Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

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I'd say to Finn, forget your long run. Come in off 15 paces, hurtle in and let the ball go, just run in and bowl fast. Have a short, explosive run-up and let it go. It will bring zip back, and he'll run in and hit the crease hard. You really have to get energy and momentum.

Finn changes the angle, round the wicket with catchers on the leg side in a bid to unsettle Misbah. He'd have more joy counting the grains of sand on a beach. Misbah, at a virtually silent Lord's, ducks and sways like Neo in The Matrix. New ball due in eight overs. England praying for it.  

Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer at Lord's

Ah, the unchanging face of Lord's. A pair of genuine pay-phones, last used in harness some time in July 1998. Still take guineas.

Misbah is the big cat to Moeen Ali's tiny mouse. You get the feeling he's just pawing, toying with his prey. He's also got more sweeps than Dale Winton's supermarket. First a reverse, then a conventional, then a reverse, then a conventional. Four boundaries. He's taking the mick and he's into the 90s.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

There's enough on there for me to think that by days four or five cracks will appear to give the fast bowlers something.

This the closest England have come in the last hour or so, Asad Shafiq edging Stuart Broad past the dive of Alastair Cook. The skipper looked like an extra from Platoon. Not long after, Shafiq moved past 50.

Pakistan 228-4 (70 overs) - won toss and chose to bat first

Not out: Misbah 75, Shafiq 55

Fall of wickets: 38-1 (Masood 7), 51-2 (Hafeez 40), 77-3 (Azhar 7), 4-134 (Younus 33)

Bowling: Broad 18-8-35-1, Ball 17-5-45-1, Woakes 16-4-45-2, Finn 16-2-75-0, Moeen 3-0-19-0

Full scorecard

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

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Finn doesn't look like he's in any kind of form, or has confidence with mind or technique. Shafiq has played two drives hasn't he? He's got very efficient front foot movement.

England are leaking runs here, desperately searching for a little inspiration. Finn on to the hips of Misbah, tickled fine for four. All a little leggy from Finn, who trudges back to his mark with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Even his hipster beard looks flat, not like the regal whiskers of Misbah. Half-volley, driven for four by Shafiq. We all need a drink...

Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

That's a very well earned fifty for Asad Shafiq. He looks in top touch, after he did very well in the UAE as well.

50 for Asad Shafiqpublished at 17:15

17:15

Pak 219-4

I heard earlier today that Asad Shafiq's record at number six is comparable to that of Garfield Sobers. You don't need to be Sobers to belt long-hops for four, which Shafiq does to reach his 14th Test half-century. He and skipper Misbah are putting this deck into context. Plenty more runs to be had out there.

Gary Ballance has donned a suit of armour, a fielder has been sent to the top of the Mound Stand, can only mean Moeen Ali is going to have a bowl....

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

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He's nearly hit a pigeon, it just went past the pigeon by a few yards. That would have been a sad moment for Henry, wouldn't it?

Only a slip and gully for Finn, Thomas the pigeon still patrolling the square in the point region. Banged in by Finn, Shafiq standing up to cut for four, almost hitting Thomas with the ball. Careful, my feathered friend. England are begging for a wicket here, ruing starting this series on the most UAE-like wicket in England.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

To this pair, it's worth dangling that carrot of the drive. Sometimes when they're driving from fourth or fifth stump, it's not easy.

Close!published at 17:06

17:06

Pak 210-4

Another edge! Broad, camped on the off-stump channel, induces a loose drive from Asad Shafiq, through where second slip would have been. Alastair Cook, at first, throws himself to his right, but his outstretched paw cannot reach the leather. Broad's feral roar heard in Watford. Fast becoming a day of what-ifs for England. 

Yaseen Rana: Jake Ball looks a like a big version of Professor Green. Hopefully we'll Read All About It (his future success) in years to come.

Ammar: Misbah and Shafiq partnership is giving me a lot of confidence in this batting line up. If Pak can get to 300, it could get really interesting.

Speaking of Meatloaf, I think Paradise... is definitely my favourite track. Bat Out Of A Hell a classic, clearly. He was in both Wayne's World and Fight Club. Finn continues to run in, down the slope. Willing, but struggling for effectiveness. Misbah opens the face and takes four to third man.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

Alastair Cook isn't daft - he's not going to put the spinner back on for Misbah.