If Headingley was a mismatch, then Pakistan are providing England with a far sterner test at Lord’s.An intriguing first day of the second Test ended with the hosts 248-9 when bad light stopped play prematurely just after 6pm. The tourists, who had won the toss and chosen to bowl, made good use of the conditions in the first and last sessions of a truncated day’s play and may have ended the more content of the sides, with Muhammad Abbas finding some rhythm.After a rain-delayed start:
Abbas capitalised on muggy conditions to take three early wickets, including his 900th in first-class cricket, and finished with 4-56
Jordan Cox (55) lead the England recovery with a second successive Test half century
Wicket-keeper Jamie Smith (61) found some fluency to register only his third 50 in 18 Test innings
Substitute Salman Agha took a stunning catch to dismiss Cox, but drops and misfields abounded yet again.
