“We lost heavily to Australia here [in 2015] and bounced back very quickly the next two games”. Pakistan’s bowlers had other ideas, however.
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The end was nigh after that as the final three wickets went down for 12 runs.
His mistake was unexpected, getting much too far across his stumps to a Yasir leg-break as he was bowled round his legs from round the wicket for 43.
But Asad Shafiq had kept the scoreboard ticking over with an unbeaten 29 off 46 balls including five boundaries.
Vince struck nine fours, mainly through the offside, on his way to a Test-best 41 not out at lunch without looking assured.
‘Winning the Test match against a top side who are really good in their home conditions, that speaks volumes about this team and for all of the players’.
Hafeez’s ill-judged poke at Stuart Broad resulted in a sharp catch at second slip in the third over of the innings but Shan Masood and Azhar Ali held firm. Chris Woakes then took the ball and took his first of the innings.
Vince added just one run to his lunch score when, not moving his feet, he edged a booming drive of a Wahab Riaz delivery that moved away to second slip Younis, who this time clung on at the second attempt.
Woakes came to the wicket just before tea when Moeen Ali had a rush of blood which had Cook shaking his head in disbelief.
42-year-old Misbah, who scored a vital first-innings century, was equally effusive in his praise for his rest of the teammates especially match-winner Yasir Shah.
And when Pakistan get a sniff they go in for the kill.
England lacked penetration in their bowling and not having a front line spinner, with Moeen Ali doing the duties hurt them. I hope he will perform like that and proves to everybody he is a good man now, a good human being.
Cook insisted England would channel the fighting spirit that inspired last summer’s 3-2 Ashes series victory following a 405-run thrashing by Australia in the 2015 second Test at Lord’s. Chris Woakes ended the day with match figures of 11-101, the second best figures for an Englishman in a decade. “That comes into your mind but now it is over and he can really be more effective in the Pakistan team”. Their top order failed as they lost their first four wickets for just 60 runs. The number five batsman offered the first real resistance to Woakes’ bowling.
Shafiq then seized on a loose ball to cut Finn for four.
Then the returning Woakes saved the best ball of the day for Shafiq, bowled one short of his 50 by one that nipped up the slope of a ideal length. The wicket-keeper batsman rotated the strike well on his way to 45 runs.
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Pakistan flexed their muscles to power into a 1-0 series lead at Lord’s – and marked the achievement with celebratory press-ups! Woakes was the man to make the breakthrough again as removed Sarfraz.
