It was also his first Test since completing a three-month ban after he tested positive for the masking agent chlortalidone. Later on, Shah a played major role with the ball to hand Pakistan a sensational victory with a day to spare. “The team was really hoping that we get a chance, because I got a chance after scoring a hundred”, said Misbah, the oldest man to score a Test hundred in 82 years, of his press-up celebration.
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England were bowled out for 272, adding only 19 runs to their overnight score, as a Yasir Shah-inspired Pakistan took a first-innings lead of 67.
Moeen Ali (right) was bowled after an extravagant, yet ultimately unsuccessful, charge to leg-spinner Yasir Shah.
Woakes, only recalled to Test duty after fellow all-rounder Ben Stokes was injured during the preceding Sri Lanka series, now had an overall return of 11 for 101 – the first time he had taken at least 10 wickets in a Test match.
Rahat Ali ripped through England’s top order with all three wickets for 36 runs, before Vince and Gary Ballance, not out on 15, steadied the ship. We always believe if we cross 300 runs (Pakistan made 339 in their first innings), we are very much in the game.
Yasir, however, turned momentum in Pakistan’s favour, ripping through England’s middle order to claim his fifth five-wicket haul in 13 tests.
Jonny Bairstow was the top-scorer for England with a score of 48 runs.
Left-arm quick Amir, at the scene of his 2010 spot-fixing crime, ended the match when he bowled last man Jake Ball.
“You don’t mind getting bowled out sometimes and you can play bad shots but we’ve played too many bad shots”, said Cook, who conceded England were 100 runs light in their first innings.
Vince fell to a variation ball that skidded on, leaving him still searching for his first substantial Test innings, and Ballance’s first attempt at this level since last summer ended prematurely when he pushed forward and missed a leg-break.
But when Bairstow went two runs short of his half century the game looked up, and the tourists mopped up the tail comfortably with Yasir Shah (4-69) the pick of the bowlers.
Then in sunny conditions, but with swing available and on a pitch offering a little variable bounce, Broad struck in only his second over when Mohammad Hafeez fenced a catch high to Joe Root at second slip to go for a duck. And he made it five fours in six balls when an edge over point and a more authoritative cut off Yasir took him to 39.
Azhar Ali (23) then fell leg before for the second time in the match to a desperately tight umpire’s call as Woakes reduced Pakistan to 59 for three.
Yasir Shah picked up four wickets in the second innings.
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In the fourth day of the ongoing test series between England and Pakistan, Pakistan set a target of 283 runs for England at Lord’s stadium on Sunday.
