Summary

  • Crawley hits maiden Test century; half-century for Buttler

  • Crawley and Buttler came together at 127-4

  • Third Test, day one, Ageas Bowl

  • Watch Today at the Test at 19:00 BST

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Kal Sajad

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

    Pope and Crawley are good players to watch. If they have a little partnership we could be in for some delightful runs.

  2. Eng 119-3

    Yasir Shah continues. Ollie Pope advances down the wicket and an outside edge sends the ball dribbling down to gully.

    There we go, the noise levels have been cranked up with the Pakistan fielders are in full voice. Ever wondered what they're saying? This is an absolutely brilliant piece of insight from TMS' Aatif Nawaz...

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    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    Joe Root has had a curious summer, with scores of 23, 22, 17, 68 not out (when England were pushing for a declaration), 14, 42, 9* and now 29.

    He has been getting in and getting out, generally through good balls. A frustrating summer.

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    Arjun Singh: Absolutely nothing Root could do about that. Magic ball from Naseem there.

    NaseemReuters

  5. Eng 119-3

    Ollie Pope the new batsman in and he's off the mark with a dab and run. Pakistan will be hoping to just keep plugging away with the wickets. But all the while Crawley is there, England will be confident. He plays another textbook drive through mid-off for four.

    I tell you what, looking back at that Root dismissal - that really was an almost unplayable ball from Naseem.

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

    Just when you felt Root was settling down after lunch and finding his rhythm, he's fallen. He wasn't able to get close enough to the ball to be in control of the shot, and a terrific catch from Rizwan.

  7. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special

    That was an excellent delivery - back of a length and it just seamed away to take the outside edge. That was out of the blue. It caught everyone off guard.

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    Root c Rizwan b Naseem 29 (Eng 114-3)

    A beautiful ball from the young Naseem Shah and the England captain is gone.

    The perfect line, the perfect length, it seams away as Joe Root edges into the gloves of Rizwan behind the stumps, the Pakistan wicketkeeper taking a smart catch down to his right and in front of first slip.

  9. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Ageas Bowl

    The wind is now rattling the windows of the hotel. If we'd had spectators in, there would have been the contents of a small supermarket being blown across the outfield.

  10. Eng 110-2

    Yasir Shah replaces Mohammad Abbas. The leg-spinner surprises Zak Crawley with one that keeps low but England manage another single.

    The scoreboard is ticking along, four from the over.

    Crawley is a tall chap. During the series against West Indies, Carlos Brathwaite on TMS was saying how he thought Crawley was an opening bowler when he first met him.

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

    Naseem has a very controlled run-up. He's very measured.

  12. Eng 106-2

    Naseem, with barely a hair out of place on the most blustery of blusty days, charges in bowling a fifth stump line which results in a maiden over. Steady stuff.

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

    It's very important that these two get themselves in. Any chance of a single off Abbas, England have taken it, and it's important, from a team perspective, that they do that and rotate the strike.

  14. Eng 106-2

    England go for a quick single and a shy at the stumps from Shaheen Afridi strikes Zak Crawley on the ankle at the non-striker's end. That looked like it hurt but Crawley shrugs it off. They must be made of stern stuff these Kent fellas. That's a lie, I'm from Kent and I'd be crying in pain.

    Two from the over.

    CrawleyReuters

  15. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    Wind is a horrible meterological condition to do anything in, I find - but especially cricket. It buffets you. It's an invisible bully.

  16. Eng 104-2

    Short, wide and there to be hit from Naseem Shah as Joe Root is on his toes and helps himself to four easy runs past point.

    That boundary brings up the 100 for England.

    A nice comeback from Naseem who bowls back of a length with slight movement away from the batsman as Root plays inside the line.

    A flick off the hips adds one more to the England total.

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

    For batsmen starting their innings, Root's great strength, when he's playing well, is he's busy. He's not had that much time at the crease. He wants to take the attack to the bowlers but sometimes, when he hasn't got his rhyhm, is he prepared to hold back and give himself a chance to get in again? It's a tricky balance. On a wicket like this, a player of his ability should be eyeing up a big score.

  18. Eng 98-2

    Crawley 53, Root 17

    Abbas has one nipping back into Zak Crawley who is struck high on the pads. But the England batsman deals nicely with the over, shouldering his arms and letting anything wide go through to the 'keeper.

    It's such a shame we didn't get to see more of this Pakistan attack in the second Test. Do these two sides have most exciting bowling line-ups in world cricket?

  19. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    That didn't go exactly where Root intended but he got it down to the boundary.

  20. Eng 98-2

    Naseem Shah, running with the wind behind him, bowls a straight line outside off and Joe Root has a flirt at it, the ball whizzing past the bottom of the bat and into the hands of Mohammad Rizwan behind the stumps. Captain Azhar Ali thinks he heard a noise but they decide not to review. Wise decision as replays show there was no edge.

    Naseem then goes fuller, Root plays with soft hands and the ball squirts through to the third man boundary for four.