England were made to roll up their sleeves and find any glory the hard way as Pakistan refused to buckle on day three.
Despite England’s three frontline seam bowlers sending down three of the finest deliveries of the game that all captured Pakistani wickets, the collapse that they hoped for didn’t materialise. At 198-4 with a target of 355 to aim for, Pakistan will have walked off the field fancying their chances of pulling off a stunning win of their own, but as Jack Leach proved with the late wicket of Imam-ul-Haq, England can strike at any time.
Unsurprisingly James Anderson led the way with a beauty that left Mohammad Rizwan utterly bemused after the ball pitched, nipped away and beat the outside edge of his bat to clip the off stump. Rizwan shouldn’t have looked so shocked though, it is the sort of the thing that Anderson has been doing to the world’s best batsmen for 20 years.
