Player of the Match
Player of the Match

2.50pm Right, that seems to have done the trick. Covers off, Pakistan in a huddle, play is imminent. Hurrah!

2.42pm Welcome back. Pakistan dug in with resolve after a catastrophic start, but will Sarfraz Ahmed's century be enough to level the series? Over to the bowlers... or not, as it happens, because we appear to have a brief rain delay... just the hover-cover at this stage. Hopefully we'll be back on shortly.

Omer: "Pakistan has managed to give a lesson to themselves that if you keep scoreboard ticking, you can recover from worst positions even. Also it relieves the pressure. And Sarfraz was the architect for this. He played a Virat like innings" Gosh, does praise get any higher?

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Pakistan have managed to get themselves 251 which is a decent recovery from 2 for 3. A wonderful century from Sarfraz Ahmed and a very handy career-best from Imad Wasim. England's bowling, especially Wood and Woakes, was impressive but some of the ground fielding a little sloppy. Pakistan have Yasir in their attack today, so could be an interesting afternoon on a dry pitch. We'll be back in half an hour at 2.45pm for the chase. Here are some pics of the match. Hopefully we'll have that catch added to the mix shortly

49.5
W
Woakes to Mohammad Amir, OUT, gets the yorker in this time, and there's a run out to end the innings...Woakes fielded off his own bowling, Imad had already set off to try and get the strike back. Woakes was about to hurl at the striker's end before realising he could walk up to the non-striker's stumps and take the bails off

Mohammad Amir run out 6 (7m 5b 1x4 0x6) SR: 120.00

49.5
1w
Woakes to Mohammad Amir, 1 wide, this comes out a little wrong, another slower ball, wide outside off stump
49.4
4
Woakes to Mohammad Amir, FOUR, he's connected just well enough to clear mid-off with this drive, beats a leaping Moeen Ali, and brings up Pakistan's 250

PAK tour of ENG 2016 News

Root continues

4

No. of consecutive fifties for Root in ODIs, including his inns in this match. He made 65, 93 and 61 in his last 3 ODI inns.

Morgan finds form

12

No. of consecutive ODI innings without a 50+ score for Morgan, before this. His last fifty was 76 vs Pak in Abu Dhabi last year. He made 33* in the first ODI of this series.

Collapse and rebuild

0

No. of innings which had 50+ partnerships for wickets 4th to 6th after the first 3 wkts has single-digit stands, before this. Pak's inns today is the first such.

Rare centuries

3

No. of wicketkeepers to score 100s in ODIs at Lord's, including Sarfraz Ahmed. Sangakkara and Buttler were the first to do so, both in the same match in 2014.

Varied numbers vs Eng

3

No. of fifties for Sarfraz Ahmed in ODIs against England, in just 5 innings. Against the same oppositions in Tests, he hasn't made a single 50+ in 13 innings.

Top-order collapsed

1

Run added by Pakistan's top-3 batsmen in this match - lowest for any team against England in ODIs. Previous lowest: 3 runs by SL in Johannesburg 2009-10.

At Lord's

4-1

Pakistan's win-loss record against England at Lord's in the last 5 ODIs between the two teams. In their last meet here in 2010, Pak won by 38 runs.