Summary

  • Captains agree draw at 18:05 BST

  • Eng 110-4: Crawley 53, Abbas 2-28

  • Sibley & Crawley add 91 for 2nd wicket

  • 153.3 overs bowled in match

  • Ninth shortest Test in England

  • Rain delays start by four hours

  • Pakistan 236: Rizwan 72, Broad 4-56

  • England lead three-Test series 1-0

  • Second Test, Ageas Bowl

  1. Eng 61-1published at 24 overs

    Pak 236

    Exquisite cover drive from Crawley as Shaheen over-pitches, a fourth boundary for the tall England batsman. We have now gone past the Lord's Test of 1987 in the fewest number of overs bowled in an English Test table. This match is seventh in that list now.

  2. Postpublished at 16:47 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I've been impressed with Zak Crawley. He looks to get on the back foot and cut, pull and drive and looks a lot more attacking than Dom Sibley. Sibley is old school, get yourself in there and grind away.

    These two work quite nicely together.

  3. Eng 57-1published at 23 overs

    Sibley 21, Crawley 29

    The first spin of the innings in the diminutive form of Yasir Shah, who took eight wickets in the first Test at Old Trafford. Excellent footwork from Crawley, advancing down the pitch and thumping it to the long-off boundary.

  4. How's stat?!published at 16:45 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    This is the seventh time that Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley have had a partnership in Test cricket. It is the fourth time that they've reached fifty - in fact four of their last five partnerships have reached the landmark.

    The exception was when Roston Chase dismissed Crawley for a duck in Manchester earlier in the summer.

    Zak Crawley and Dom SibleyImage source, Getty Images
  5. Eng 52-1published at 22 overs

    A brief flurry of excitement from Shaheen as he traps Sibley on the pad but it was high and pitching outside the leg stump. And he might have got an edge as well. Pakistan lost one review yesterday but still have two at their disposal.

  6. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 16:38 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

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    Tom Fish: Re Michael Vaughan's comments that Rory Burns hasn't got any runs for a while, he got 57 and 90 in the final Test against WI and was the second highest run scorer in the series.

  7. Eng 52-1published at 21 overs

    Sibley 21, Crawley 24

    Naseem loses the leg slip and puts a man on the square leg boundary for the hook. Then it's the old three-card trick as he fires in the yorker. Enterprising from the teenager, but Sibley is up to it and digs it out for a single.

  8. Postpublished at 16:35 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

    Two fours apiece for the England batsmen, here's Sibley guiding one safely away to the boundary.

  9. Postpublished at 16:34 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    This is like a glorified net really.

  10. Postpublished at 16:33 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

    Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at the Ageas Bowl

    Simon Mann has taken over commentary in his sunglasses. I did not expect that to happen in this match.

  11. Eng 51-1published at 20 overs

    Sibley 20, Crawley 24

    The fifty partnership from 114 balls for the second wicket, completed courtesy of a Shaheen no-ball. The big man then concedes a wide for height with a huge looping bouncer.

    Jimmy Anderson looks on from the balcony in his dark sunglasses and England tracksuit. He will not want to have to don the whites this afternoon.

  12. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 16:28 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

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    JdbluesME: I reckon this Test is heading for a draw.

  13. 'Crawley offers so much'published at 16:27 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

    Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England women's batter on Test Match Special

    Well done to England - it is two young batsman trying to establish themselves in the side and we've seen good signs from both of them.

    It's good to see them applying themselves. For me, Zak Crawley offers so much. He's got a simple and clear technique and I like the fact that early on he was able to bat outside the crease and nullify the threat of Mohammad Abbas.

  14. drinks break

    Drinks breakpublished at 19 overs

    Eng 49-1

    Are we going to have a bit of Bodyline? Naseem tries from round the wicket and has a leg slip in addition to the three conventional ones. No alarms for Sibley though, and he gets a thick edge safely away through the gully for his second boundary.

    Quafftide - the players take drinks.

  15. 'England need to invest in this top three'published at 16:20 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    It’s a top three that England need to invest in for a while. Rory Burns hasn’t scored any runs for a while - I’m slightly concerned that his technique hasn’t quite looked after him in tricky conditions this summer.

  16. Eng 45-1published at 18 overs

    A change of ends for Shaheen and Sibley guides him safely backward of square cover for his opening boundary in the warm afternoon Hampshire sunshine.

  17. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 16:16 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

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    Tom: And that’s the follow-on avoided, phew! Well batted England.

  18. Eng 38-1published at 17 overs

    Crawley pauses Naseem to allow a lone gull to meander past. Thousands of them near where I live. And they're not quiet or respecting of time either.

  19. 'Crawley will want to show he can get stuck in'published at 16:10 British Summer Time 17 August 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Zak Crawley will be thinking 'well hold on a minute, if anyone is going to be the person to move aside for someone, it's probably going to be me so I want to show the coaches that I can get stuck in and play these kind of conditions and apply myself', so there are things to tick off.

    I've been in this situation a few times and it is tricky. It's difficult for the bowlers too because all they are thinking is 'I'm running up' but there are wickets to be had and batsmen's minds to get into.

  20. Eng 35-1published at 16 overs

    Pak 236

    Accuracy again from Abbas, 42 dot balls for him so far.