{"id":620665,"date":"2026-09-10T19:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620665\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T19:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:26:15","slug":"england-vs-pakistan-brook-smith-lawrence-and-robinson-push-hosts-towards-third-test-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620665\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Pakistan: Brook, Smith, Lawrence and Robinson push hosts towards third Test win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third Rothesay Test, Edgbaston (day two of five)<\/p>\n

Pakistan 133 (Shakeel 43; Tongue 4-42) & 52-2 (Robinson 2-10)<\/p>\n

England 453 (Brook 75, Smith 69, Lawrence 65, Gay 60, Robinson 50; Razaullah 4-148)<\/p>\n

Pakistan are 268 runs behind<\/p>\n

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

England’s charge towards a two-day win in the final Test against Pakistan was only halted by rain at Edgbaston.<\/p>\n

The tourists were battling for survival on 52-2 – 268 adrift of making England bat again – when the bad weather intervened for a second and final occasion in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

The time was 17:07 BST. With the possibility of an extra half an hour available to force a result, play could have continued until 19:00 if conditions had allowed.<\/p>\n

Given the fragility of the Pakistan batting – the tourists have not reached 200 or batted for more than 51 overs in the series – there was a real possibility England would earn victory inside two days after Ollie Robinson reduced the visitors to 0-2.<\/p>\n

Instead, the players will return on Friday, when England will complete a 3-0 series clean sweep.<\/p>\n

The eventual outcome of this match was barely in doubt when England began Thursday on 156-4, leading by 23.<\/p>\n

Contributions of 75 from Harry Brook, 69 by Jamie Smith, 65 scored by Dan Lawrence and 50 from Robinson pushed England to 453, a huge first-innings lead of 320.<\/p>\n

The only disappointment was that no England batter pushed on to make a century, meaning Ben Duckett’s ton against New Zealand at Trent Bridge will remain the home side’s only hundred of the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Third Rothesay Test, Edgbaston (day two of five) Pakistan 133 (Shakeel 43; Tongue 4-42) & 52-2 (Robinson 2-10)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-620665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620665","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=620665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}