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 Tim On Sky, Ian Ward has just done a quick interview with England’s assistant coach, Sarah Taylor.

Asked about being the first woman among the England coaches, she reveals a nice detail.

“The players just call me Coach,” she says, “which is how it should be.” As we had a shortened day yesterday, this is going to be a longer one.

Play still starts at 11, but the intervals are a bit later than usual – lunch at 1.15pm and tea at 4.10 – and the close may not be until 7pm.

In theory, there will be 98 overs in the day; in practice, this is England and they haven’t picked a specialist spinner, so their over rate may well be abysmal as usual.

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