{"id":43590,"date":"2018-06-02T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/02\/england-v-pakistan-start-of-day-two-of-second-test-delayed-by-rain-live\/"},"modified":"2018-06-02T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T14:01:22","slug":"england-v-pakistan-start-of-day-two-of-second-test-delayed-by-rain-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=43590","title":{"rendered":"England v Pakistan: start of day two of second Test delayed by rain \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over-by-over updates from the action at HeadingleySign up for The Spin, our weekly cricket emailEmail rob.smyth@theguardian.com with any thoughts 3.01pm BST 41st over: England 132-2 (Root 40, Bess 11) \u201cI agree that Root is much maligned (averaging over 50 when he never scores hundreds is pretty remarkable) but isn\u2019t it a bit misleading to claim he\u2019s the only Englishman in the last 50 years to average over 50,\u201d says David Murray. \u201cI would guess that plenty of batsmen in that period averaged over 50 for a spell but failed to retire with that average &#8211; Gooch, Gower, R. Smith, Trescothick, Strauss, Cook. Or am I wrong.\u201dI don\u2019t think many of them did. Robin Smith certainly did and maybe Strauss for a while. Not sure about the rest. It\u2019s a fair point though. That said, I don\u2019t think any of them were averaging 50 at such an advanced stage of their career. 2.57pm BST 40th over: England 127-2 (Root 39, Bess 7) Amir slips another good delivery past Root\u2019s outside edge. The sloppy start continues with a couple of overthrows, and then Bess nails a glorious extra cover drive for four. This morning, Sam Curran said that Bess (0 not out overnight) fancied a first Test hundred. It\u2019s been a fine start for England, with 21 from the first three overs. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2018\/jun\/02\/england-pakistan-second-test-day-two-live\" target=\"_blank\">England v Pakistan: start of day two of second Test delayed by rain \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over-by-over updates from the action at HeadingleySign up for The Spin, our weekly cricket emailEmail rob.smyth@theguardian.com with any thoughts 3.01pm BST 41st over: England 132-2 (Root 40, Bess 11) \u201cI agree that Root is much maligned (averaging over 50 when he never scores hundreds is pretty remarkable) but isn\u2019t it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}