Postpublished at 18:57 British Summer Time 14 May 2019
Joe Root is in at three.
Would you not have been tempted to send Ben Stokes out and let him get some overs under his belt? Still plenty of time left, I suppose...
Summary
Bairstow smashes brutal 128 off 93 balls
Roy - dropped on 21 - hits 76 off 55 balls
Pakistan 358-9: Imam-ul-Haq hits career-best 151
Woakes takes 4-67 as England limit Pakistan in final overs
Curran takes 2-74 & produces superb run out of Haris
Third ODI, Bristol, England lead series 1-0
Postpublished at 18:57 British Summer Time 14 May 2019
Postpublished at 18:57 British Summer Time 14 May 2019
Ramiz Raja
Ex-Pakistan captain on TMSTremendous innings once again from Jason Roy. The ball got just a little too big on him. It is something for Pakistan to build on.
Image source, AFP
WICKETpublished at 17.2 overs
Roy c Asif b Faheem 76 (Eng 159-1)
Finally, something goes Pakistan's way.
This is well bowled by Faheem Ashraf, bending his back and hurrying Jason Roy with a well-directed short ball. Roy throws a pull shot at the ball but he doesn't control it, and the top-edge flies to Asif Ali. Asif almost loses the ball with the sun shining in his eyes, but he's able to take a head-high grab at point to end an utterly astonishing opening partnership.
Postpublished at 18:55 British Summer Time 14 May 2019
Ramiz Raja
Ex-Pakistan captain on TMSIt is relentless pressure and great improvisation that has been brilliantly executed by Jason Roy.
Eng 158-0published at 17.2 overs
Target 359
Jonny Bairstow had been outscoring Jason Roy, so Roy unfurls a dinky little ramp shot to close down the gap.
Honestly, we're just playing Stick Cricket now.
Image source, ReutersEng 153-0published at 17 overs
Another chastening Shaheen Afridi over ends.
Postpublished at 18:51 British Summer Time 14 May 2019
Jonny Bairstow's wagon wheel.
Which side do you reckon he favours? He's had to have a new bat brought out as he's broken the other one.
Image source, OptaEng 150-0published at 16.2 overs
Oh. OH, Pakistan have been terrible in the field today.
This is awful from Asif Ali, who dives on Jonny Bairstow's leg side stroke in the deep, stops it, rolls over and, mid-roll, lets the ball slip out of his hands and throws it into the boundary rope.
drinks break Drinks breakpublished at 18:46 British Summer Time 14 May 2019
We're going to take a break from the absolute carnage to have some drinks.
Something strong for the Pakistan bowlers, I'd imagine.
get involved Get Involvedpublished at 18:46 British Summer Time 14 May 2019
#bbccricket
Calum Trenaman: How is anyone else in the England batting line-up meant to get any practice before the World Cup with Roy and Bairstow in this kind of form?
Ben Willmott: England guys hitting so many boundaries, it's getting to the stage the DJ needs a wider playlist!
Image source, Getty ImagesEng 145-0published at 16 overs
Target 359
Faheem Ashraf is the latest bowler to enter the bowling machine simulation.
Jonny Bairstow jabs him, a little aerially, square of the wicket, but it's just short of Imam-ul-Haq in the deep. Bairstow tries another few flaying shots but they're not quite coming off the middle of the bat, right up until the last ball of the over when he tonks him back down the ground for a lovely four.
Eng 137-0published at 15 overs
And Bairstow steals the strike.
20 from the over. 111 from last 10.
Simply mind-boggling.
Eng 136-0published at 14.5 overs
Huuuuuuugeeee.
Jonny Bairstow follows consecutive boundaries with another huge six.
This is staggering.
Eng 130-0published at 14.4 overs
Pakistan are wilting in the Bristol sun as this onslaught continues.
Full to Bairstow this time and it's the same result.
50 for Bairstowpublished at 14.3 overs
Emphatic.
Short from Shaheen. Smacked for four by Jonny Bairstow.
That takes him to 53 from 36 balls.
Image source, AFPEng 121-0published at 14.1 overs
Jason Roy on strike for the first ball of an over again...
Only a four this time.
Boooo.
Eng 117-0published at 14 overs
Target 359
Ooft, Jason Roy comes perilously close to holing out at cover, but the ball bounces just in front of the waiting fielder.
No matter. Roy celebrates by crashing a short ball through the leg side for yet another four, before he and Jonny Bairstow take a sneaky - and perilous - single.
How's stat?!published at 18:34 British Summer Time 14 May 2019
Andy Zaltzman
Test Match Special statisticianThat six was the fourth time Jason Roy has hit the opening ball of an over for six in this innings.
Eng 112-0published at 13.1 overs
Roy 60, Bairstow 49
And guess what?
Jason Roy has smashed his first delivery down the ground and into the crowd.
Postpublished at 18:29 British Summer Time 14 May 2019
Faheem Ashraf is going to try and stop the carnage.