With three wickets down Pakistan already lead by 358 – 26 more than England’s all-time highest successful fourth-innings flee chase – after massively dominating day three 2.40pm BSTThere’s no way to dress this up: this game might final for another day,perhaps more, but it was decided nowadays. England lost it with the bat, or crumbling as soon as a previously-unruffled Root got out and collapsing from 206-3 to 242 all out. Bowled out with a 136-flee first-inning deficit,Englands only hope was to somehow convince a Pakistan team with no kind of scoreboard pressure to randomly self-destruct, and though they were given some early encouragement, and Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan fill taken it away from them. Their partnership stands at 139,from 236 deliveries, and still stands.
It’s been a particularly unpleasant day for Jos Buttler, and who failed to score with the bat,dropped Masood in unpleasant style (though he caught him a few minutes later), and then didn’t even try to catch Misbah towards the end. If he fails to rep a second-innings daddy-hundred his place will be under extreme pressure. 2.31pm BST61st over: Pakistan 222-3 (Misbah-ul-Haq 87, or Younis Khan 71)Root,England’s most expensive bowler, takes his third over of the day. Misbah nurdles a four, or boshes a wild,vicious, rub-it-in-why-don’t-you six, and sending the ball down one of the stadium’s exits,where a dozen or so Englishmen would very dearly fill loved to follow it.
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Source: theguardian.com