Lunch England 299 for six (Brook 75, Lawrence 65, Homosexual 60, Smith 47*) lead Pakistan 133 (Shakeel 43, Tongue 4-42, Robinson 3-15, Archer 3-25) by 166 runs
Lawrence seemed fluent, unfurling eight boundaries – together with back-to-back fours off spectacular younger seamer Razaullah – and two in a single over from Pakistan’s main bowler for the sequence, Mohammad Abbas, hammered by way of midwicket and minimize with venom by way of backward level.
That was after Brook had run himself out chancing the superb arm of Shan Masood after prodding a Saim Ayub supply in direction of midwicket and setting off, ending up effectively wanting his floor because the bowler broke the stumps on the non-striker’s finish.
There was doubt over whether or not Jamie Smith would preserve in Pakistan’s second innings after he copped a nasty knock to the hand standing as much as the stumps to Ollie Robinson on Wednesday and Jordan Cox was noticed practising his wicketkeeping throughout the pre-match warm-ups. However Smith confirmed no signal of discomfort with the bat, launching Ayub down the bottom for six off the eleventh ball he confronted.
Smith moved quickly into the 40s, scoring at nearly a run-a-ball as he dispatched Razaullah for 2 extra consecutive fours, and at lunch he was 47 not out off 53.
Gus Atkinson overturned an leg-before choice that may have despatched him again on 1 and given Razaullah his third wicket when replays confirmed he’d acquired a faint edge to 1 that skidded onto his pad. He went to the break unbeaten on 5.