Bad light rules frustrate England and Stuart Broad as Pakistan dig deep
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Second Test, day two: Pakistan 223-9
Mohammad Rizwan grinds through gloom for 60 not out
So much creative, lateral thinking has been required to put on the two Test series in England this summer. Everyone has had to be unusually flexible; regulations have been bent so that the necessity of “neutral” umpires has been abandoned; Chris Broad has been refereeing a match in which his son has been playing and then cheered us all up by fining him £2,000 and nobody complained. So many sacrifices have been made to get the game going again. Which is why in a damp, dank second half of the summer, there is so much exasperation when everything stops because of bad light.
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