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Cricket coming home? Live return to BBC TV will not be like the 90s
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1.57pm BST
“Tony Lewis,” says the subject line of an email from Nick Lewis (no relation, or not that he’s admitting to). “I am reminded of a time, early nineties-ish, when I stopped by my old mum’s house in the middle of my working day (as I was passing, you know, from one urgent appointment to the next. Skiving, yes. Skiving) to watch a few overs of the Test match. Lewis (the ever elegant, gentlemanly Lewis) was summing up after the morning’s play, fluffed a line, and then, after finishing his piece, thinking the camera was off, unleashed a fusillade of expletives. Live, on the Beeb. Hilarious. I wonder if anyone else caught it.”
1.55pm BST
Both sides take the Liam Gallagher approach to selection: no change. As England hinted that they’d be using their whole squad in the series, that presumably means a few changes to come on Tuesday.
Pakistan: 1 Babar Azam (capt), 2 Fakhar Zaman, 3 Mohammad Hafeez, 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Shadab Khan, 6 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 7 Iftikhar Ahmed, 8 Imad Wasim, 9 Haris Rauf, 10 Mohammad Amir, 11 Shaheen Shah Afridi. Continue reading...