Joe Root’s second stint in full-time charge of the England Test team is up and running with an emphatic victory.Pakistan were thrashed before tea on day three in Leeds by an innings and 103 runs to kickstart the hosts’ latest new era. The tourists lost their 20 wickets in the match inside 86 overs, with all taken by seam bowlers.None of the visitors’ batters even managed a half century second time round, with their misery completed when Muhammad Abbas took a wild swing at Jofra Archer and the ball looped up to Dan Lawrence in the gully.On day three in Leeds:
Pakistan began their second innings a daunting 238 in arrears on a pitch that was seaming and spinning.
Archer dismissed both openers early on to claim his first wickets of the match, and finished with 3-50.
Only Muhammad Rizwan, with 41, offered much resistance as the tourists were dismissed for 135 to suffer their ninth defeat in 10 away Tests.
Josh Tongue (3-43) and man-of-the-match Ollie Robinson (3-29) reprised their first-innings success to end the match with eight wickets apiece.
