Ben Wire: Alvin Kallicharan gave me a signed bat when I was five. Largely forgotten but great player. Still got it, still love it.

Rahat Ali on after drinks for his first roll of the day. At long leg, sub fielder Mohammad Rizwan flops like a diver into a shallow pool, flapping around and making a right hash of the fielding. Cue mirth from the baying spectators behind. England's lead creeping up.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

This morning has been about one poor shot, and one not-so-good shot. Yesterday Alex Hales played really well. What happens this morning is he gets one across him and he pushes at it, and he's caught at slip. For Cook, they set a 7-2 field, and bowled wide at him early on. He went after it, and spooned it to backward point.

Joe Morgan: Half the England team are from Yorkshire. There is no way they would have put their hands in their pocket!!

Anyway, my Alex Hales story. It starts with him playing club cricket for Leek CC. Against my team, Hales edged to gully, about knee high, where the catch was taken. He remained at the crease, asking if the ball carried and somehow got away with it. Cue anger from our team (he got out soon after and we won, so no real harm done).

Still, some years later, he was spotted on a night out by one of our lads, who approached him and asked if he remembered. He did and even recorded a video apology. Well played, sir.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

I'm getting angry at people questioning whether Vince should be in the team or not. I'd have him in just for the way he looks.

Spectators continue to file in as Yasir goes through his box of tricks to the slender Vince. Straight-oner, loopy leggie, quicker one on to the leg stump. Time for a drink. 

Brighty: After a friend played a charity game in Australia whilst travelling, Katich gave him a hat which is now used by my dad.

Andrew Chester: Was given - and still own - Graeme Swann's spare cricket bag in Year 7 at school.

I can hear boos in the crowd, but I can't tell you what they're directed at. Steward confiscating a beach ball? Man refusing to get a round in? David Warner? Vince is a man battling against himself, desperate for the score his fledgling Test career needs. When Sohail errs on to the pads the Hampshire man clips to mid-wicket for four.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

If I was bowling on this wicket, I'd be rubbing my hands - it's dry, it's hard. It's going to turn rather excessively over the next two days; I don't think the seamers will be as effective.

England will need a decent lead - 280 or 300. Moeen is short on confidence, short on form. He needs that cushion of a decent lead.

Spin for the first time, Yasir Shah bouncing in with a slip and a short leg in place. Towel in the back of his trousers, off-stump line towards the shabby, Jack Russell keeping pads of Sarfraz Ahmed. No turn, but good length and nice loop. A Root single brings up the England 150.

Sohail only has two men on the leg side, so the plan is to hang the ball outside Root's off stump. Clever plan to play on the patience, or missing a trick by not bowling at the stumps? The Edgbaston noise is cranked up further in the sunshine, but there are still plenty of empty seats. If you fancy the cricket, you might end up getting part of your ticket paid for by an England player...

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Andrew Wakely

Stephen, I think there's a way to alter the sound of your wicket alert to whatever you want it to be. I'd get umpire Rod Tucker saying "can you rock n roll that for me please". Still Amir, skiddy run, Root able to pick off a single to that point sweeper. Rebuilding. Slowly, slowly.

Stephen Leatherdale: This is what happens when I finally get round to switching the alerts on the @BBCSport, external app.

Sohail, who sprinted in when he got a five-fer on day one, is now like a man whose braces are stuck on the sightscreen. Still, his line to Root is good, with a sweeper on the point fence doing the bizo when the ball is dropped short. Chants in the crowd are of a Pakistani persuasion, the English support not as lairy as yesterday. Some not willing to gamble on fourth-day tickets?

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

That is as good a drive as you'll ever see - little foot movement, checked drive, high left elbow. It's as good a drive as Michael Vaughan ever played.

Conflab between the Pakistan brains trust, delicately trying to nail the balance between attack and defence. The best way to keep the target down is to take wickets, but every run saved is one more they don't have to get. Sun behind a cloud then out again, Amir testing Vince's eagerness to get off the mark. There it is, cover drive. We know you can play that, James, but show us something more. 

Henry Ellison: Why do we always lose wickets in clumps? Going to lose this match now. Vince will hit 14 and get out.

Mark Savile: England just getting the slow scorers out of the way early on to give us a chance of 350 by stumps.