Summary

  • England drop five catches

  • Babar retired hurt on 68

  • Shafiq 59, Shadab 52, Azhar 50

  • Three wickets for Stokes & Anderson

  • First Test of two-match series

  1. 50 runs

    50 for Shadabpublished at 104.3 overs

    Pak 330-6

    A half-century for Shadab Khan, but it comes up in risky fashion!

    He has a swipe across the line at Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow comes tearing around from behind the stumps in a desperate attempt to grab the ball, but it drops in front of him. The Pakistan balcony stand and applaud.

  2. Postpublished at 18:05 British Summer Time 25 May 2018

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I know they have dropped a few catches but I'm not just blaming that, I don't think England have been at the races for the last two days. Pakistan seemed to have been switched right on.

  3. Pak 328-6published at 104 overs

    A hopeful shout from James Anderson as he thuds a delivery into Mohamamd Amir's pads. Joe Root tries to gee his team up, before wincing as he gathers the ball up.

  4. Postpublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 25 May 2018

    Here's the last wicket to fall, with Faheem Ashraf inside edging onto his stumps.

  5. Pak 327-6published at 103 overs

    A whirl of the wrists brings Mohammad Amir his first run, while Joe Root is wandering around grimacing. He took a bit of a knock on the hand as he dived to save the ball.

    Shadab works Ben Stokes into the leg side for another easy single.

  6. Postpublished at 17:57 British Summer Time 25 May 2018

    Ben Stokes is back on, replacing Mark Wood.

  7. Postpublished at 17:56 British Summer Time 25 May 2018

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    The Ashes were shocking, as bad as I've seen England play for a long time. We came to the summer with hope, a new chairman of selectors, Buttler back, a new spinner. But it has dissipated very quickly.

  8. Pak 325-6published at 102 overs

    Alastair Cook, incidentally, has been banished from the slips and spent that last Mark Wood over lurking at short leg.

    He's back in his usual place, and watches on as Shadab clips a couple of runs fine off James Anderson.

  9. Watch England's dropped catchespublished at 17:51 British Summer Time 25 May 2018

    This is a big part of the reason why England are in the position they're in...

  10. Pak 323-6published at 101 over

    Four!

    Not great from anyone, there - Mark Wood whacks the ball down the leg side and Mark Stoneman, running round to third man, slides and knocks the ball into the boundary. Mohammad Amir then gets beaten all ends up by a delivery that whips past his outside edge.

  11. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:47 British Summer Time 25 May 2018

    Text 81111

    I'm torn between wanting a Pakistani collapse and not trusting English batting enough to make my day 4 tickets usable.

    Jack in Greenwich

  12. Pak 318-6published at 100 overs

    Lead by 134

    Mohammad Amir is the new man in - and there's a big appeal for lbw straight away!

    That's sliding down leg, though, and England opt against another review.

  13. Postpublished at 17:46 British Summer Time 25 May 2018

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    He just brought it back a little bit and you can't expect a lower order player to play like a batsman. It will test the character of England because it is not impossible to come back from this - but they have got to bat really well.

    James AndersonImage source, Reuters
  14. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 99.4 overs

    Faheem b Anderson 37 (Pak 318-6)

    Out!

    James Anderson clears up Faheem Ashraf, via a cheeky inside edge. Just before that delivery, Anderson was trying his best to get the umpire to change the ball. He doesn't need one. Fuller length, a bit of nip back into the batsman, and the ball goes clattering into the stumps.

  15. Postpublished at 17:41 British Summer Time 25 May 2018

    Waqar Younis
    Former Pakistan pace bowler

    I think the credit must be given to Azhar Ali and Haris Sohail, who batted extremely well when the conditions were very difficult. Now the batsmen are not having much trouble out there.

  16. Pak 318-5published at 99 overs

    Faheem 37, Shadab 39

    Mark Wood carries on plugging away, and Shadab Khan whacks him straight through a desperately diving Stuart Broad for four.

    Here's the first of those dropped catches. Is that the keeper's shout? Or is Cook too wide?

  17. Postpublished at 17:35 British Summer Time 25 May 2018

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    The whole day has been a frustrating one for England. It has not been that they have bowled badly all the time, they have bowled some good stuff. Anderson and Broad have bowled good spells, Wood has given it everything, Stokes has bowled good stuff. But they have dropped catches, nobody drops them on purpose, but it hasn't gone for them and they haven't been able to make it happen.

    Mark WoodImage source, Reuters
  18. Pak 309-5published at 98 overs

    Lead by 125

    Well, this has got scrappy all of a sudden.

    Shadab Khan sets off for a single, then changes his mind. Ben Stokes lobs the ball at the stumps, it hits, the deflection races off down to the boundary, and Pakistan nab a single that was never there in the first place.

    Shadab KhanImage source, Reuters
  19. dropped catch

    Shadab dropped on 30published at 97.2 overs

    Pak 308-5

    Well, that one was definitely Alastair Cook's chance - and he's shelled it!

    That's as easy as you'd like. An outside edge, Cook gets both hands to it as the ball comes down low to him, and he drops it. James Anderson says something that I absolutely cannot repeat, and stomps back to his mark while Cook avoids all eye contact.

  20. Pak 308-5published at 97 overs

    Insult to injury - that'll be four from Faheem Ashraf!

    It's short, a bit floaty, and Ashaf just wallops the ball over mid-wicket and into the rope.