Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"The ball went from his shoulder and went underneath the grille. He's got a cut, and they may want to look at the helmet too."

Hales and Morgan exchange a few singles from the rest of the over. It looks like Morgan is going to need a bit of treatment here - that short ball from Irfan grazed his jaw after hitting the helmet and has opened up a bit of a gash.

Morgan dropped on 2published at 7.2 overs

7.2 overs

Down! England would have been really in the mire if Zafar had held on to this, but it was a tough chance. Full-blooded straight drive from Morgan, travelling at a race of knots, Zafar puts his hands up but the ball clunks him on the forearm.

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Irfan's up for it, and there's Wahab Riaz to come. The ball didn't beat the bat very often when England are batting. The Force is with Irfan at the moment, and they've slipped the debutant on early and he's got a bonus wicket. We've got a game on here."

Irfan is well up for this - he raps Eoin Morgan on the helmet, completely deceives Hales with an off-cutter, then signals his aggression by pointing at his eyes then back at Hales. Hales juts his bottom lip out in affected nonchalance. Feisty.

Paul Roberts: Rooooooty what have you done?

Cap'n Morgan arrives on deck with the ship in need of steadying. He clips a single past mid-wicket to get under way.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"That was a bit of a gift. Zafar Gohar hadn't had the best over and that was a genuine low full toss, but Root will be frustrated as he could have got that one down, or hit it in front of square. I don't think Zafar looks threatening, but England need to be careful here. Eoin Morgan needs to steady the ship alongside Alex Hales, who hasn't looked too comfortable yet."

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Joe Root has just reached 2,000 runs for England in all three formats (Test, ODI & T20I) in the calendar year 2015.

The only more prolific England players on that list, external are Kevin Pietersen (2,120 in 2007) and Paul Collingwood (2,026 in 2007). But the all-time record belongs to Kumar Sangakkara, way out in front on 2,868 in the year 2014.

Irfan is pumped up here. He bangs in an absolute snorter which raps Joe Root's glove as the young maestro tries to take evasive action. No catcher there though.

Dropped catchpublished at 4.1 overs

4.1 overs

Eng 21-1

Ooh, what a let-off that is for Alex Hales. It's almost identical to the Roy dismissal - Irfan round the wicket, squared up trying to work him to leg, loopy leading edge. This time the ball arcs tantalisingly back towards the bowler, but Irfan, whose left mitt is bigger than most, can't grab it.

A Question of Sport Teaser

Remember today's #QSTeaser from ‏@QuestionofSport, external? Since Mitchell Johnson’s debut in '07, who are the six other Australians to have played over 50 Tests?

And the answers... Michael Clarke, Brad Haddin, Mike Hussey, Ricky Ponting, Peter Siddle, Shane Watson.

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England, of course, have the luxury of a modest target, so Root and Hales can play themselves in somewhat at leisure here without having to look for the boundary. A single to backward point takes Root to 2,000 runs in all formats for the calendar year - the third to get there, after Steve Smith and Kane Williamson - and he concludes the over with a bruising pull for four.

Neil Chamberlain: Pakistan gifted @ECB_cricket, external plenty of wickets, if we bat like professionals we should easily see this through.

Joe Root is the new man, and England fans will now be well used to the reassuring sight of him striding to the crease early, ready to defuse a mini-crisis. He gets off the mark with a single to third man.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"He got completely done there. Irfan has come round the wicket and angles it in bowling that fourth-stump line, and it caused Jason Roy to square up."

Anwar Ali opens the bowling from the other end. Irfan gets down rather gingerly, like an old man stooping to fetch his slippers from under the footstool, and thus fails to stop a Hales leg-side clip from going to the fine-leg boundary for four, Those are the only runs from a pretty tight over though.