root have just fed off that."
50 for Alastair Cook (off 95 balls)
Eng 112-2
Another day, another milestone for Alastair Cook who tickles Imran Khan down to fine leg to bring up his 45th Test half-century.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"It's always been the case for left-handers that they find it easier to play leg-spin because the ball is coming into them."
Eng 106-2 (trail by 272)
Yasir Shah is turning the ball on day two, so I dread to think what he could do on a day five pitch. Alastair Cook gets across to the off stump and flicks the ball into the leg side. That and the sweep shot is his plan against the Pakistan leggie.
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Harry Hopwood: Was marvelling over Cook's batting stats and noticed that he also has one wicket at an average of seven and a strike rate of 18! All rounder?
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Joe Root's strike rate in Test cricket this year is 67.6."
Eng 105-2 (Cook 46, Root 45)
A little earlier on, I noticed England batting coach Mark Ramprakash flicking through images on his digital camera with some of the players.
"Oh look, that's a good one of Rooty in the water park. Get that up on Facebook."
Maiden over, by the way. Good start after tea from Imran Khan.
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Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"There's a competitive mood in the ground, one of competitive tension. It's much better."
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Here come the players for the final session of the day. England captain present, Alastair Cook, marches out alongside England captain future (surely!), Joe Root.
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I feel sorry for Ian Bell. He's clearly a decent cricketer but I agree with those who say he has never achieved his full potential.
If you had to use three words to describe Ian Bell's career, what would they be?
The Bell Debate
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Airport Guy: Are the ECB secretly just waiting on Ian Bell to fall on his sword and retire so they don't look like the bad guys here?
Bertie: Ian Bell is this generation's Graeme Hick. Great talent, but could never quite get the consistency.
Jack Beecroft: Bell has to go to give a young lad a chance he's had a long career and is taking the opportunity away from others, like Taylor.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Joe Root spreads the field with the different shots he plays and I think that's inspiring Alastair Cook to improve his strike-rate too."
Working the angles
Look at Joe Root's wagon wheel. Is there anywhere on the ground he can't score runs?
Elsewhere in the world of cricket
TMS have just been playing an emotional clip of Sir Garfield Sobers bemoaning the decline of his beloved West Indies.
The wickets are still tumbling as his modern-day successors take on Sri Lanka in Colombo - late on day two, Sri Lanka are 55-2 in their second innings, leading West Indies by 92 after bowling the tourists out for 163 earlier.
And in Canberra, it's no surprise that New Zealand have beaten the Prime Minister's XI by 102 runs at the start of their tour of Australia. Apart from Ryan Carters (74) and Adam Voges (55), none of the Aussies auditioning for a Test place passed 17.
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Thanks James. Good session that, wasn't it?
We had wickets, runs, excellent fast bowling from Wahab... and carvery chat.
I've got to admit, I love the idea of a help yourself carvery as Geoffrey Boycott suggested.
"Are you OK, sir?" "Yes, thanks. I'm just waiting for another turkey to be put out. The bloke in front of me took the entire bird back to his table with him."
I say that in jest, but I did see a lady do that with a pizza once in America. Scandalous.
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It's time for me to bid you adieu - I'm off for lunch at the carvery. Marc Higginson will take you through the rest of the day's proceedings...
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Calum, Newcastle: Surely James Taylor has to come into consideration for the next Test at three. Scored runs there internationally in ODIs. England's selection policy is a shambles at the moment.
Tim in Marlow: I hate to question Sir Geoffrey but his comment on Moeen Ali is a load of rhubarb. How can he moan about Adam Lyth only being given seven Tests, then in the next sentence condemn Moeen as an opener after just three innings?
Tea interval
Time for tea - and if you've been listening to TMS's reminiscences about Fred Trueman's appearance on Dad's Army, here it is.
Tea-time report
So, this Test really is in the melting pot as we reach tea on the second day.
After losing Moeen Ali - caught at short leg - and Ian Bell - caught behind - England have steadied themselves well.
Joe Root is his usual busy self, with his captain Alastair Cook happy to sit in the right-hander's slipstream.
If England can get through to the close without losing more than one more wicket, they will feel they can post a first-innings lead.
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Richard, Berkshire: Very interesting stat from Andrew at 11:27. If Cook has 9,600 Test runs and has only just reached 9,030 as an opener, where (or rather when) have the other 500 odd runs come from?
In 2006, he batted the whole summer at number three, with Trescothick and Strauss opening. In seven Tests at three, Cook averages 52.54.
Tea scorecard
England 105-2 (28 overs)
Batsmen: Cook 46*, Root 45*
Fall of wickets: 5-1 (Moeen 1), 14-2 (Bell 4)
Bowling figures: Imran 5-2-9-1, Riaz 8-0-40-1, Zulfiqar 5-0-20-0, Yasir 6-1-25-0, Malik 4-1-10-0.
Pakistan first innings 378 (Misbah 102, Shafiq 83, Younus 56, Masood 54, Wood 3-39, Moeen 3-108)
Pakistan won toss
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"It's been a good session for England. Ian Bell continues his lean run but Moeen Ali was unfortunate. Alastair Cook has carried on his good form and Joe Root always looks the part now. He looks like a grown-up in the middle. A real man. He's become world-class."
Tea interval
Eng 105-2
Root clips a single off Wahab, and that will be tea. A pretty even session, with England rebuilding very nicely after the loss of two early wickets.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"What odds would you get on Alastair Cook bringing up his 50 before tea by dancing down the track and planting Wahab into the stands for six?"
The Carvery Debate
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David, Windsor: Boycs at carvery: "No, no lad! You don't carve like that, too much bottom hand. My mum could do better with a stick of rhubarb!"
Geoff H: Surely if you're The Cook you can help yourself at The Carvery - not sure about The Root though.
Josh, Thaxted: Perfect metaphor as at the carveries I have been to, you help yourself to the accompaniments. Perfectly adequate food but the real test is the select meat you get. (Like runs against first-class bowlers).
Eng 104-2 (trail by 274)
Malik hurries through an over, Cook not biting. Maiden. Time for one more before tea, I reckon.
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Kev Lennon: I'd go for Cook, Root, a keeper then eight frontline bowlers. More attacking & we only have two decent batsmen anyway.
Mark O'Neill: About England's long batting order. Not sure I trust anyone below Root in the order against a quality spinner. Important stand!
Eng 104-2 (Cook 46, Root 44)
Wahab is taking the pitch out of the equation - he's alternating between the short ball dug in halfway down and the toe-crushing yorker. A delivery of the former variety lacks the requisite venom and Cook swivels on it and puts it away behind square. Class.
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
"It was a superb delivery from Wahab. It swung an awful lot."
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Yes, indeed Cook is safe, a clear inside edge before the ball struck him on the pads. The ball ran away past the wicket-keeper for four, incidentally.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Alastair Cook has hit his foot with his bat, just after hitting the ball. That's what Pakistan heard."
Umpire review
Now then, now then! Wahab Riaz has got a yorker to duck back in and hit Alastair Cook on the pad. The umpires signals runs, so did he hit it before it hit his pad? Pakistan want a second look...
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Nigel, Leeds: A top six of Cook, Compton, Taylor, Hildreth, Root, Bairstow looks a more solid top order to me. A good starting point at any rate.
Sam, Manchester: I think Ian Bell will retire if he doesn't get any substantial runs in this series. If he can't get any runs here then I wouldn't fancy his chances in South Africa vs Steyn & co. For the SA Tests I'd take out Bell & Rashid and put in Hales (opening) & Taylor/Vince.
Eng 95-2
Root just shifting nicely through the gears here - Malik tosses one up and the youngster gets down one knee and smashes him through the covers for four.
The Bell Debate
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Adam: The people who support Ian Bell seem to be the type of people who can't understand why Gary Lineker isn't still getting picked up front for England.
Simon, Belfast: All those saying Bell being a rubbish batter should mean he should be dropped are forgetting that the whole KP saga showed us that being good at batting isn't that important when it comes to being selected and what matters most is helping team morale. Presumably Bell is great for the dressing room and that justifies his selection regardless of how rubbish his batting is.
Eng 89-2 (trail by 289)
Wahab is back. Root drives wide of mid-off for a single. About ten minutes left until tea - can this England pair survive through to the interval?
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Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match Special
"There are a lot of gaps in the field and England are happy to exploit them."
Eng 88-2 (Cook 36, Root 38)
Shoaib Malik rattles through another over. Root adds a single to the total.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Yasir Shah will be brilliant against the tail - he spins it a lot and pushes it through quite fast. It wouldn't give a tailender time to adjust and they certainly wouldn't pick his googly. I'd wager a lot of his wickets are taken lower down the order."
Of Yasir's 61 Test wickets, 40 have been players batting in the top seven
Eng 87-2 (Yasir 6-1-25-0)
Oh, hello there! Cook gets a big stride in and heaves Yasir out towards the leg-side boundary for a one-bounce four. England, whisper it quietly, have played the leggie well so far.
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Jeff Hitchings: Cook and Root are for England what Younus and Misbah are for Pakistan. Any big score will be built around one or both of them.
Eng 82-2 (trail by 296)
Colleagues now comparing notes on their favourite local carveries. Easily distracted. Shoaib Malik enters the attack, and is milked for a few singles by Cook and Root.
Scorecard update
England 79-2 (20 overs)
Batsmen: Cook 31*, Root 34*
Fall of wickets: 5-1 (Moeen 1), 14-2 (Bell 4)
Bowling figures: Imran 5-2-9-1, Riaz 5-0-29-1, Zulfiqar 5-0-20-0, Yasir 5-1-20-0.
Pakistan first innings 378 (Misbah 102, Shafiq 83, Younus 56, Masood 54, Wood 3-39, Moeen 3-108)
Pakistan won toss
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Eng 79-2 (Cook 34, Root 31)
Some debate on the sport desk as to the accuracy of that metaphor from Boycott. Are you allowed to help yourself at the carvery? Is that not poor form? You can't just go and carve yourself a few slices of beef, can you? Pretty sure that would attract a few stern looks from the staff. Still, I suppose if anyone can get away with it Geoffrey can. Cook chops Yasir for a couple in front of square.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"Babar is a buffet bowler, it's like when you go to a carvery - help yourself."
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Evan Samuel: Like the England attitude right now, looking to score rather than just defend.
Eng 77-2
Goodness gracious, Alastair Cook has had a huge slice of luck here. He gets himself into a dreadful tangle trying to sweep Zulfiqar and the ball trickles back onto the stumps, but does not dislodge the bails. How lucky is that? Zulfiqar can't believe it. Cook, undaunted, sweeps again, and this time he connects for a single.
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Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"Joe Root just isn't missing any scoring opportunities. He's in imperious touch."
Eng 74-2 (trail by 304)
More yelps from Yasir as he gets Root shuffling back to one and almost sneaks it past the bat. He has a wonderfully expressive face - he seems to go through more different emotions than a Brazilian soap opera character in the course of one slow-motion replay of a thwarted appeal. He's still not quite finding a consistent line though, and that allows Joe Root to pocket a couple of boundaries.
Azhar back for Pakistan
Some good news for Pakistan fans, courtesy of Cricinfo's Umar Kalson.
Eng 64-2 (Cook 26, Root 24)
Now now Steve, that sort of subversive comedy is our job. Root brings up the 50 partnership for this pair with a push into the covers. It's been a good rebuilding job by these two - now can they kick on and get planning permission for the extension?
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Steve Lilley: It's funny, Pakistan didn't get through their overs anywhere near this quickly the last time they bowled...
Eng 63-2
Ooh, Yasir Shah is getting it to rip here. Loud yells of excitement as he gets one to spin back sharply into Joe Root's pads, but that pitched well outside leg.
The Bell Debate
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Tim Stirke: Those asking for Bell to be dropped are probably the same people asking for Cook to be dropped not so long ago, look at him now.
Ian Harrison: People are forgetting that it's not just Bell's batting that is letting the team down. He's also dropping expensive catches. It shouldn't even be a case of Bell being dropped. He should have enough self-awareness to retire from Test cricket.
Liam Quinn: Ian Bell has won FIVE Ashes series. Give it a rest. He's one of the best players to ever pull on an England shirt.
Eng 58-2 (trail by 320)
Zulfiqar, however, has gone for the slightly iconoclastic single sweatband on the left wrist. A man unafraid to defy convention. Cook defies convention with a bold stroke, stepping out of his crease and slogging Zulfiqar with the spin over cow corner.
The Bell Debate
Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"I would leave him out. You can't always live in the past. When you're a new player, they don't always know if you can do it. Look at young Lyth from Yorkshire, they gave him five Tests*. You have to find a settled batting unit. Ian Bell has had 20 innings where he averages 19. England need to find a better opening batsman than Moeen Ali too, they need their top six to be settled."
*in fact, Lyth played seven Tests
Eng 53-2 (Cook 21, Root 18)
Has there been some sort of style memo sent round the Pakistan bowlers prior to play? Yasir, Imran Khan and Wahab have all gone for the double sweatband look, one on each arm. Maiden from Yasir to start us off after drinks.
Remembering WG
Drinks break
Eng 53-2
Zulfiqar drops short and Root rocks onto his back foot and larrups him through mid-on. Time for drinks, with this partnership just beginning to get established.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Alastair Cook has now overtaken Graeme Smith (9,030) in the list of most Test runs scored as an opener. Only Sunil Gavaskar (9,607) is now above him."
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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Yasir starts his run-up like Shane Warne, but he's more explosive at the crease. He drives through a little bit whereas Warne would hold himself back a bit."
Eng 47-2 (trail by 331)
Here we go then - Yasir Shah, a man who has had perhaps more column inches lavished on him than anyone else before this series, is about to have his first bowl. Ooh, and immediately he almost traps Alastair Cook. Sharp spin, Cook misses it playing across his pads, the ball just doing too much.
Scorecard update
England 44-2 (11 overs)
Batsmen: Cook 20*, Root 10*
Fall of wickets: 5-1 (Moeen 1), 14-2 (Bell 4)
Bowling figures: Imran 5-2-9-1, Riaz 5-0-29-1, Zulfiqar 1-0-5-0.
Pakistan first innings 378 (Misbah 102, Shafiq 83, Younus 56, Masood 54, Wood 3-39, Moeen 3-108)
Pakistan won toss
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Eng 44-2 (Cook 20, Root 10)
Time for a bit of tweak - but it's not Yasir Shah just yet, instead we're going to see what Zulfiqar Babar can do with the newish nut. Root tickles a single behind square, before Cook gets the sweep out and collects a boundary.
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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"If there's a fault of Joe Root, it's that he likes to punch a straight ball through the covers. Against somebody with extra pace, like Wahab, that can be dangerous."
The Bell Debate
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Jack Byrne: Wonder whether James Taylor will get the 50 odd chances that Ian Bell got to score some runs?
Fenners: Who else has been lucky enough to get as many chances as Bell? Compton, Carberry, Robson, Lyth all gone after a handful of games.
Michael Thomas: The amount of negativity on #bbccricket from the public around every English wicket is just painful. Constantly fickle.
Eng 39-2
This is a bit saucy from Wahab - Joe Root is one of the form batsmen in world cricket and he's causing him all sorts of bother here. He gets the ball to rear up off the track again and Root ends up playing it with his chest. Unorthodox. The next ball bounces even higher and comfortably beats the despairing leap of Sarfraz. Five wides.
The Bell Debate
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Simon Goodall: What hold does Ian Bell have over the selectors? The guy is utterly useless.
Aaron Hill: Surely Ian Bell has had his time? Great career/player but look to the future! Open with Hales, move Moeen to three.
Max Baggins-Craig: Following Bell's poor performance of late, do we actually have any talent & passion? - besides Cook that is - c'mon Eng get a grip.
Eng 29-2 (trail by 349)
Ian Bell, by the way, is averaging just 19 in his last 20 Test innings, with 14 scores of less than 15 in that time. Those numbers ain't pretty. Cook stonewalls an over from Imran.
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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Wahab was the best bowler at Abu Dhabi - he has the ability to rush the batsmen even on a placid pitch. This game looks like it's got a result in it so England need to dig in and get as many runs as they can."
The Bell Debate
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portobellodisco: Always been a fan of Bell. Fantastic player. But I think his time may well be coming to an end. He probably knows it sadly.
Dan Hyner: I feel sorry for Bell - class batsman but seems to have just gone. Might be one of his last tours but shouldn't be his legacy.
Jack Waldis: Is it any wonder Bell looks short of confidence if people are on his back every time he doesn't make a score these days?
Eng 29-2 (Wahab 4-0-19-1)
Root still yet to get off the mark, and Wahab cranks up the Unease-ometer another couple of notches by wanging down a fearsome bouncer that gets the Yorkshire batsman ducking. And then another short ball, this one rears on him and pins him on the glove but Root just about manages to keep it down and collects his first run. A little smile from Joe, the young tyro relishing the heat of battle.
The over ends with another moral victory for Wahab as he induces a top edge from Root that flies over the keeper and trickles away to the boundary. Good contest here.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Ian Bell's 'inner chimp' is seeing the slips as a danger. Alastair Cook, who is in form, is seeing big gaps - like through mid-wicket. That's because his mind is clear. He's not bothered about four slips being there."
The Bell Debate
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Kieran Dale: Regarding Ian Bell, at what point does backing the right horse becoming flogging a dead one?
Jonathan Evans: Sadly I can hear the Bell tolling for Ian. Time to take a blow son.
Mark Thomas: Bell gets picked despite numerous failures, fails again, and in other news the sky is blue.
Wickets tumble in Colombo
The second Test in Colombo is moving on apace - West Indies have been bowled out for 163 at tea on day two, after they had dismissed Sri Lanka for 200 yesterday. A three-day Test on the cards?
Eng 21-2
Cook continues to look in fine fettle, creaming an absolutely sensational drive off Imran. Don't bother chasing that. Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka...
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Alastair Cook now has more than 1,000 runs against Pakistan - the only other Englishman to do so is David Gower."
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Ian Bell's technique just isn't looking after him, at all. If you take Edgbaston last summer out of it, when he smashed a few at number three, it's a while since we've felt comfortable about Bell. Tim Southee had him with little outswingers, so did the Australians and now it's happening against Pakistan. He has to iron out his technical problems."
Dropped catch
Eng 17-2 (Cook 10, Root 0)
Time to "bin off" Lord Bellington? I've rarely heard it phrased more callously, Bowser. But you can't deny that England's number three is under a bit of pressure: that weary shake of the head and slow, mournful trudge back to the pavilion is becoming an uncomfortably familiar sight. Cook, who looks in great touch, connects nicely with a pull shot and gets two.
Oh goodness, England could be three down! It's the boy Root who gets a life, falling into a Pakistan's trap and pulling a ball straight to the man cunningly stationed at short backward square leg. The fielder gets a hand to it but can't hang on. Very tough chance, but technically a drop.
The Bell Debate returns...
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Bowser: Time to bin off Ian Bell. He's gone. Just can't hack it anymore.
Stuart Mitchell: Can we hang Bell out to dry? He needs to go, looks shot of confidence. Bring in James Taylor.
Jonathan France: Can't help feeling the this could be Bell's last tour if he doesn't get runs. Mentally I think he's half gone already.
Eng 14-2 (trail by 364)
Luckily, the next man in is Joe Root, a man who during the Ashes became so used to coming in in a crisis that rumour has it David Cameron asked him to sit in on COBRA meetings. He immediately has to contend with a fired-up Imran, who chucks the ball back at Root's toes when the batsman plays a forward defensive. Spicy.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Again, it's down to the lack of balance on the front foot. He was dangling his bat away from his pad. He's opened the blade and when he's defending the ball, he's doing it with the face open. For a long time now, I don't feel that Ian Bell has any sort of control, certainly in the first 20 balls of his innings."
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Bell c Sarfraz b Imran Khan 4 (Eng 14-2)
Oh crumbs. Ian Bell was looking about as comfortable as a pair of hessian underpants out there and now he's gone. Beauty from Imran, full with just a hint of away-nibble, and Bell is drawn into a hesitant push and gets an edge. England in a bit of a pickle here.
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What We Learnt Today: Can Cook get to 10,000 runs in this innings?
He started on 9,593 so needs a record-breaking 407...
Eng 14-1 (Cook 7, Bell 4)
Nice timing from Cook, riding the bounce and whipping the ball off his thigh-pad, the ball whistling away to the rope. Wahab is bowling with real pace and he forces Bell into a mistake, just feeling for one outside off and lucky not to get a feather on it. Bell hangs his head in remorse.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Seven wickets have fallen today. It took four days for that to happen in Abu Dhabi."
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Patch Tombstone: Moeen is not an opener... can we stop this madness?
Callum Johnstone: Do we have any batsmen in England who can actually open sensibly (forgetting Cook at the other end obviously!)
Eng 8-1 (trail by 370)
Well, what do we make of that from Moeen Ali? We know he's the type of opener who is going to play a few shots and look to get the scoreboard ticking, but was that shot just a little too reckless so early in the innings? Bell's not trying anything that risky: just a nudge off his toes for two.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"We keep beating the drum, but this is the perfect time to bat. One of the top four needs to play a long innings. If you leave it to numbers five, six and seven then it gets difficult for them with the spinners on and men around the bat."
Eng 6-1
Ian Bell joins Alastair Cook at the crease, and England's veteran batsmen have a rebuilding job on their hands. On second look, Moeen Ali didn't hit that shot quite as cleanly as it first appeared - the bat twisted in his hand as he played the stroke. Still a terrific snaffle from Masood though.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"The first ball Wahab Riaz has got straight and Moeen's out. The batsman hit it properly and it flew to short leg who took a skilful catch."
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Moeen c Masood b Wahab 1 (Eng 5-1)
Oh dear. That's not the start that England wanted. After Jonny Bairstow's heroics yesterday, it's another ripper from the short-leg fieldsman - this time it's Shan Masood under the helmet who shows lightning reflexes to pluck a Moeen Ali leg glance - off the full face of the bat - out of the sky.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Stephen Green: Can I add the fantastic former Test cricketer (and ICC hall of fame member) Enid Bakewell to the list. Enid is still playing at 74 for Purley Redoubtables women's cricket team promoting the game to all newcomers.
This season Enid was batting for the Redoubtables in the Southern Women's Cricket League with my daughter who was 11 at the time - has there been a wider gap in ages for a batting partnership?
You can read more about Enid in this feature on the website.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Imran Khan reminds me of Umar Gul. He tries to shape it into the left-handers with the new ball and he can do a bit with the older ball."
Eng 4-0 (Cook 2, Moeen 1)
Imran Khan may not have scored a run in seven Test matches, but he can certainly do a bit with the ball - he looked impressive in the first Test. Cook is away with that familiar, reassuring tuck off the hips. Imran gets a bit of late movement into Moeen's pads with his final delivery but Moeen jams his bat down just in time and he too is off the mark.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I'd much prefer to be in Pakistan's position. They have runs on the board, the pitch is wearing and they have Yasir Shah in their attack."
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The opening partnership of Moeen and Cook, a delicious mix of bushy beard and magical wrists and sqaure jawline and redoubtable high elbow, is in the middle, and Imran Khan has the cherry. Here we go...
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Yasir Shah's been fizzing them down to Grant Flower, the Pakistan batting coach, on the outfield and Shoaib Malik's been having a twirl too. I'm not sure how much of the Pakistan seamers we'll see. 378 is still a very competitive total."
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Ben in Windsor: Time for some people other than Cook and Root to step up I feel. Can't be relying on these two ALL the time. Decent scores from Mo, Bell and Bairstow please. JT pushing hard for a place and get him in if Bell or Bairstow can't get a big one again on what looks like a belting pitch still.
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What do we reckon this afternoon session will bring then? More success for the new-look opening partnership of Alastair Cook and Moeen Ali, who put on a century stand in their first match at the top of the order last week? Or will the Pakistani bowlers, including the fiery Wahab Riaz and the wily leg-spinner Yasir Shah, put England in a spot of bother?
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Zulfiqar Babar's decision to review his lbw has provoked some debate...
Bryony Lever: To be fair, if your choice was between maybe wasting a review or leaving the runscoring to a man [Imran Khan] who does not have any Test runs...
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Kate in Sydney: How about Dustin Fletcher? Just retired at the age of 40 after playing 400 AFL games over 23 years.
Al Korinek: Gooch has to be up there. Got better with age and averaging 58 as captain in later years.
Thomas Moffatt, Onchan, Isle of Man: John MaGowan, darts player from Northern Ireland and regular on the PDC tour between 2002 and 2011 made his World Championship debut in the PDC's 2009 edition at the tender age of 67 reaching the second round where he lost to 58-year-old Dennis Priestley. John retired in 2011 after suffering a hip injury.
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Thank you Higgy. I'm not sure my seating activities have ever been broadcast to quite such a wide audience. But yes, I can confirm that I am now ensconced in the hotseat and raring to go.
As my colleague says, we're intriguingly poised in this match after a good-but-not-great score from Pakistan in the first innings, and this next session could go a long way towards deciding the outcome of this Test match.
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James Gheerbrant has just sat in the chair beside me, ready to take the live text reins for the afternoon session.
Will England pile them on? Or will Yasir Shah become the latest leggie to destroy English hopes?
James is here to guide you through it all. I'll see you later.
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Luke Swales: To bowl Pakistan out for less than 400 is a great effort by England's bowlers.
Richard Mills: 96-6 this morning - great effort by the England bowlers. Now for another Cookie anchor-drop - Come on England!
Greg Fowler: This Pakistan tail reminds me of the Giddins, Mullally, Malcolm & Tufnell days.
Remembering WG Grace
Until then, there's an excellent documentary remembering WG Grace on TMS. Listen at the top of this page or via BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
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Just joining us and wondering why there's no cricket? Well, after bowling out Pakistan just before lunch this morning, England will begin their reply to the hosts' 378 all out after an extended lunch break because of Friday prayers. We're due to get back under way around 10:30 BST.
What's happened here then?
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Fenners: Irrespective of how we bat, bowling them out for under 400 is a fine effort. Six-man attack is much more balanced now with Rashid.
That awkward moment when...
What made a half-naked Phil Tufnell red-faced? Find out in our latest Pint-Sized TMS offering.
Elsewhere in the world of cricket...
Wickets have continued to fall at the P Sara Oval in Colombo where, having bowled Sri Lanka out for 200 on day one, West Indies are already 105-6 with new Test captain Jason Holder at the crease. Seamer Dhammika Prasad has four wickets.
Meanwhile, New Zealand's tour of Australia has begun with the traditional Prime Minister's XI match at Canberra. The Kiwis made 307-8 from their 50 overs, mainly thanks to an opening stand of 196 by Martin Guptill (94) and Tom Latham (131).
In reply, the PM's XI are 32-3 with captain Mike Hussey leading a rearguard action. There may be Aussie Test batting spots up for grabs, but Cameron Bancroft (0), Usman Khawaja (1) and Joe Burns (5) have all failed their audition.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Phoon, Edinburgh: Roberto Duran. 120 professional fights in 5 decades, only retired by a car crash.
Matt from Dorchester: We (Martinstown CC) have a Second XI bowler who is playing his 60th season - and picked up the club's bowler of the year last season - stalwart!
Steve, Rugby: Jane Asher, masters swimmer aged 84. Holds over 50 world records, her time for 50m free equates to three seconds faster than Fran Halsall's British record.
Remembering WG
WG Grace, speaking in his memoirs, noted that batsmen would not hit a bowler if he was straight - therefore all of the fielders were close and runs were hard to come by. So he decided to hit over the top. Not in a slogging way, but in a calculated way. A pioneer.
Tune into TMS if you want to hear more on the great man, in this extended lunch break.
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
"97-6 this morning. Game moving on. Could move on a bit quicker than Abu Dhabi from here. Mind you, that's not saying a lot."
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Evan Samuel: Super session for England - contributions from everyone. Wicket looks to be turning, though. Won't be easy.
Andy Donley: Pakistan have a tail like a Manx cat. Nonexistent.
Andy Harris Cricket: Now Sehwag has retired, they should bring the runner rule back. He was the chief abuser of the rule.
Remembering WG
Piers Morgan, former editor of the Daily Mirror and lifelong cricket enthusiast, once nominated WG Grace as the greatest English player of all time.
"Boxing gave us Muhammad Ali, football you would have Pele, and in cricket Grace was the greatest. Botham rolled into Flintoff rolled into John Bull," Morgan told BBC Radio 4's Great Lives in 2006.
"He had everything. He was physically imposing, he was comfortably the best player of his generation, if not all time.
"He was there when cricket became not just a village green pastime but became a proper international sport and it needed an iconic figure to make that transition work and to bring the English public with him and Grace did that magnificently."
Remembering WG
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Edward Bates: Don't forget that WG Grace also played God in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Indeed - his face and beard were used in an animation when King Arthur and the knights are sent on their quest.
Remembering WG
Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"He was the first iconic cricketer, an absolute star. The gates at Lord's - the iconic place of world cricket - are named after him."
Morning report
So a good session for England, who rattled through Pakistan's lower order and will be pretty pleased to have restricted the hosts to a total of 378.
The session started just as the afternoon and evening session did yesterday - with an immediate wicket as Stuart Broad brilliantly set up centurion Misbah for an lbw.
After that England were frustrated by some diligent batting from Asad Shafiq and the more counter-attacking Sarfraz Ahmed, but they got the breakthrough just after the drinks break when Sarfraz picked out James Anderson off the bowling of Moeen Ali.
England then mopped up the tail, with Adil Rashid taking his first first-innings Test wicket and Mark Wood finishing strongly with two wickets.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"England know that this wicket is flat. That's the best I've seen Moeen Ali bowl for about 18 months. He was getting real drift and shape and turn."
End-of-innings scorecard
Pakistan 378 all out (118.5 overs) - won toss
Batsman: Imran 0*
Fall of wickets: 51-1 (Hafeez 19), 58-2 (Malik 2), 85-3 (Masood 54), 178-4 (Younus 56), 282-5 (Misbah 102), 334-6 (Sarfraz 32), 342-7 (Riaz 6), 370-8 (Yasir 16), 377-9 (Zulfiqar 3), 178-10 (Shafiq 83)
Bowling figures: Anderson 20-5-40-1, Broad 17-4-48-1, Moeen 25-3-108-3, Wood 19.5-7-39-3, Stokes 17-3-55-1, Rashid 20-1-84-1.
Full scorecard
Remembering WG
BBC Radio Test Match Special
TMS will shortly be discussing the life and times of WG Grace.
Want to know more about the great man? Read Nabil Hassan's excellent feature here.
Lunch
Pak 378 all out
So, the players will now take lunch - which will be at least an hour because of Friday prayers.
And Imran Khan is still without a Test run.
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Shafiq c Root b Wood 83 (Pak 378 all out)
That's it, folks! Asad Shafiq plays an ugly heave into the leg side and picks out Joe Root at short mid-wicket. Another victim for Mark Wood and England march off knowing they are in this game.
Now for the skipper to go big. A daddy hundred please, Cookie.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Mike, Liverpool: Geoffrey Boycott playing Test cricket at 107 years old and commentating at 313. Hats off to Geoff!
Matt: JR Hartley, still fly fishing at 103.
Pak 378-9
Asad Shafiq is going to battle on. But he's struggling. Maybe he wants to help Imran Khan get a first Test run?
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"The ball has basically hit him on the kneecap, it's missed the pad because of the angle of his back leg. He's completely wiped out here."
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Richard Parfitt: Ducking a ball that's hitting half way up leg stump. Not quite as the MCC manual would advise.
Aaron Mifflin: This Pakistan team seem determined to review everything! Mad or playing for time already?
Pak 378-9
Asad Shafiq is in obvious discomfort. I would not be surprised if he doesn't bat on - he can't have a runner, remember.
Pak 378-9
Asad Shafiq is down on the ground, in obvious pain. A Mark Wood delivery hit him on the inside of his leg at 85mph. Like a heat-seeking missile. Ouch.
But not out.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"There's a certain romanticism about the way that Pakistan play their cricket. Their tail-enders don't hang around and try to eke out every run, they bat like tail-enders on the village green."
Pak 378-9
Imran is still there! Adil Rashid lofts one up and the number 11 smashes it back to mid-on, where the ball lands just short of the fielder.
Pak 378-9
Here we go then. Imran Khan is on strike.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Imran Khan was the first player to play four Tests without scoring a run. He's now in his seventh."
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Malcolm Ellis: Sir Stanley Matthews was playing top flight football up to the age of 53. A true legend.
Tattz in Oldbury: Greatest ever English sportsperson who defied age? Got to be Peter Shilton.
Gerard in London: The Klitschkos aren't exactly young...
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Shafiq has looked wonderful in this innings. He's very compact - all his movements are small - and his timing is good. He's a lovely man to watch bat."
Pak 377-9
Asad Shafiq needs 18 runs for a century, but he's not taking them in singles. He refuses to put Imran Khan on strike.
He'll never score a run at the non-striker's end.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"He's actually ducked it, very much like Chris Read against Chris Cairns at Lord's in 1999. He put his hand in front of his face in shame."
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Babar lbw b Wood 3 (Pak 377-9)
They'll laugh about that review in the England dressing room later.
Enter Pakistan number 11 Imran Khan. A man who has not scored a run in seven Tests.
Review
Pak 377-8
Oh my days... that's the worst review I've ever seen. Babar thinks Mark Wood is going to bowl a bouncer but it's a normal, full-length delivery and the ball hits him on the pad. Plumb. Plumber than a plum. But the batsman reviews.
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Adam Gilbert: Enjoying the timings of this tour. Few overs with morning brew, lunch as I get to office, then 2 til 5 hurriedly do a day's work.
Mike Bell: Suggest Jonathan France (08.42), just takes short lavatory trips to generate wickets. If at work, can count as time off in loo.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Rashid just pitched one on middle and leg that turned six inches past the off stump. That's a good sign for Pakistan's spinners."
Pak 375-8 (Shafiq 81 off 163)
Adil Rashid has got Zulfiqar on toast here - bowling a perfect leggie which beats the outside edge. The tailender is happy to get to the other end when he tickles three down to fine leg. One good ball followed by one bad ball.
The over ends with two more rippers - the second of which Babar plays an awful swish at.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Adam Wrong: Kimiko Date Krumm and Martina Navratilova both regularly turn back the years.
Mark Stevens: Reg Harris, track cyclist of the 40s and 50s, made a 1974 comeback to win the British title aged 54.
Scorecard update
Pakistan 371-8 (115 overs) - won toss
Batsmen: Shafiq 79*, Zulfiqar 0*
Fall of wickets: 51-1 (Hafeez 19), 58-2 (Malik 2), 85-3 (Masood 54), 178-4 (Younus 56), 282-5 (Misbah 102), 334-6 (Sarfraz 32), 342-7 (Riaz 6), 370-8 (Yasir 16)
Bowling figures: Anderson 20-5-40-1, Broad 17-4-48-1, Moeen 25-3-108-3, Wood 18-7-38-1, Stokes 17-3-55-1, Rashid 18-1-78-1.
Full scorecard
Pak 371-8 (Wood 18-7-38-1)
Mark Wood looks like a normal bloke, acts like a normal bloke but there's nothing normal about his bowling.
Asad Shafiq has look immovable this morning, but Wood almost gets him with an inswinging yorker at 90mph. The holy grail of deliveries for a fast bowler. If he straightens up, England won't need a wrecking ball to dislodge Shafiq.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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YU HIMM FUNG: George Foreman - the oldest heavyweight champion of the world at 45 years old.
James Dixon: How about Andy Sandham - the first Test triple centurion at the grand old age of 39.
Pak 370-8
Mark Wood returns to the bowling attack, with Pakistan number 10 Zulfiqar in his sights.
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Dave in Walthamstow: SF Barnes was taking wickets for England in his 50s, wasn't he?
Steve, Sheffield: Geoffrey's Mum or Auntie? Still racking up the runs at a ripe old age according to the great man.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"A lovely little tempter just outside off stump. A nice fullish length and Yasir was suckered. Beautifully bowled, you could have caught that in my mum's pinny."
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Yasir c Stokes b Rashid 16 (Pak 370-8)
That's nice. Very nice.
Adil Rashid gets rid of his fellow leggie - tossing one up and inducing a flashing edge to Ben Stokes at first slip. Done him like a kipper.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Matt Berry: Can't believe nobody has mentioned Francesco Totti, 39 years old and still playing at the top level for the same club. Legend.
James Dixon: How about Sam Snead? Oldest PGA Tour winner at 52, also 10 years after his last win he came third in the US PGA aged 62.
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Pak 369-7 (Shafiq 77, Yasir 16)
Asad Shafiq is a master of his craft. He makes even a single look classy, as he dances down the track and waits for the ball to dip before working it into the leg side for a single. A man totally at ease with the game.
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Mungo Fawcett: Gary Keedy must be up there at 40 still regularly returning figures along the lines of 27 overs, 13 maidens, 2-53. Or something similar.
Chris Higginbottom: Our League president played league cricket in eight different decades, making his debut in the 1940s and retiring in about 2011.
Pak 366-7 (Rashid 17-1-77-0)
Is Moeen something of an unsung hero? We've ditched the 'part-time' spinner tag now, at least.
There's no reason why he can't score 3,000 Test runs and take 250 wickets. A big ask, but he's capable and young enough.
Adil Rashid is brought on to try and lop the tail from the Pakistan innings. Three from the over.
How's stat?!
Remembering WG
There's also a feature you can read about WG's life and impact on cricket.
Pak 363-7 (Moeen 24-3-105-3)
Moeen is getting his rewards for some hard yards on the first day. He's got a chance of taking a five-for now.
Not that Yasir Shah is thinking this way as he drives four square of the wicket. Lovely shot.
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Jonathan France: Just popped to the loo & England pick up two wickets. No sure I can stay in here all day though!
Pak 356-7 (Shafiq 70, Yasir 10)
In fact, Yasir is having a good time out there. After that unconvincing four over the keeper's head, he flicks Ben Stokes through square leg for another boundary.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Nikki Holmes (pistol shooter for Jersey at the Commonwealth Games): As a pistol shooter may I mention Mick Gault, 61. Bronze @ Glasgow 2014, six Commonwealth Games, 18 medals. Still shooting!
Pak 352-7
Yaasir Shah's top score in first-class cricket is 71, so he's no mug with the willow. He rides a couple of Ben Stokes bouncers well, before going after one and top-edging the ball over the keeper for four. Here's another who isn't staying for an evening meal.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"That's Moeen Ali's 50th Test wicket, one year and 133 days after his debut. Only three England spinners have reached the milestone quicker: Roy Tattersall, Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann."
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Neil Schofield: There is only one sportsman and that's Cafu - he must be about 100 now!
Cote d'Azur property: Valentino Rossi. On for a 10th world title at age 36.
Jack Mendel: Brad Hogg has done pretty well! Just signed a new Big Bash League contract. Only 44.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"This pitch looks as if it's going to be good for batting for the next three days. England should take that opportunity, bat for five sessions and get 500 and a lead."
Pak 346-7 (Shafiq 70, Yasir 0)
"More brains in a pork pie". You can tick that off your Boycott Bingo card.
Sir G is correct, mind. That was an awful innings. Asad Shafiq realises he needs to get a shift on now and he gets down on one knee before belting four over mid-on.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"He wants to be hitting himself on top of the head. You've got a guy at the other end batting nicely and all he's done in some nonsensical slogging. More brains in a pork pie. The captain should say to him: 'What the hell are you doing?'"
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Wahab c Anderson b Moeen 6 (Pak 342-7)
If some batsmen book in for bed and breakfast, Wahab just poked his head around the door and enquired about vacancies.
He had no intention of staying for any length of time - playing an ugly swipe across the line and top-edging a steepling catch to James Anderson at mid-on.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Ken Isaacs, Nottingham: Our local village cricket team, Sapcote, had a guy called Neville Smith who was still playing into his eighties. When he died they named a street after him!
Annie P, Motions, Japan: Ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, 43 years young and still winning! He was winning medals before most of his current opponents were even born!
Pak 338-6 (Stokes 16-3-45-1)
Pakistan can take heart from the fact that Wahab's highest career partnership was with the bloke down the other end, Asad Shafiq. They put on 38 together against Sri Lanka earlier this year.
The right-hander, who bowls left-arm quick, looks decidedly iffy outside off stump against the reverse swing of Ben Stokes though.
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Theo Sheridan: Yesterday: wicket right after lunch and right after tea. Today: wicket at the start of the morning and straight after drinks?
Pak 335-6
Wahab is off the mark with a single off the outside edge. Ben Stokes, at first slip, wasn't far from grabbing that. It just didn't carry.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Philip Beagon: Ken Rosewall. Two grand slam tennis finals at 39 in 1974. Best backhand bar none.
PtheP: Tom Delaney raced his Frazer Nash from 1930 until 2006, the year he died aged 94.
Pak 334-6
Wahab Riaz, with a Test batting average below nine, is the new man to the crease. Get loose, Adil.
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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Moeen tossed it up just a little bit, and the ball was too close to Sarfraz, he didn't get under it. That just gives England a lift, because those two were playing nicely and looking to dominate."
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Sarfraz c Anderson b Moeen 32 (Pak 334-6)
That feels like a big wicket in the context of the innings. England are now into the Pakistan bowlers after Sarfraz decides to come down the wicket to Moeen but succeeds only in scooping a catch to James Anderson at mid-on.
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Pakistan 334-5 (106 overs) - won toss
Batsmen: Shafiq 66*, Sarfraz 32*
Fall of wickets: 51-1 (Hafeez 19), 58-2 (Malik 2), 85-3 (Masood 54), 178-4 (Younus 56), 282-5 (Misbah 102)
Bowling figures: Anderson 20-5-40-1, Broad 17-4-48-1, Moeen 21-3-89-1, Wood 17-7-37-1, Stokes 15-3-44-1, Rashid 16-1-74-0.
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Drinks break
Pak 334-5
Ben Stokes is already getting the ball to reverse and he almost induces Sarfraz Ahmed into squirting a catch to point. It drops just short, but promising for England.
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Tony Whitley: May I mention my Dad. Born 1899. Suffered captivity in the war and lost an eye whilst escaping through Sweden. Dad was 54 years old at the Queen's Coronation and at the big street party Dad anchored our tug-of-war team. As a lad, having run away to sea, he had worked as a deckie on sailing ships and he really knew how to call and haul. As a young teenager I was not on the best of terms with my Dad but that day he made my hair stand on end and my heart beat with pride! His roars of 'Heave' - pause - 'Heave' and led his team of bus conductors, fitters, clerks and others in a great rhythmic beat. Irresistible. They won the prize. If Her Majesty's coronation did nothing else, it gave me pride in my Dad.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"In partnership, Shafiq and Sarfraz have scored 855 runs together at an average of 57."
Pak 333-5
England turn to Ben Stokes. If anyone can...
Pak 333-5 (Shafiq 66, Sarfraz 31)
Moeen Ali is on for his first over of the day and he is greeted by Sarfraz with a boundary down to third man. It's all gone a little flat for England - this partnership is sucking the life out of them, and is now worth 51 runs.
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Julian, Surrey: Fauja Singh - 100-year-old marathon runner.
Sam: Ex England semi-pro footballer and Cheltenham legend Neil Grayson finally hung up his playing boots last year just short of his 50th birthday.
Pak 326-5 (Anderson 20-5-40-1)
Want a celeb spot? Well, Andrew Flintoff has just rocked up at MediaCity outside the window where I'm working. You know the one I mean... that fella who went round Britain in a chip van, used to box a bit and now models clothes for bigger gentlemen.
I'm only teasing... Freddie's one of my cricketing heroes. England could do with one of his lung-busting overs here. James Anderson is struggling to get the newish ball to do very much.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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David Fletcher: Eddie Hemmings played Tests in his 40s. And how old was 'Flat' Jack Simmons of Lancs when he retired?
Simon Richardson: Seeing as the first four days of the first Test lasted about 100 years, I'm currently defying age as a 131-year old worker.
Scott Fowler: My dad made his cricketing debut at the tender age of 48. It didn't go to plan with a duck and a bruised ankle.
Pak 325-5 (Shafiq 65, Sarfraz 24)
Asad Shafiq has scored more runs through mid-wicket (15) than anywhere else on the ground. England react to his obvious strength by placing a catcher at short mid-wicket. James Anderson bowls him a rib-tickler and hits the batsman on the glove. After scampering a single, Shafiq calls for some medical help. That hurt him.
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Toby Tarrant: David Seaman made THAT save against Sheff Utd when he was 39!
Diggerthedog: Jamie Cureton - 40 and still banging in goals.
Tom Hart: Phil "The Power" Taylor! An elite athlete well into his 50s.
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Ramiz Raja
Ex-Pakistan captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Sarfraz will always deliver a counter-punch. He has got an uncanny ability to find the right angles."
Pak 324-5 (partnership 42 runs)
At the end of his last over, James Anderson was warned for running on to the danger area for a second time. Do it again and he's out of the attack. That's the last thing England need.
Another tidy set of six from Adil Rashid, but the batsmen are picking him and milking the runs.
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Tim: Miguel Angel Jimenez. Cigars, red wine, fast cars. And the best hole-in-one celebration you'll ever see. Utter legend.
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Ramiz Raja
Ex-Pakistan captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I think Misbah's end is nearing. I don't see him carrying on for more than six months or so."
Pak 320-5 (run-rate 3.13)
A spectator sits in the stand surveying the action through some binoculars. I'm sure the Pakistan batsmen would like something similar as they try and work out the types of delivery James Anderson is about to bowl. Two from the over.
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Dan Gee: Diego Costa for Chelsea. He looks more like 52 than 25!
dan almond: Stanislaw Kowalski, 105. World's oldest living competitive athlete.
Joseph Murphy: Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova played well into their relative old ages.
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Ramiz Raja
Ex-Pakistan captain on BBC Test Match Special
"In the last session or even in the middle session today, I can see Rashid picking up wickets. It's such an asset to have a leg-spinner against the tail-enders."
Pak 318-5 (Shafiq 60 off 122)
Adil Rashid is a short man with long legs. It must be a nightmare for him to get fitted for a suit. In other, more pressing news, Asad Shafiq has decided he's going to take on the Yorkshire leggie and he mis-times a shot into the off side. The ball flies into the desert air but lands safely in the outfield. The right-hander got lucky there.
Sarfraz shows him how it's done - a full toss being belted through to the long-on boundary.
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Mark Savile: Will Misbah be around next summer in England? His absence will seriously weaken this Pakistan middle order.
David: Gibson has worked wonders with the England bowling attack. Broad especially.
Pak 311-5 (100 overs)
England have four men around the bat for the right-handed Sarfraz - you could throw a blanket over them between slip and short extra cover. So what does Sarfraz do? He gets down and sweeps James Anderson for a single.
Only five pace bowlers have got most career Test wickets than Jimmy. I wonder if anybody ever swept Glenn McGrath or Courtney Walsh?
Scorecard update
Pakistan 309-5 (99 overs) - won toss
Batsmen: Shafiq 58*, Sarfraz 15*
Fall of wickets: 51-1 (Hafeez 19), 58-2 (Malik 2), 85-3 (Masood 54), 178-4 (Younus 56), 282-5 (Misbah 102)
Bowling figures: Anderson 17-5-34-1, Broad 17-4-48-1, Moeen 20-3-82-1, Wood 17-7-37-1, Stokes 14-3-43-1, Rashid 14-1-63-0.
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Sportspeople who defy the years
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Steve Lank: Juan Manuel Fangio, F1 champion in 1957 at the age of 46. Beating a 29-year-old Stirling Moss into second.
K's Papa: Tom Watson.
Scott Fowler: My dad made his cricketing debut at the tender age of 48. It didn't go to plan with a duck and a bruised ankle.
Pak 309-5 (Rashid 14-1-63-0)
Adil Rashid is regarded as somebody who is effective against the lower order, but England still need another wicket before they can say they are into the Pakistan tail. Just three from the over.
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Ramiz Raja
Ex-Pakistan captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Shafiq is compact, he's tidy, his technique is in good order and he's been very consistent over the last couple of years. He never shirks his responsibility."
Pak 306-5 (98 overs)
Sarfraz has an odd stance at the crease - he stands Jonny Bairstow-like waiting for the bowler to run in (bat high, eyes fixed on the prize) before switching to an Eoin-Morgan-like stance as the ball comes down (crouching back in his crease).
As Adil Rashid gets loose, James Anderson is given a bowl. Just one from the over.
Sportspeople who defy the years
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Simon Richardson: Simon Shaw defied age by playing top level rugby until the age of 40!
Faisal: Roger Federer and Didier Drogba.
Dave Evans: Terry Funk. Was still regularly wrestling into his late 60s.
Pak 305-5 (run-rate 3.14)
That's dented Stuart Broad's figures a little - Asad Shafiq making it 11 from the over when he clips the ball through to the mid-wicket boundary as the bowler got too leggy.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Sarfraz is a typical keeper-batsman - he's busy, he's energetic, he's got good control with his shots. He causes chaos for captains - Alastair Cook has had to change his field three or four times already today."
Pak 298-5 (Shafiq 53, Sarfraz 12)
A lovely shot from Sarfraz Ahmed, who caresses the ball through the off side for four. He then rides a fuller delivery, getting over the bounce of the ball to guide three more into the cover region. Impressive.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"In Asad Shafiq's last nine Tests, he has 779 runs at 64.91 with four centuries and two fifties."
50 for Asad Shafiq (off 111 balls)
Pak 294-5
The world's best number six? The stats certainly say so (nobody has more Test centuries batting at four down than Asad Shafiq), and he brings up his 12th Test half-century with a thick-edged four through the slip region. He went at the ball with soft hands, creating his own luck there. A superb knock.
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
"I just have a feeling that this Pakistan side could come seriously unstuck in England next summer."
Pak 284-5 (Broad 16-4-37-1)
England's seam bowlers, to a man, have been superb on this tour. Their skills have been as good as I can remember.
Stuart Broad is perhaps the most skilful of all Englishmen in these conditions and he has another leg-before shout turned down. It was sliding down leg and Sarfraz survives. Maiden over.
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Paul Mitchell: Billy Bonds - West Ham's player of the year in 1987 at the age of 41.
Śârâh Khäñ: For me it has to be the one and only Imran Khan!
Barry Sampath: Paolo Maldini.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Wood's arrival in the England team has brought energy and something different - I like what he brings to the team, his character. But he has got to be patient because he hasn't had that five- or six-wicket haul in his Test career yet."
Pak 284-5 (Wood 16-7-27-1)
Jonny Bairstow is, once again, under the helmet and he always seems in the game at short leg when Mark Wood is bowling at the batsmen's ribs. Pakistan have barely got out of the stables this morning with Crazy Horse Wood and Stuart Broad keeping a tight rein on proceedings.
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Pete, Blandford: What a legend Roger Milla at the 1990 World Cup was!
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"There's already the odd patch developing and certainly by day four, there will be something for the spinners to work with."
Pak 283-5 (93 overs)
Sarfraz is off the mark with a very quick and frenetic single into the leg side. A Kevin Pietersen-like first run.
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Rachel T: Fantastic! Wood said England would get two early wickets! Saddling up my imaginary horse as I type...
Chris Boyes: Love it when a plan comes together. Set him up for that.
Jack Mendel: Watching UAE. Tests is the most convenient.. No getting up in the middle of the night. Cricket with cereal.
The new man at the crease
Pak 282-5 (Shafiq 46, Sarfraz 0)
Mark Wood shares opening bowling duties with Stuart Broad, and he follows a similar plan - bowling fast, accurate bouncers at Asad Shafiq. Maiden over.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"That was Misbah's fourth Test century after the age of 40. Only Jack Hobbs, with eight, has hit more. He's also hit the most sixes after 40, and is fifth on the list of most runs after the age of 40, just behind Geoffrey Boycott."
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Sam Knibbs: Jo Pavey.
Ali Akram: Favourite old sportsman is boxer Bernard Hopkins. Still defying the odds and was world champ at the age of 49.
esma'eil: Gianluigi Buffon.
Pak 282-5
That rather disrupts my debate about sportspeople who defy the years. But no bother... let's carry on regardless, in the words of Beautiful South. Sarfraz Ahmed is the new man to the crease and he ducks under a Broad bouncer first up.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Misbah's going to have a tough time next summer if he comes to England, in English conditions. When you have that plan set, you know the bouncer's in the locker because the field's been set for it, but you've got to keep your head over off stump."
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Misbah lbw b Broad 102 (Pak 282-5)
He's gone! And what superb bowling it was from Stuart Broad. Dare I say it... world class!
Misbah was peppered with short stuff - he ducked, he weaved, he rode one. Once his prey was trapped back in his crease, Broad bowled a fuller delivery and Misbah was all at sea.
Superb.
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Pak 282-4
Stuart Broad nips one back into Misbah's pads. Looks out. Is given out. Misbah reviews.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Charles Dagnall has a five-minute routine when he tees off in golf. It didn't work for him in Abu Dhabi, but last night, under the lights... he got a hole-in-one at the second."
Pak 282-4
Stuart Broad gets us under way, bowling to Misbah on 102 not out. But first, some breaking golf news...
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So, the morning session is about to get under way. Because of Friday prayers, it's a little longer today (lasting two and a half hours). An hour-long lunch then follows.
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Misbah did a good job yesterday. He's got a good record against everybody, but they shouldn't be worried about bowling spin to him, he's not infallible against spin so I don't think England are in a bad position. They've got to aim to bowl them out for 350. They can't afford to let Pakistan get 450 because of their leggie."
'Let's get into them early doors'
England pace bowler Mark Wood impressed yesterday - unsettling quite a few of the Pakistan batsmen with his pace. He also faced the media last night, saying: "If we could have had one more wicket, we'd have said it was a really good day.
"At number eight they've got a bowler, so if we can get into them early doors tomorrow, then hopefully we can knock over the tail pretty quickly.
"The wicket was probably easier to score on than Abu Dhabi, a bit more skiddy, which suits my type of bowling. But all in all, it's a better pitch to bat on."
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"I used to break bowling down into small sections. I'd normally bowl three or four overs for four runs each before lunch, then 15 overs for not more than 25 runs in the afternoon, then you'd look to take a wicket or two in the evening - so by the end of the day, you'd have bowled 30 overs and taken 2-60 or 2-70, then you'll have done a really good job for your team on the first day."
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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Rashid bowled a lot of short balls yesterday, and he's got to work on that. This is Test cricket, you can't be getting cut so often."
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Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"People think you come to this part of the world and the spinners will just win you the game. But the wickets are very good to bat on. Pakistan will target Moeen Ali so that Alastair Cook is forced to bowl Adil Rashid more in the first innings."
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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Early wickets are the key for England. Wahab Riaz is only a couple of wickets away. If Pakistan get over 400, it's going to be very difficult for England."
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In honour of 41-year-old Misbah, I want to know of your favourite 'old' sportsmen and women. This is not meant to be 'ageist', but more a tribute to those who defy the years.
And they don't have to be famous either. Maybe 62-year-old Cliff down at your local cricket club, who bowls 25 overs unchanged?
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How's stat?!
If you missed it late on in yesterday's play, Freddie Felton emailed us to ask about Misbah's tendency to hit a lot of sixes relative to fours. TMS statistician Andrew Samson tells us that there are only four players this century who have scored more than 3,000 Test runs and exceeded Misbah's sixes-v-fours percentage:
Statistics correct to the end of day one
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Still pressing snooze under the duvet? Perhaps you've finished your day's work and are heading under the duvet for an eight hour stretch? Lucky you!
Either way, Test Match Special is a willing companion throughout the day. You can now tune in on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, Radio 4 LW or online via a number of internet-enabled devices.
I even managed to stream it on to my television the other day. Rock and roll stuff.
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Pakistan 282-4 (90 overs) - won toss
Batsmen: Misbah 102*, Shafiq 46*
Fall of wicket: 51-1 (Hafeez 19), 58-2 (Malik 2), 85-3 (Masood 54), 178-4 (Younus 56)
Bowling figures: Anderson 16-5-33-1, Broad 13-2-36-0, Moeen 20-3-82-1, Wood 14-6-26-1, Stokes 14-3-43-1, Rashid 13-1-60-0.
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A special man
Oh yes... Misbah is something special. He's taken the Pakistan cricket team and turned them into a cohesive unit (no easy task!) and his performances with the bat continue to astound.
While some 41-year-olds might be thinking about the odd game of darts down the local boozer, Misbah is taking the attack to international cricket teams in some of the most oppressive heat any sportsman will endure.
Top-drawer stuff, I'm sure you will agree.
But can he go on and take Pakistan to that magical 500-mark?
All hail the old man of cricket
What a man. Feats of sheer endurance. Age-defying. Superman-like stuff.
Not bad for a man born in 1974.
No, not Bear Grylls (although he was born in 1974) - but Misbah-ul-Haq.
Where would Pakistan be without him?