If you needed any suggestion as to the lengths England would go in search of wickets on a bland Rawalpindi pitch on day three, you only needed to wait one ball to find out. With the ball in offspinner Joe Root’s hands, he ran up and bowled a bouncer.
After two sessions of dominant Pakistan batting yesterday which had seen them start this morning at 181-0, England claimed the morning session as their own with three wickets to give themselves more than a glimmer of hope of bowling Pakistan out.
