England v Pakistan 3rd test scoreboard, 3rd day

England - Pakistan 3rd day, 3rd test

England fought back strongly to leave the third test against Pakistan hanging in the balance after an enthralling third day in Birmingham on Friday.

The hosts bowled out Pakistan for 400 before Alastair Cook and Alex Hales took them to 120 for no wicket in their second innings at the close, 17 runs ahead with two days remaining at Edgbaston.

Pakistan moved on to 336 for five at lunch and looked set to establish a commanding first-innings lead but England picked up their last five wickets quickly to get a foothold in the match.

Cook and Hales batted positively, the former ending on 64 not out and Hales taking a single off the final ball of the day to reach his first fifty of the series, which is level at 1-1.

Scorecard

England 1st innings 297 (G. Ballance 70, M. Ali 63; S. Khan 5-96)

Pakistan 1st innings

M. Hafeez c Ballance b Anderson 0

S. Aslam run out (Vince) 82

Az. Ali c Cook b Woakes 139

Y. Khan c Bairstow b Woakes 31

Misbah-ul-Haq b Anderson 56

A. Shafiq b Broad 0

S. Ahmed not out 46

Y. Shah run out (Woakes, Bairstow) 7

M. Amir lbw b Woakes 1

So. Khan lbw b Broad 7

R. Ali c Root b Broad 4

Extras (b-5 lb-21 nb-1) 27

Total (all out, 136 overs) 400

Fall of wickets: 1-0 M. Hafeez, 2-181 S. Aslam, 3-257 Az. Ali, 4-274 Y. Khan, 5-296 A. Shafiq, 6-358 Misbah-ul-Haq, 7-367 Y. Shah, 8-368 M. Amir, 9-386 So. Khan,10-400 R. Ali

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Bowling

J. Anderson 29.1 - 7 - 54 - 2

S. Broad 30 - 4 - 83 - 3(nb-1)

S. Finn 27.5 - 7 - 76 - 0

C. Woakes 30 - 7 - 79 - 3

M. Ali 17 - 2 - 79 - 0

J. Vince 1 - 0 - 2 - 0

J. Root 1 - 0 - 1 - 0

England 2nd innings

A. Cook not out 64

A. Hales not out 50

Extras (lb-4 nb-2) 6

Total (for no loss, 35 overs) 120

Fall of wickets:

To bat: J. Root, J. Vince, G. Ballance, J. Bairstow, C. Woakes, M. Ali, S. Broad, J. Anderson, S. Finn

Bowling

M. Amir 11 - 2 - 28 - 0

So. Khan 8 - 0 - 40 - 0(nb-2)

R. Ali 5 - 0 - 20 - 0

Y. Shah 11 - 1 - 28 - 0