Good morning and welcome to live coverage of day five of the first Test at Multan which Pakistan begin 115 runs behind with three, possibly four if Abrar Ahmed has recovered enough from the virus that dispatched him to hospital yesterday to bat because, in the immortal words of Cook/Moore/Bennett/Miller, “we need a futile gesture at this stage, Perkins”. It could only postpone the inevitable following England’s orgy of record-breaking on days three and four have left Pakistan flatter even than... Read this story
