{"id":43714,"date":"2018-06-03T15:53:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/03\/england-v-pakistan-second-test-day-three-live\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:53:42","slug":"england-v-pakistan-second-test-day-three-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=43714","title":{"rendered":"England v Pakistan: second Test, day three \u2013\u00a0live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live updates from the third day of the second TestEngland lead by 189 on first innings after Buttler\u2019s 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\u2019s end, and four runs become none. He\u2019s going to counter-attack, as he always does.\u201cJuly 1975, Edgbaston &#8211; 1st Ashes Test of the summer,\u201d begins Gary. \u201cThe 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 &#8211; who scared the hell out of me &#8211; 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\u2019m 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 &#8230;\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2018\/jun\/03\/england-v-pakistan-second-test-day-three-live\" target=\"_blank\">England v Pakistan: second Test, day three \u2013\u00a0live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live updates from the third day of the second TestEngland lead by 189 on first innings after Buttler\u2019s 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 [&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-43714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714","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=43714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}