Robinson bowled 13 overs for 11 runs, and Pakistan were 180 behind before tea

Thirteen overs. Eleven runs. Six maidens. Ollie Robinson’s second-day spell at Lord’s on Friday was the sort of bowling that does not need wickets to be worth watching, and he took four of them anyway. Pakistan were dismissed for 110 in 37.2 overs, and by the close England led the second Test by 261 runs.

An economy rate of 0.84 in a Test innings

Robinson finished with 4 for 11. His economy rate was 0.84. No other bowler in the match, on either side, has gone at under two an over. He got the ball to seam both ways off a good length and simply refused to give Pakistan’s batters anything to leave alone or hit.

At the other end, Jofra Archer did the opposite job. He was regularly clocked at 92mph and touched 94mph, and he still conceded only 26 runs from his 11.2 overs. Three wickets went his way, including Shan Masood caught behind for 1 in the fourth over and Mohammad Abbas bowled through the gate to end the innings.

Josh Tongue took the other two, removing Abdullah Shafique and then Babar Azam. Gus Atkinson was the only England bowler to go wicketless, and he went for 33 from seven overs.

Azan Awais dug in, and the extras column finished second

Azan Awais faced 102 balls for 46, and the young opener was the only Pakistan batter to look settled at any point. Archer beat his outside edge repeatedly. Atkinson had him caught behind off the shoulder before the replay overturned it, and Harry Brook then dropped him at second slip.

Robinson eventually got him with a bouncer that was pulled straight to square leg, in a double-wicket over that cost two runs.

After Awais, the next best score by a Pakistan batter was Saud Shakeel’s 16. Extras contributed 20, including 12 byes, which made them the second-highest scorer in the innings. Babar Azam, back in the side after missing the Headingley Test with a hand injury, made 8 from 10 balls before Jordan Cox took a sharp catch at third slip.

Pakistan also batted a man short. Imam-ul-Haq strained a calf while fielding on Thursday and could not come out, so Shan Masood opened in his place and the innings ended at nine down.

England’s last pair added 47 before any of it happened

The day started with England on 248 for 9, having lost the last hour of Thursday to bad light. Atkinson and Tongue then batted for nearly an hour together and put on 47. Atkinson made 45 from 46 balls before holing out to long-off against the left-arm spin of Ali Usman, and Tongue was left unbeaten on 30 from 48.

That took England to 290, a total that looked ordinary at the start of the morning and enormous by tea. Mohammad Abbas was the pick of the Pakistan attack with 4 for 73 from 20 overs.

Root’s lbw problem has not gone away

England’s second innings was scratchy rather than commanding. Ben Duckett went for 1 in the second over, chipping to mid-off. Cox, a half-centurion in the first innings, was lbw to Khurram Shahzad for 11 after a Pakistan review.

Joe Root and Emilio Gay then added 47 before Root was pinned in front by a Mohammad Ali nip-backer for 24. He reviewed it without much hope. That is his seventh lbw dismissal in nine innings, a strange run for a batter who has spent a decade being the hardest man in England’s order to trap in front.

Bad light ended the day just before 6.45pm with England 81 for 3, Gay unbeaten on 30 and Brook on 7. Thirteen wickets fell in all.

Pakistan need something they have not managed all tour

England went 1-0 up in this three-match series by winning at Headingley by an innings and 103 runs inside three days, and Pakistan have now been bowled out for 135 and 110 in their last two completed innings. Both times it took under 38 overs.

Robinson now has 12 wickets in the series from three innings, having taken 5 for 51 and 3 for 29 at Headingley to win the match award there. That is 12 wickets for 91 runs across two Tests. Pakistan have not worked out where to score off him, and there are no signs they are close.

Saving this Test requires a batting performance the tourists have not produced since they landed. Three days remain, England have seven second-innings wickets in hand and a lead of 261, so the arithmetic is not complicated.

There is one small piece of history in Pakistan’s favour. The last time they won at Lord’s, in May 2018, they did it by nine wickets and the man of the match was Mohammad Abbas, who took eight wickets in the game. Abbas is 36 now and he took 4 for 73 in this first innings. He is doing his part. Nobody else in the batting order is doing theirs.

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