England v Pakistan: second Test, day three – live!

Live updates from the third day of the second TestEngland lead by 189 on first innings after Buttler’s 80*Email your thoughts to rob.smyth@theguardian.com 2.53pm BST 27th over: Pakistan 94-4 (Salahuddin 22, Sarfraz 8) Bess has a slip and short leg for Salahuddin, who is playing carefully. A quicker ball is worked away for a single to complete a quiet over. 2.50pm BST 26th over: Pakistan 92-4 (Salahuddin 21, Sarfraz 7) Woakes continued, having made the replacement ball kick nastily in the previous over. Sarfraz nails a straight drive so well that the ball hits the stumps at the non-striker’s end, and four runs become none. He’s going to counter-attack, as he always does.“July 1975, Edgbaston – 1st Ashes Test of the summer,” begins Gary. “The nice England of Edrich, Amiss, Fletcher, Underwood etc who were all friendly and polite to a boy on the boundary; against an Australia with a brace of Chappells, Lillee, Marsh and Thomson – who scared the hell out of me – and the England team that they trampled underfoot, winning by an innings. I think Thomson may have been faster, but Lillie was the most lethal bowler I ever saw live. In retrospect I’m sure they were not actively mean; it was just like watching amateurs against professionals. Snow, Greig and the rest were really fine players, but in that match the Aussies were truly fearsome. After that match I thought fast bowlers were like Lillie and Thomson, spinners like Underwood, keepers like Marsh and Knott; I found out in the years that followed that they are not …” Continue reading…
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