Postpublished at 08:53 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
Aatif Nawaz
BBC Test Match Special commentator
Leach is building pressure and trying to induce that mistake from Pakistan.
Summary
Pakistan close on 181 - still trailing by 476
England's bowlers struggle on placid pitch
Shafique survives on 54 after edge behind bounces into keeper's glove
England bowled out for 657 - losing last six wickets for 142
Total is England's highest ever in Asia
Brook caught on the boundary for entertaining 153 off 116 balls
Brook hits 27 in one over on way to bringing up his 150
Stokes charges Naseem and hits his first ball of the day for six
Postpublished at 08:53 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
Pak 31-0published at 11 overs
Jack Leach is already looking good rhythm, skipping in and repeatedly hitting the same length that is troubling Imam Ul-Haq.
17 dots from 18 deliveries so far for Leach.
Image source, bbcPak 31-0published at 10 overs
Very good, Jules. The creativity of TMS readers knows no bounds.
Abdullah Shafique helps himself to two twos from Ollie Robinson's latest over.
Robinson is bowling a decent line and length just outside off, and at a good pace, but there's little assistance out there from the surface
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Pak 27-0published at 9 overs
Pressure lifted. Imam Ul-Haq dispatches Jack Leach over mid-wicket for six.
That's the first runs Leach has conceded after 11 straight dots.
Postpublished at 08:45 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
Aatif Nawaz
BBC Test Match Special commentatorLeach has bowled 10 dot balls in a row and this is what Pakistan struggle to do. You can see the nervousness getting to the batter.
Pak 21-0published at 8.1 overs
That was a bit of a loose swing from Imam Ul-Haq and he very nearly holes out to mid-wicket.
Jack Leach building pressure here.
Postpublished at 08:43 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket writer in RawalpindiPakistan fans inside the ground are chanting "Welcome, welcome, England welcome".
Postpublished at 08:42 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
Aatif Nawaz
BBC Test Match Special commentatorEngland are creating a few little moments hear. Robinson beating the outside edge and you can't afford to make on mistakes on a pitch like this.
Pak 21-0published at 8 overs
Ollie Robinson is bending his back at the other end as England seek Early wickets.
He beats the outside edge with a delivery that just shapes away from Abdullah Shafique.
Robinson then is slightly too full and Shafique capitalises, playing a lovely drive through the covers for four.
Great, classic cricket shot.
Postpublished at 08:41 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
Vic Marks
Former England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialThat is the first set back England have had for the absence of Foakes.
Postpublished at 08:40 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
In fact...snicko has just shown that there was a faint nick on that Jack Leach delivery - but Ollie Pope had put the ball down anyway.
On a pitch like this you can ill-afford to let chances like that slip by.
Pak 17-0published at 7 overs
Ooh, Jack Leach is rushing his deliveries through a little quicker and gets one to beat the outside edge of Imam Ul-Haq's bat.
That has got the England fielders excited.
Postpublished at 08:34 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
Vic Marks
Former England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialIf you get beyond seven in this Pakistan line-up you think you can finish it off pretty quickly but it is still a struggle to see how you will get wickets. You need some batsman error.
Postpublished at 08:34 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
Abdullah Shafique and Imam Ul-Haq walk out to the middle to join the England players.
It looks like Jack Leach will be having a twirl first up after lunch.
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Postpublished at 08:31 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
If you are just joining us, welcome. A reminder of what has happened so far this morning:
England added 151 runs to their overnight score before being bowled out for 657, their highest ever total in Asia.
Harry Brook, who began the day on 101, smashed 27 off one over to reach his 150 before eventually being dismissed for 153 off 116 balls.
Pakistan then survived a tricky pre-lunch spell to reach 17-0.
But with the pitch offering little for the bowlers, there could be a long few sessions ahead for England.
No Balls podcastpublished at 08:23 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
BBC SoundsEngland bowler Kate Cross is in the West Indies, Alex Hartley is in Pakistan, but the two come together for the latest No Balls podcast, which is now live!
There's two series to discuss, lots of emails to read and an awful lot of 'icks'.
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JamboJunior: Andrew Cattick (bowled a decent fe-line and length)
Mr Quixote: Cat Sciver. Alice Catsey. Marizanne Katt
Andrew Skinner: You would have to really worry for Dickie Bird umpiring!
Are England changing Test cricket forever?published at 08:09 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022
Our reporter in Rawalpindi Stephan Shemilt posed the question last night are England changing Test cricket forever?
"It will take a long time to know for certain, but we could be witnessing an irreversible shift, like when Dick Fosbury gave his flop to the high jump, Babe Ruth brought regular home runs to baseball or the Netherlands played their brand of 'total football'," he says.
"Even without the confusion brought by the illness in the England camp, the lead-up to the first Test included the following: the Sky commentary team inadvertently commandeering the TMS bus, TMS producer Tim Peach getting a rather large electric shock when trying to fix the broadcast equipment, scorer Andy Zaltzman's laptop charger smouldering with smoke and Vic Marks taking lunch to the Rawalpindi Stadium inside his hat, like an off-spinning Paddington Bear."