28-08-2026 17:33 via theguardian.com

England v Pakistan: second men’s cricket Test, day two – live

Updates from day two at Lord’s; play starts 11am
Day one report | Sign up for the Spin | Mail Rob62nd over: England 266-9 (Atkinson 38, Tongue 14) Scrap that: Atkinson takes a leg-bye off the second ball of this over. As Tongue prepares to face Abbas, the keeper, Mohammad Rizwan, calls for a helmet and goes up to the stumps – so Josh Tongue is now being treated like Joe Root. The ploy could backfire by making Tongue’s nicks harder for the slips to pick up. And it doesn’t
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