Just the one wicket for Amir in the first innings and yet to strike in this innings, with England adding 48 since lunch.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

The fifty partnership has come up from 95 balls, with six fours.

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A rare loose one from Shadab - a full toss in fact - and Root calmly brushes it away for his seventh boundary. It also brings up a much-needed fifty partnership.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Lord's

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The sun has shone for most of the day, but it is blowing a hoolie at Lord's. I'm at the back of the Edrich Stand and the wind is whipping in from the Nursery End.

Because the stands protect the playing area, it's hard to tell if the breeze is affecting the players. If it is, you won't see the pacemen queueing up to bowl from the Pavilion End.

A loose one from Malan outside the off stump to Amir and fortunately for England he makes no contact. His captain has a "little word". It would be amiable though from Joe wouldn't it? Not Phil Mitchell-style.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

Joe Root's fifty came from 93 balls with six fours in 131 minutes.

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50 for Rootpublished at 31.1 overs

31.1 overs

Not off the middle again from the captain but it goes safely between second slip and gully to bring up his 40th fifty in his 68th Test. A quiet raise of the bat.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

You can start seeing in Joe Root's body language that he's getting that rhythm back. Even the way he's running between the wickets, you can see he's getting that confidence back.

Fortune for Root, a bottom edge at Shadab and it goes into the ground and through wicketkeeper Sarfraz to the boundary.

Michael Calverley: Pakistan bring so much to Test cricket. Reducing this to a two game series is a real loss.

The ice creams are out in the crowd as Amir continues and the camera rather cruelly makes two visits to a lady asleep on the shoulder of an MCC member, who presumably she knows. Root clips through mid-wicket for two - and makes them safely this time.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Malan has only just got his foot back in. I thought it might be one of those horrible ones where you smack a sweep onto the inside of your boot and it pops up for the catch.

Shadab has a leg slip for the left-handed Malan, in addition to the ordinary slip and short-leg. All manner of confusion as the England batsman sweeps. The bails are off after a sharp piece of work from Inzamam's nephew Imam, but after a brief look upstairs the foot is safely behind the line.

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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Partnerships don't have to be rattling along. Sit it, on a nice, hot sunny day at Lord's and just take the sting out of this Pakistan bowling unit.

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Amir from the Nursery End, face smeared in sun cream. Another alarm between the wickets and the outstretched Root would have been out there had the throw from the boundary hit the target. Unlikely, but not worth the risk, surely?

Grant Kennett: Drop Stoneman and get Jennings back in there. While we’re at it, Malan out, Hildreth in. What have England really got to lose? Those two are bossing it for their counties so far so I’d love to hear the reasons against...

What if Dawid goes big in this innings Grant?

New national selector Ed Smith is looking very sharp in his suit and dark glasses. He is sitting next to Anya Shrubsole so maybe she will be called up for the Headingley Test. Well, it does swing around there. Three byes are recorded past short-leg in the Shadab over, England will take them however they come.

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Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Lord's

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At Lord's, the flags of the two teams taking part in the Test fly over the pavilion.

Flags of the rest of the Test nations flutter at the Nursery End. Recently, there have been a couple of additions.

The wind is picking up now as Root skews Hasan safely along the ground between second slip and gully. It takes him to 38 and that's his highest first-class score of the season.

That's the Joe we all know and love, beautifully stroked away off the back foot for his third boundary and that brings up the England fifty from 149 balls. The only inconvenience for the captain in the Shadab over is an impediment in his eye - and the physio is called upon again.

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