However, spinner Yasir Shah again ripped through England’s line-up to finish with 10 wickets in the match. Yasir Shah made the English batsmen struggle on the crease with his magnificent spin bowling as he was able to take 6 wickets in the 1st innings.
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Then in sunny conditions, but with swing available and on a pitch offering a little variable bounce, Stuart 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.
Shah had taken two wickets for two runs in six balls and England were 139 for six.
Moeen Ali (right) was bowled after an extravagant, yet ultimately unsuccessful, charge to leg-spinner Yasir Shah.
Yasir Shah marked his first Test outside of Asia and the United Arab Emirates by taking 10 wickets in the match as Pakistan beat England by 75 runs in their series opener at Lord’s on Sunday.
At lunch, England were 90 for three in their second innings, needing a further 193 runs to reach their victory target of 283.
Rahat Ali was the one who began things positively for Pakistan, removing England’s top three to reduce the home team to 47 for 3.
But he stood between England and a truly telling surge through Pakistan’s middle order, twice surviving lbw calls on DRS – Jake Ball denied by the thinnest of inside-edges and Steven Finn by the Lord’s slope past leg-stump.
While Yasir was the worthy recipient of many a plaudit, seamer Rahat Ali claimed the first three England wickets to fall, while Pakistan’s victory was sealed by Mohammad Amir in his first Test match since the fallout of the 2010 spot-fixing scandal.
And at tea on the fourth day, England were stuttering on 155 for six with Jonny Bairstow (28) and Chris Woakes (five) the not out batsmen.
Earlier, unbeaten at 110 not out, Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq could add just four more runs to his total before being clean bowled by paceman Broad.
Asad Shafiq was the top scorer in the innings as he made 49 runs from 96 balls with the help of three boundaries.
Earlier, Stuart Broad took both wickets as Pakistan was bowled out for 215 after resuming on its overnight 214-8, giving the tourists an overall lead of 282 runs.
He was nearly in tears as he trudged off, his 206-minute innings ended when he misjudged an innocuous delivery from Yasir and was bowled.
Amir, who finished with two for 39, can now look back on happier memories at the ground where his world turned upside down six years ago when he was caught deliberately bowling no-balls against England in a Test, subsequently jailed and then banned from the game for five years. Pakistan posted a total of 339 runs in the 1st innings.
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But to show how little can be predicted accurately in this game, two players who looked out of touch in the first innings, Vince and Ballance, managed to get past 40 and look as though they might establish themselves.
