Bess is still looking for his maiden Test wicket but he has a respectable 0-43 from his 12 overs.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Lord's

I've counted at least 10 popped corks on the strip of grass between the bottom of the Edrich Stand and the boundary edge. There's a steward sitting there, in the open space, his back to the cricket and eyes on the crowd. He might need a helmet.

The diminutive captain Sarfraz Ahmed is the new man and he gets away with a single first ball. But Stokes has made the breakthrough once again for England. Can they add further wickets in the half an hour or so we have before tea?

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

Asad Shafiq's 59 came off 100 balls and contained six fours and a six.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

Just short of a length and it got big on him from nowhere. Beautifully bowled. Shafiq has bowled, but Stokes has bowled well. It's a gift that he's got.

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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special commentator

That's another one that's gone down. That is rather symptomatic of the way England's day has gone.

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That's a chance gone begging though. A short one from Stokes is fended away by Shafiq but Buttler cannot cling on to it diving to his left in the gully.

This is as close as England have come to a wicket in the afternoon session... and it was not the best of reviews in retrospect was it?..

Bess again. He hails from Sidmouth, a beautiful coastal town in Devon with gorgeous red-tinged cliffs. They used to film the wonderful Jeeves and Wooster with Fry and Laurie down there. England could do with some Jeeves-style ingenuity, they are just not posing any problems.

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Wood again from round the wicket but they are calmly leaving him or flicking him away comfortably clear of the leg slip and backward square-leg. Babar then pulls one savagely for his sixth booundary.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

I like Bess' attitude. You just feel that there's someone here who could do really well at this level.

With Bess continuing it's time for the television hosts to get the rev-counter out. This measures the revolutions per second that the bowler is placing on the ball and Bess has a best of 31 in this over. He's bowling around 55mph and the batsmen have around 0.767 seconds to react. But perhaps most importantly, he has yet to take a wicket, 0-34 from 10 overs.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Lord's

I'm in the Edrich Stand, under the media centre. There are some Pakistan fans enjoying themselves, loving the position their team is in, chanting and giving England some good-natured joshing. A couple of stewards have stepped in, which seems a bit over the top. The spectators, though, end the conversation with a round of applause.

Wood again from the Pavilion End, persisting with the short-pitched tactic from round the wicket. He is up at 88.mph but not causing much discomfort to the batsmen.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

This is getting serious for England.

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Bess again, the 20-year-old debutant, who seemed like an extremely personable character in his pre-match interviews. He's thumped down the ground to the boundary by Babar though and that takes Pakistan into the lead, with those seven wickets still intact.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

It's becoming danger time. if England don't get a couple of wickets in the next hour, Pakistan will be in a very strong position.

Babar clips Wood away for his fourth boundary and it prompts a return to the Bodyline approach, Wood as Harold Larwood going round the wicket and a leg slip and short leg positioned by Joe Jardine. The England players can discuss it further over a drink.

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