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Aslam and Azhar put Pakistan in control
- Updated: August 4, 2016
Lunch Pakistan 154 for 1 (Aslam 69*, Azhar 72*) trail England 297 by 225 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Pakistan engineered themselves a position of considerable strength by tea on the second day at Edgbaston as Sami Aslam and Azhar Ali added an unbroken 154 for the second wicket to take them to within 143 of England’s total.
England’s only success came with the fourth ball of the day when Mohammad Hafeez cut low to point but after that it was two sessions of toil, frustration and self-enforced errors. The most significant of those mistakes involved Azhar who was dropped twice on 38 and 69. The first of them, which came in the opening over after lunch, was an edge to second slip that Joe Root was late to move to was the simpler, with the other being a rifled drive back at Moeen Ali shortly before tea.
The first opportunity came off James Anderson and did nothing to improve his mood. He had became agitated towards the end of his first spell when umpire Joel Wilson queried his follow through, at one point grabbing his cap from Wilson in a manner that could interest the match referee, and during the afternoon became …
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