Summary

  • Pakistan slip from 78-1 to 120-5

  • Abid 60 - dropped on 1 & 21

  • Two wickets for Anderson

  • Babar 25*, Azhar 20

  • Alam 0 - playing first Test for 11 years

  • Only 45.4 overs bowled

  • Second Test, day one, Ageas Bowl

  • Pakistan won toss; Eng 1-0 up in series

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Jamie Lillywhite

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  2. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at the Ageas Bowl

    It's not raining but it has got darker again. If the ground was dry enough I'm not sure we'd be playing because of the light.

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    Stephen Hicks: This morning's English Channel earthquake report was definitely a false detection - this was confirmed by the reporting agency in France and the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (I am a seismologist).

  4. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Did you feel the earth move this morning or not? There was an earthquake just off the coast of Eastbourne, just down the road from here. It was three on the Richter scale apparently.

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    The irony that had this Test been at Old Trafford we'd have had uninterrupted play all of today and it looks better for the next few days.

    Robin

  6. Isa Guha
    Ex-England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It's looking a lot brighter here and the rain seems to have gone.

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    John Shaw: Cricket at the Ageas Bowl (always a Rose to me) rained off ! I’m at Sholing a couple of miles away and haven’t had a drop although we’re screaming out for some.

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    I am in Bitterne, 2-3 miles away. Nothing here. Can you send some for my garden?

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    Re 14.25 - Joe Root's club side Sheffield Collegiate have a lovely pitch that is currently unoccupied I believe.... no rain here!

    James in Sheffield

  11. The groundstaff busily brushing the water off the covers in formation. A reminder that umpires Richard Kettleborough and Michael Gough will have an inspection in 20 minutes.

  12. Azhar Mahmood
    Former Pakistan all-rounder on Test Match Special

    England have been asking the right questions and testing the defences of the Pakistan batsman. It was the right decision for Pakistan to bat first. You are always searching for singles because the England bowlers won't give you any runs so you've got to look to be proactive. In these conditions you will get a ball that can get you out so you need to rotate the strike.

  13. Mark Ramprakash
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    If this pitch does dry out and become fairly batsman friendly England are going to lack that 90mph edge. Much has been made that Jofra Archer and Mark Wood are fit and ready to go.

    I thought Jofra bowled extremely well in the first innings at Old Trafford. Some of his comments on day two were a bit naive about not bending his back and the ball is turning already. They were ill-advised and I hope someone has had a chat with him.

  14. There is going to be an inspection in around half an hour, at 15:15 BST.

  15. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at the Ageas Bowl

    If I was to ever lose my job at the BBC, being part of the groundstaff at a Test cricket ground would be high on my list of potential alternate careers.

    You get to drive the super-sopper and there's currently a guy in the middle at the Ageas using a leaf blower to spray away standing water. Great fun.

    Does anyone want to make me an offer?

  16. Azhar Mahmood
    Former Pakistan all-rounder on Test Match Special

    We've had some good cricket. Whenever Abid Ali gets a fifty he makes it count and gets a hundred. Hopefully he can do that again and help Pakistan.

  17. Isa Guha
    Ex-England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    I did see some lightning but the umpires are conferring at the moment.

  18. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at the Ageas Bowl

    The rain has stopped. A posse of groundstaff have appeared with broomsticks to brush away the standing water on the covers.

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    Andrew Neill: Re Matthew Henry. No storms in and around Newcastle upon Tyne recently. I've had to apply factor 50 twice a day for each of the last 6 or 7 days I've been outside. Should have brought the Tests up here!!!

    Rachel T: Cricket should be played in Lincolnshire. It hasn’t rained for any of the Tests and it’s not raining now. Come east!

  20. This is how dark it got at one point at the Ageas Bowl...

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