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

Updates from day four at Lord’s; play starts 11am BST Day three report | Sign up for The Spin | Mail Tom Morning everyone.

And after a day savoured by my parched lawn much more than those who’d paid top dollar for Lord’s tickets, England remain primed, accompanied by a slightly better weather forecast than yesterday’s, to wrap up that first Test series win for 20 months against a bedraggled Pakistan.

Let’s face it, they’ve got enough runs in the bank already , leading by 357, and Joe Root will have been pondering an overnight declaration.

All will be revealed shortly.

If the England captain does call his batters in, that will be a slight shame for Dan Lawrence, who batted with great authority yesterday in difficult conditions to reach his second half-century of the series, another Bazball discard reasserting himself in the new era. (And the only England cricketer as far as I know to have gone to the same school as me – some years apart I hasten to add.) Continue reading...