Summary

  • Bad light ends play - Rizwan 60*

  • Dropped by Buttler on 14

  • Rizwan & Abbas add 39 for 9th wicket

  • Babar 47 - caught behind off Broad

  • Only 40.2 overs - rain & bad light

  • Anderson & Broad three wickets

  • Second Test, day two, Ageas Bowl

  • England lead three-Test series 1-0

Live Reporting

Jamie Lillywhite and Callum Matthews

  1. Something is needed to lighten the mood....

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    John: I’ve played a lot of evening cricket in average light. It’s easy while batting to follow the ball out of the bowler’s hand. Fielders have no chance. The pink ball however is a different story - even without floodlights, MUCH easier to see.

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

    It's seriously gloomy here.

  4. It was always going to be a challenge to get 83.2 overs in when we finally started today at 12:30 I suppose. We've had 40.2 so far. Pakistan resumed on 126-5 and have reached 223-9.

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    All about Steve: Is it possible for @bbctms to introduce some background "booing", please to go with the "contented hum" sound effect for when the players go off because the sun isn't out?

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

    Do you think it's good cop/bad cop?

  7. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    You don't generally get both umpires going into one dressing room. But they have both gone into the Pakistan dressing room.

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    I, for one, am absolutely furious. I've stayed up all day (I have a nocturnal routine) to watch the cricket, all for it to be cancelled by the very conditions I live through during the night. Why on earth have I stayed up for this atrocity?!

    Nicky from London

  9. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    The umpires are heading off. The groundstaff are heading off. That looks rather ominous.

  10. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I reckon we're going to struggle to get back on.

  11. Thanks Callum. Well at least Joe Root has something to deflect the anger away from his captaincy.

  12. Right I'm going to go and enjoy the Stockport sun for five minutes.

    Jamie Lillywhite is going to take back over and hopefully will be live texting some cricket before too long.

  13. It's safe to say Andy Zaltzman is not a happy bunny right now...

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  14. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    The umpires will be feeling the pressure to get back out there but they are coming off too early. The reading they are taking is one thing but it is not dark enough to not be playing.

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    Every single player wants to carry on. Both umpires are reluctant to go off. The millions of viewers around the world are desperate to watch cricket - but regs are regs apparently - what a load of garbage. I think I speak for everyone when I say I am genuinely angry at this farcical carry on.

    Fraser in Widnes

  16. One thing I will say, I really hope we don't come back out and England get asked to bowl Dom Bess and Joe Root.

    That is a part of the game I absolutely hate.

  17. Here's how England dismissed Mohammad Abbas.

    NB: *Full and straight will probably get a tailender more times than not*.

  18. The two umpires have stayed in the middle and are talking to the head groundsman.

    That is a small encouraging sign at least.

  19. At least in the nine balls we did get after tea we got a wicket.

    Pakistan also added eight runs. It doesn't sound a lot but with the conditions we've got today and look like we're going to have for the rest of the Test every run is a right slog.

  20. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at the Ageas Bowl

    In cricketing terms it is quite dark. These are the type of conditions players tend to be taken off.

    But, surely they could still be playing now? It'd be OK.