Summary

  • England muscle remarkable 506-4 on first day of first Test

  • First time 500 runs have been scored on opening day of a Test

  • Brook hits six fours in one over on way to first Test century

  • Pope, Crawley & Duckett also hit tons for England

  • Crawley & Duckett put on 233 for first wicket

  • Crawley's century the fastest by an England opener in Tests

Live Reporting

Ffion Wynne, Um-E-Aymen Babar and Matthew Henry

  1. Here's our BBC Test Match Special team, who are out in Rawalpindi ready to report on the series.

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  2. From the press box

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  3. Away from England, there are also four debutants for Pakistan in Saud Shakeel, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Ali and Zahid Mehmood.

    Judging from what everyone's saying about the pitch, I have a feeling they'll be spending the entirety of their first day of Test cricket in the field. Fun.

  4. Well, after a bit of a rollercoaster build-up, we've now got two Test debutants for England in Liam Livingstone and Will Jacks.

    We've seen what Livingstone can do in T20 cricket in particular, but Jacks is rather more established in red-ball cricket. Saying that, he hit 84 off 48 balls in the warm-up match, so it's fair to say he is ready for 'Bazball'.

    You can read all about Will Jacks from Ciaran McCarthy's piece here.

    Will Jacks batting in the netsGetty Images

  5. The teams

    DebutsGetty Images

    Pakistan: Abdullah Shafique, Imam Ul Haq, Azhar Ali, Babar Azam (capt), Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Agha Salman, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Ali, Zahid, Mahmood

    England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope (wk), Joe Root, Ben Stokes (capt), Harry Brook, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Ollie Robinson, Jack Leach, James Anderson.

  6. Pakistan skipper Babar Azam: "We would have batted first but we will try to do our best.

    "It looks like a good wicket and I think the first hour and a half will help the fast bowlers.

    "Our team is three fast bowler and one spinner."

  7. England captain Ben Stokes on Sky Sports: "In the subcontinent you always want to make first use of the pitch.

    "We've had some illness going round but we were really excited to get started.

    "It's not been ideal obviously, to start our tour like this, but hopefully we'll be fine.

    "The wicket looks like it's going to play quite nicely, so hopefully we can put on a big score. Will Jacks is coming in for his debut because Ben Foakes unfortunately isn't feeling right, Ollie Pope is going to keep wicket."

  8. England win the toss and bat first

    Ben Stokes gets his first job of the day done, and opts to have a bat first.

    He looks relieved, and says it was an obvious choice, suggesting the pitch is very flat.

  9. A reminder that we weren't entirely sure what was going to happen until the early (er) hours of this morning because of the virus going round the England camp.

    But thankfully, they are able to field an XI - you can read the latest from Stephan Shemilt out in Pakistan here.

  10. Welcome

    Good morning!

    Coffee in hand, hot water bottle ready and the cricket is actually going ahead - let's get going.