It really did lash down for 10 minutes over this side of town. The water rushed just under our bungalow window and carried off the new lease car. Weāve found it on top of a pile of 15 wrecked cars, fortunately not too badly damaged as it was on the top.
Itāll need a couple of hours to dry out in West End.
Or not. Back on at 4
126-5 didnāt merit a mention?
The Bookshop re-opened at 4pm.
Urban Island High and Dry 5.5%. Quite ironic as I had been bailing water out of my porch before I went there.
147-5 Anderson & Woakes got movement but no threat.
Broad & Curran now having a go
Lunch - Pakistan are 155 for 5
171-7
Anderson to Yasir Shah, OUT
Pitched up, chewed up, gobbled up! Yasir again throws the kitchen sink at a full ball in the channel, but only manages to gurgle an outside edge through to Buttler! Classic outswinger and Yasir bites, another one on the reel for Anderson
Yasir Shah c ā Buttler b Anderson 5 (16b 1x4 0x6) SR: 31.25
176-8
Woakes to Mohammad Rizwan, OUT
Oh no, Shaheen! Heās been run out by a direct hit at the non-strikerās end! Rizwan can only look on aghast as he dabbed towards the cordon, then turned to see his team-mate halfway down the pitch - āNo run!ā was the only call in town, but Afridiās handbrake turn wasnāt enough, as Sibley threw down the stumps after swooping from gully
Shaheen Shah Afridi run out (Sibley) 0 (19b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
Curran better score some runs, cos he aināt doing much with the ball
Pakistan 205-8, means England will probably struggle to make any follow onā¦
Bowling in these situations just seems to always be shit
223-9 match delayed by bad lightā¦
Pakistan all out 236
So weāve had some play this morning and England have finally dispatched Pakistan.
236 ao, last wicket added 60 runs.
Burns edges the first ball he faces, luckily it drops short of the slip fielder, that would have been some start for Pakistanā¦
4th ball, same thing, genuine edge, pouched in the slips, good bowling.
0-1
This is some hostile bowling from Pakistan.
Sibley just got caught by a rising ball on the top of the pelvic bone, that looks like that hurt that did.
And theyāre actually playing some cricket in glorious sunshine, and England have manged to avoid the follow on by not losing any more wickets.
44-1 trail by 192
29 overs gone, 84-1
Really they should have tried to make a result out of this gameā¦
