{"id":607586,"date":"2026-08-28T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607586\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:16:09","slug":"england-vs-pakistan-ollie-robinson-and-jofra-archer-give-hosts-control-at-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607586\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Pakistan: Ollie Robinson and Jofra Archer give hosts control at Lord’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second Rothesay Test, Lord’s (day two of five)<\/p>\n

England 290 (Smith 61, Cox 55; Abbas 4-73) & 81-3 (Gay 30*)<\/p>\n

Pakistan 110 (Awais 46; Robinson 4-11, Archer 3-26)<\/p>\n

England lead by 261 runs<\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

England’s quartet of seamers once again overwhelmed Pakistan to put the home side on the verge of a series win on the second day of the second Test at Lord’s.<\/p>\n

Led by Ollie Robinson and Jofra Archer, and supported by Josh Tongue and Gus Atkinson, the foursome gave another demonstration of why there is growing optimism around the England attack.<\/p>\n

The struggling Pakistanis, without the injured Imam-ul-Haq, were hustled out for 110. Only Azan Awais, who made 46, passed 20 \u2013 extras was the next highest score.<\/p>\n

Robinson continued his sensational comeback summer with 4-11, while Archer bowled with electrifying pace for his 3-26.<\/p>\n

It gave England, who earlier extended their first innings to 290, an advantage of 180 runs.<\/p>\n

The hosts were soon 13-2 in their second innings before being steadied by a stand of 47 between Emilio Gay and Joe Root.<\/p>\n

As the light drew in, Root was dismissed by Mohammad Ali for 24, the captain once again lbw to a seam bowler in what has become a trend for England’s all-time leading run-scorer.<\/p>\n

Harry Brook overturned being given out lbw first ball to the same bowler and Gay battled to 30 not out. The opener has the opportunity for a much-needed score to quieten questions about his place in the side.<\/p>\n

England reached 81-3, a lead of 261. Given Saturday’s weather forecast,<\/a> they may have to wait some time to build their advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second Rothesay Test, Lord’s (day two of five) England 290 (Smith 61, Cox 55; Abbas 4-73) & 81-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-607586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}