Pak in command despite Woakes’ bowling heroics

Yasir Shah made a useful unbeaten 30 after starring with the ball to leave Pakistan well-placed come stumps on the third day of an intriguing first Test against England at Lord’s yesterday.
Pakistan were 214 for eight in their second innings at the close, a lead of 281 runs, after leg-spinner Shah took six for 72 in England’s first innings 272.
But at stumps he was shaking hands with Chris Woakes after the Warwickshire all-rounder had taken five for 31 to follow the his Test-best haul of six for 70 in Pakistan’s first innings 339.
Woakes, only recalled to Test duty after fellow all-rounder Ben Stokes was injured during the preceding Sri Lanka series, now had an overall return of 11 for 101 — the first time he had taken at least 10 wickets in a Test match.
It also made him the first England bowler to take five wickets in each innings of a Lord’s Test since all-round great Ian Botham did so against New Zealand in 1978.
England now need to at least equal their record fourth-inning score to win a Test at Lord’s of 282 for three against New Zealand in 2004 if they are to go 1-0 up in this four-match series.
“A lead of 300 would be very nice tomorrow,” Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur told Sky Sports.
Sarfraz Ahmed (45) and Shah frustrated England in a seventh-wicket stand of 40.
Both batsmen were dropped off the luckless Steven Finn as the fast bowler went wicketless on his Middlesex home ground.
Shah was on two when he chipped Finn and a diving Stuart Broad just failed to cling on to a tough low chance at mid-off.
Ahmed should have been out for 36 when Finn took the outside only for wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow, going to his right, to drop the chance as the ball hit his wrist.
 Fortunately for England, it was not too costly a miss with Woakes producing even simpler chances that Bairstow held to get rid of both the gritty Ahmed and Wahab Riaz (nought).
 But Finn knew it wasn’t his day when Shah, promoted from his first-innings spot of No 11, went down on one knee to hoist him for
four high over deep square leg.
 “I apologised to him (Finn), because I came on and picked up a couple of cheap ones (wickets) — and he’d bowled really well and deserved a couple if not more,” said Woakes.
Pakistan were 40 for one at lunch but they lost opener Shan Masood soon afterwards when the left-hander, once more fallible outside off stump, flat-footedly edged Woakes to England captain Alastair Cook at first slip.
Azhar Ali (23) then fell lbw to a desperately tight umpire’s call as Woakes reduced Pakistan to 59 for three.
Misbah, in his maiden Test knock at Lord’s, had made 114 in Pakistan’s first innings.
But yesterday, he fell for nought when he heaved off-spinner Moeen Ali legside and Alex Hales, running round to the mid-wicket rope, held a good catch.
 Pakistan had never previously lost a Test when Misbah had made a hundred and never won one when he had made a duck but one of those records was now under threat.
The unsettled Younis Khan played on to Ali for 25 two balls after driving him for four.
Asad Shafiq struck a well-made 49 before,in sight of his second fifty of the match, he was bowled by a Woakes ‘trimmer’.
Earlier, Shah produced the best innings bowling by a visiting spinner against England in a Test at Lord’s since Sid Pegler’s seven for 65 for South Africa back in 1912.

SCOREBOARD
Pakistan 1st Innings 339:
 (Misbah-ul-Haq114, Asad Shafiq 73;
C Woakes 6-70, S Broad 3-71)
England 1st Innings:  (overnight: 253-7)
A. Cook b Mohamed Amir    81
A. Hales c Azhar Ali b Rahat Ali    6
J. Root c Hafeez b Yasir Shah    48
J. Vince lbw b Yasir Shah    16
G. Ballance lbw b Yasir Shah    6
J. Bairstow b Yasir Shah        29
M. Ali lbw b Yasir Shah        23
C. Woakes not out        35
S. Broad b Wahab Riaz        17
S. Finn lbw b Yasir Shah        5
J. Ball run out (Shan Masood/
Wahab Riaz)         4
Extras:  (nb2) 2
Total:  (all out, 79.1 overs, 358 mins) 272
Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Hales), 2-118 (Root), 3-139 (Vince), 4-147 (Ballance), 5-173 (Cook), 6-193 (Bairstow), 7-232 (Ali), 8-260 (Broad), 9-267 (Finn), 10-272 (Ball)
Bowling: Amir 18-2-65-1; Rahat Ali 14-1-68-1; Riaz 18.1-0-67-1 (2nb); Shah 29-6-72-6
Pakistan 2nd Innings:
Mohamed Hafeez c Root b Broad     0
Shan Masood c Cook b Woakes     24
Azhar Ali lbw b Woakes     23
Younis Khan b Ali         25
Misbah-ul-Haq c Hales b Ali     0
Asad Shafiq b Woakes         49
Sarfraz Ahmed c Bstow b Woakes     45
Yasir Shah not out         30
Wahab Riaz c Bairstow b Woakes     0
Mohamed Amir not out     0
Extras: (b6, lb11, nb1)         18
Total:  (8 wkts, 77 overs, 343 mins) 214
Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Hafeez), 2-44 (Masood), 3-59 (Azhar) 4-60 (Misbah), 5-129 (Younis), 6-168 (Shafiq), 7-208 (Ahmed), 8-214 (Riaz)
Bowling: Broad 18-6-38-1; Ball 16-7-37-0; Finn 13-4-42-0; Woakes 17-6-31-5; Ali 13-3-49-2 (1nb)
Match position: Pakistan lead by 281 runs with two second-innings wickets standing.
Toss: Pakistan