Summary

  • England will need 130 to win third Test and complete 3-0 series clean sweep

  • Debutant Razaullah comes in at nine and hits brilliant 81 to set target

  • Razaullah and number 10 Abbas put on 121 for ninth wicket

  • Masood makes 95 and Babar 76 as tourists pass 200 for first time in series

  • Third Test, day three, Edgbaston

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  1. Pak 285-5

    Where's Steven Finn when you need him? Saud Shakeel pulls another bouncer just over Joe Root's head. It would have been a chance for someone taller.

    These bouncers have unsettled Pakistan. It just depends how many more overs Jofra Archer has in his legs.

  2. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on Test Match Special

    Babar Azam has played into it there. Leg side, gets almost off the face of the bat and that's a fabulous catch by Jordan Cox. He's absolutely leapt like a salmon. You feel that England could just run through the door now.

  3. Pak 279-5

    Trail by 41

    England keep the field spread to new batter Ghazi Ghori and he edges through where the slips would have been.

    Debutant Ghori made only four in the first innings. England still have a chance of finishing this today.

  4. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It was a short ball, gloved behind and that's a good catch from Jordan Cox.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Babar c Cox b Tongue 76 (Pak 278-5)

    Josh TongueGetty Images

    It was coming. The wicket Jofra Archer could have had in the previous over is taken by Josh Tongue as Babar Azam flaps at a bouncer once again.

    This time he gets a bit of bat or glove down the leg side and Jordan Cox takes a leaping catch.

    Fast bowlers across the world will have taken note of the past 20 minutes. Babar will be a marked man.

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    Funny how Test cricket goes at it's normal pace and suddenly the captaincy is bad, the bowlers are overrated. People just need to chill and enjoy a contest rather than being extreme in either direction, just enjoy a contest.

    Richard, Cambridge

  7. Pak 278-4

    Trail by 42

    Babar is flapping. He chips another just out of the reach of a fielder.

    England are not going to stop with the short stuff now.

  8. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    That's a devilishly difficult catch to take and he did catch the ball. He caught it nicely and then flicked the rope as he lobbed it up in the air. We've seen them taken so much in short-form cricket, it's a brilliant skill when it works.

  9. dropped catch

    Babar dropped on 69

    England's Theo Wylie attempts to take a catch as Pakistan's Babar Azam hits six runs off the bowling of Jofra ArcherReuters

    Is this a drop? It's almost brilliant. It's young Theo Wylie again after Babar Azam skies an upper cut.

    Wylie does plenty of the work right but can't quite take the second attempt as steps out of the field and tosses the ball back up to himself.

    It means it's six.

  10. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on Test Match Special

    Babar Azam looks like he's going to take this century on. He's got a few runs under his belt. He's probably thinking 'I'm seeing things alright. If they keep bowling them like that, I'm going to keep trying to whack them'

  11. Pak 267-4

    It is indeed bouncer time and the plan almost works immediately. Babar Azam pulls Josh Tongue and it brushes the fingertips of Joe Root at square leg.

    Saud Shakeel appeals less keen to take the short stuff on.

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    Is it just me, or has the captaincy been utterly flat and one dimensional today from root? Virtually no spin, basic fields, nothing different. What does everyone think?

    Steve, Cambridge

  13. Pak 266-4

    Trail by 54

    England continue to be blunted as Jofra Archer searches for swing and seam rather than trying to beat Pakistan's batters with pure pace. Can Joe Root create something? It looks like we're heading to the bouncer ploy.

  14. Aatif Nawaz
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It's a beautiful shot by Babar Azam. It was short, pounced on the length and smashed in front of square.

  15. Pak 264-4

    Babar 64, Shakeel 18

    Josh Tongue's economy rate takes a further beating via the slashing blade of Babar Azam. Tongue has conceded 80 runs in 13 wicketless overs so far.

    Not at his best.

  16. Sir Alastair Cook
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    England have shown Pakistan quite a lot of respect today. They've had a deep point out for a long period, certainly after an initial burst. England have been protecting those runs, but have allowed Pakistan to have those singles. Pakistan have been good at taking those singles and keeping the scoreboard ticking over. It's been good from Pakistan - I've enjoyed watching them play.

  17. Pak 257-4

    Trail by 63

    Another edge. Another gap found. Jofra Archer looks frustrated as he tucks his gold shirt back below his collar.

  18. Aatif Nawaz
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It has been better from Pakistan, and it has been good to see, but equally there is an element of frustration. Is it too little too late?

  19. Pak 250-4

    Babar 54, Shakeel 14

    Joe Root is trying again and again to get this ball changed. This hasn't been an issue so far in the series but I guess Pakistan have not batted this long before.

    It's time for a bit of Jofra.

  20. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    According to the ball-tracking for this spell by Gus Atkinson, he's never found more swing in a spell than this one in his entire Test career.