Sloppy England leave Mark Wood in the lurch

Taking 10 wickets in Test cricket is hard graft. So when England's bowlers had beaten the bat 42 times in 87 overs, as they did on day two at Lord's according to CricViz, created 14 chances and watched five go down, they'd be forgiven for wondering if maybe, actually, franchise cricket really is the future. That the ECB's 100-ball format, while riddled with nonsense, is not so bad. After all, they'd have had their feet up in the bar by early afternoon and no one interested in cricket would have been there to watch such a chastening day's play.

Pakistan started on 50 for 1 and finished it 300 runs to the better for the loss of just seven more. Granted, Babar Azam is another casualty after he wore a nasty blow on the forearm that required him to leave the field. But it will take England more than a bit of ice and a night's kip to undo today's damage.

There were times England could not find the right lengths. But they adjusted well, cycling through a variety of plans, partly because they were not able to find the movement that Pakistan produced to