and Hoggy gets the first wicket. Lovely.

and Freddy gets Inzy out. Nice start to the day. Inzy was just starting to look dangerous but now he is gone the tail should fold pretty quickly now.

I love the ball-by-ball over on Cricinfo, but it just doesn’t have the same appeal as lounging on the sofa, watching it all unfold on Channel 4. I hate being at work during a Test.

Morning everyone - overslept. As I awake - Kaneria comes into the attack.

Still waking up. Looking forward to the afternoon session. I think Pakistan should be worried that they didn’t make 400 and I would think that 400 is the benchmark Trescothick will be looking for.

I reckon probably 220-3 at close of play.

Big turn for Kaneria there. He will be the key.

That’s a bit mean - Shoaib’s love-handles aren’t that big

Ruddy hell, it’s freezing here. I’m going back to huddling under the duvet.

Great stuff Tresco - no better way to follow up a huge slice of luck.

I am surprised not to see Afridi and Rana in this Pakistani Squad.

Rana in my mind is an excellent bowler who can (like Jones & Flintoff) reverse swing the ball at around 90mph.

And Afridi’s batting lower down could have made the difference of 50-60 runs to the total.

must confess, went back to bed after my breakfast. Cold here too. Tres and Bell putting on a good partnership. Glad to see Bell have a good knock.

Slow over rate, though. How has been the culprit, wasting time?

Ooooh, lucky lucky puppy, Bell!

Wish I had a pint! Although maybe not at this time of day…

A vicious rumour has it that we’re about to lose R4 to the Remembrance Sunday coverage. Or did I hallucinate that?

Shot Belly, deliberate glide to the 3rd man boundary - a sure sign he is seeing it well - at least now the sight screen has been moved.

R4 gone, oh woe!

Meant a “point”, but a pint sounds better. Maybe later.

Is it Colly or KP in at 4?

Colly is in. Tresco just gets his 100. Score up to 211 for2.

231-2 probably about 8 overs will be bowled today, sun starting to set. Kaneria back on for Shoaib Malik, commentary team thinks Inzi might give him another go from Shabbir’s end.

England starting to pick off the singles really nicely now - I suppose this is the introduction of Collingwood. And an awesome sweep from Tres - deep mid wicket didn’t have a chance. I think there were eight runs off that over.

Seems as though Colly’s settled in OK - how does he look?

This is so annoying - I was working away quite happily when I had the radio on, but now I’m refreshing the live scoreboard page every 15 seconds and getting nowt done. Bummer. Ah well, only a little while to go.

Really comfortable

250 up!

Gone - regulation nick from Colly to the keeper and Shabbir has a wicket - a bit disappointing really - but it does mean we get to see Hoggie as night watchman.

253 for 3 and off they go for bad light. Shoaib just hit Tresco a glancing blow on the shoulder so getting too dangerous out there now.

As I thought. 10 overs lost.

Didn’t we play well!

I’d have taken that at the start of the day, Wraye.

Is Bell going for another record? In his BBC interview lasting 2 minutes 39 seconds, he manages to say “you know” a huge 32 times, by my count. May have missed one or two, though, you know?

Afridi should have played, but in place of one of the seamers not Raza, Raza’s place should probably have been taken by Asim Kamal.

The ideal line up for this test should have been
Malik Butt Younis Inzi Yousuf Asim Kamran Afridi Rana Shoaib Kaneria

Sami and Shabbir both rely on conditions to get wicket, or far too much for them to have a big affect on this kind of surface. There isn’t much point in playing 3 genuine quicks on this surface unless they’re all us skilful or clevel or consistent as England’s are. And Sami’s not proved him self at test level for a while anyway, an average of 44 at test level after 22 game is just not good enough, we should send him back to domestic level now. He needs a bit of a reality check - he’s been taking his place in the side for granted, he must be punished for this, and others like Rana be given a chance.