Live updates from the fourth day at Old TraffordBob Willis Trophy: Durham v Lancs and more – county cricket live!Women’s World Cup pushed back to 2022 due to pandemicDrop Geoff an email | Tweet @GeoffLemonSport 2.50pm BST That’s huge! Naseem does the job, with the ability he has to get one to leap off the surface! No deviation there that I could see but the ball jumps at Root, much like the one that got Ollie Pope in the first dig. It takes the shoulder of the bat and so even with the slips hanging back, it carries comfortably enough to Babar at first slip. What a ball, what a moment. 2.45pm BST 38th over: England 96-2 (Root 42, Stokes 4) How’s that from Root? A reverse sweep for four to start the over! Yasir just missed the patch of rough on the inside line. I don’t know if Root had time to spot that or if he’d premeditated the shot, perhaps it was on the line more than anything. But it works out for him, as there was no chance for an explosion of turf and a misbehaving ball, and he cleanly gets the full face to third man. Root cuts a single. Stokes facing Yasir for the first time, who again lands straight of the patch of rough, and Stokes shoulders arms as it turns and would be going well down leg. Doesn’t make the most of the pitch in this over, Yasir. Continue reading…
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