At lunch, England were 90-3 in their second innings, needing a further 193 runs to reach their victory target of 283.
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England were seemingly on track to take the game into a fifth day, but Yasir struck twice after tea, and paceman Mohammad Amir took the final wicket required.
Yasir Shah starred for Pakistan in a 75-run win over England in the opening match of a four-Test series, with the home side bowled out for 207 in 75.5 overs on Sunday (July 17), the fourth day of the first Test.
“We’ve lost here before, Australia thrashed us here, but we bounced back”.
But Ahmed should have been out for 36 when Finn took the outside only for wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow, going to his right, to drop the chance as the ball hit his wrist. We lost heavily to Australia at Lord’s a year ago and bounced back very quickly, winning the next two Tests. “I dedicate that performance to my team because they were supporting me”.
Cook, who singled out “the brilliant” Chris Woakes for special praise after he took 11 wickets in the match and chipped in with 58 runs over the two innings, said: “Its never nice to lose, and by so many runs”.
Pakistan’s Yasir Shah took six wickets to dismiss England for 272 and hand Pakistan a first-innings lead of 67 on the third day of the first test at Lord’s.
Pakistani pacer Rahat Ali took all three wickets in the morning session.
“I’m disappointed that none of our batsmen pushed on today”.
But a review showed the ball missing leg stump and Younis survived.
Yasir gloved behind trying to pull, and was well-caught high above his head by Bairstow.
“Now it´s over he can really be more effective in the Pakistan team”, insisted Misbah ahead of the second Test at Manchester´s Old Trafford, which starts on Friday.
Rahat trapped the England captain with a ball that straightened him up and drew the edge behind.
Stuart Broad only managed to add six runs to his overnight total before he fell to a full inswinger from Wahab.
They were the best figures by an overseas spinner against England at Lord’s since Sid Pegler’s seven for 65 for South Africa back in 1912.
Woakes was unbeaten on 35.
What worked in his first-innings century, however, immediately backfired second time round as he fell for a second-ball duck – very well-caught by Alex Hales on the deep midwicket boundary after climbing into an ambitiously early slog-sweep at the off-spinner.
Azhar Ali joined Shan Masood to help the tourists to 40 for one at lunch – but Woakes was already posing plenty of problems, and he upped the ante in the afternoon.
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Misbah-ul-Haq’s side went on an army boot camp before the tour to improve their infamously poor fitness, and batsman Younis Khan led the squad in performing a routine of press-ups followed by a salute in front of the ground’s famous pavilion.
