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Saturday, 16 July 2016

Shah stars with bat despite Woakes heroics

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Pakistan were 214 for eight in their second innings at the nearby, a lead of 281 runs. 

Yasir Shah made a helpful unbeaten 30 in the wake of featuring with the ball to leave Pakistan very much set come stumps on the third day of an interesting first Test against England at Lord's on Saturday. 

Pakistan were 214 for eight in their second innings at the nearby, a lead of 281 keeps running, after leg-spinner Shah took six for 72 in England's first innings 272. 

Be that as it may, at stumps he was shaking hands with Chris Woakes after the Warwickshire all-rounder had taken five for 31 to take after the exuberant paceman's Test-best pull of six for 70 in Pakistan's first innings 339. 

Woakes, just reviewed to Test obligation after kindred all-rounder Ben Stokes was harmed amid the former Sri Lanka arrangement, now had a general return of 11 for 101 - the first occasion when he had taken no less than 10 wickets in a Test match. 

It likewise made him the principal England bowler to take five wickets in every innings of a Lord's Test since all-round incredible Ian Botham did as such against New Zealand in 1978. 

Britain now need to in any event level with their record fourth-inning score to win a Test at Lord's of 282 for three against New Zealand in 2004 on the off chance that they are to go 1-0 up in this four-match arrangement. 

"A lead of 300 would be extremely pleasant tomorrow," Pakistan mentor Mickey Arthur told Sky Sports. 

Sarfraz Ahmed (45) and Shah baffled England in a seventh-wicket stand of 40. 

Both batsmen were dropped off the cursed Steven Finn as the quick bowler went wicketless on his Middlesex home ground. 

Shah was on two when he chipped Finn and a jumping Stuart Broad just neglected to stick on to an extreme low risk at mid-off. 

Ahmed ought to have been out for 36 when Finn took the outside just for wicket-attendant Jonny Bairstow, setting off on his right side, to drop the chance as the ball hit his wrist. 

Luckily for England, it was not very excessive a miss with Woakes creating significantly less complex risks that Bairstow held to dispose of both the dirty Ahmed and Wahab Riaz (nothing). 

Be that as it may, Finn knew it wasn't his day when Shah, advanced from his first-innings spot of No 11, went down on one knee to derrick him for four high over profound square leg. 

"I apologized to him (Finn), since I went ahead and grabbed several shabby ones (wickets) - and he'd knocked down some pins truly well and merited a couple if not more," said Woakes. 

- Misbah duck - Pakistan were 40 for one at lunch however they lost opener Shan Masood soon a while later when the left-hander, yet again untrustworthy outside off stump, level footedly edged Woakes to England chief Alastair Cook at first slip. 

Azhar Ali (23) then fell lbw to a frantically tight umpire's call as Woakes lessened Pakistan to 59 for three. 

Misbah, in his lady Test thump at Lord's, had made 114 in Pakistan's first innings. 

In any case, on Saturday he succumbed to nothing when he hurled off-spinner Moeen Ali legside and Alex Hales, running round to the mid-wicket rope, held a decent catch. 

Pakistan had never beforehand lost a Test when Misbah had made a hundred and never won one when he had made a duck however one of those records was currently under danger. 

The unsettled Younis Khan played on to Ali for 25 two balls in the wake of driving him for four. 

Asad Shafiq struck a well-made 49 before,in sight of his second fifty of the match, he was knocked down some pins by a Woakes 'trimmer'. 

Prior, Shah delivered the best innings knocking down some pins by a meeting spinner against England in a Test at Lord's following Sid Pegler's seven for 65 for South Africa in 1912. 

Varieties in pace and flight saw Shah over and again posture issues on an inert pitch. 

Conditions ought to be more to support him on a wearing fourth-day surface and Woakes said: "We'll need to play him superior to anything we did in the primary innings. 

"We didn't feel we batted well as a unit - we were possibly 100 (runs) light." 

Britain continued on their overnight 253 for seven, after Shah actuated a center request breakdown on Friday. 

They included only 19 more runs Saturday, with Woakes 35 not out as he stressed his overall accreditations.