Pakistan vs England: Men's first cricket test, day one – live | cricket

7th over: Pakistan 27-1 (Shafique 14, Masood 9) A fraction of Woakes' width allows Shafique to hit an impressive back-foot drive for three. “Great, really great,” says David Gower in the commentary. The outfield must be slow as it would normally have gone four.

It's the first of three consecutive threes, with Masood waving a short ball through cover and Shafique wristing it through mid-wicket. Woakes looks a bit excited and annoyed: the ball doesn't do anything and he has figures of 4-0-19-0. In the early days everyone calms down.

Why does everyone use capital letters these days?

6th over: Pakistan 17-1 (Shafique 8, Masood 5) Pakistan started cautiously, which is no surprise given their current batting form. Although they lost an early wicket, early signs suggest there will be plenty of runs today. There is a little bounce but almost no sideways movement.

5th over: Pakistan 14-1 (Shafique 8, Masood 2) Woakes has another LBW shout turned away from Shafique, this time because of the height And Line. Good referee from Kumar Dharmasena, as (almost) always.

Apart from a couple of deliveries in the first over, there was no movement for Woakes and Shafique is capable of picking up a pair of twos in this over. Since his double hundred against Sri Lanka, Shafique has been in terrible form, hitting five in just three of his last 10 Test innings, but he looks in fair condition.

4th over: Pakistan 10-1 (Shafique 4, Masood 2) Before this wicket, I was tipping England to have a day of hard Yakka tossing because there wasn't as much lateral movement as expected.

“I'm happy to see Pakistan bat as I dreamed of England being bowled out on 86 before lunch, in stark contrast to the first day of the 2022 series,” says Dave Voss. “I also dreamed that I won a gold medal in coxless pair rowing with none other than Steve Redgrave, although I had forgotten about the final and he had found someone to row with him but still gave me the medal . “I'm not sure what it is for the series, but there you go.”

The first part of your dream is clearly post-traumatic stress disorder from the first day of the 2011-12 series, when England's all-conquering batters were reduced to 43 for 5 on the first morning. I had no idea about the second part.

WICKET! Pakistan 8-1 (Ayub v Smith v Atkinson 4)

3rd round: Pakistan 5-0 (Shafique 1, Ayub 4) Saim Ayub, a talented left-hander playing only his fourth Test, is hit at the angle by Woakes. It's a pretty good start from England – but when Woakes throws one upfield in search of momentum, Ayub drives elegantly to the cover boundary. Nice shot.

2nd round: Pakistan 1-0 (Shafique 1, Ayub 0) Gus Atkinson shares the new ball, as he did for most of his outstanding debut summer of Test cricket. One imagines he will learn more in these three Tests than he did in six in England.

He starts with a virgin to Shafique: very tight line and length, speed around 84 miles per hour.

1st round: Pakistan 1-0 (Shafique 1, Ayub 0) Chris Woakes opened the bowling for right-hander Abdullah Shafique with three slips. Zak Crawley, who has just recovered from a broken finger, is not among them. At the moment the cast consists of Root, Duckett and Brook.

Woakes has an LBW shout second ball as Shafique pokes around his front pad. The leg was missing, but that's a nice start as the fourth leg flew over the outside edge. Woakes averages 51 away from home and this is a huge series for him, essentially a test to assess his suitability for next winter's Ashes.

Shafique comes into the deck with a quick single.

“The figures suggest it will not be as warm as the English summer of 2022, when temperatures reached 40°C,” writes Med. “Hopefully Pakistan will put up some resistance this time.”

I have never been happier to live in the Orkney Islands than this week.

A reminder to the teams, who are lining up for the anthems.

Pakistan Ayub, Shafique, Masood (c), Babar, Shakeel, Rizwan (wk), Ali Agha, Jamal, Shaheen, Naseem, Abrar.

England Crawley, Duckett, Pope (c), Root, Brook, Smith (wk), Woakes, Atkinson, Carse, Leach, Bashir.

Pitch watch

There is a bit of grass so England could have some joy this morning, but there are also cracks that are getting bigger in the Multan oven. It sounds like it was a pretty easy decision to bat first.

Ollie Pope speaks

These are the hottest conditions I've ever played in but we've trained really well and are ready for this challenge

We would have fought first. There's some moisture on the pitch so hopefully we can take advantage of that. I'm looking forward to seeing (Brydon Carse) in Test cricket – he's got that extra bit of pace and he's exciting to watch.

Ramiz Raja, who directs the throw, tells Pakistan captain Shan Masood: “Keep that smile on your face, boss, you’re going to need it.”

Pakistan wins the toss and the bat

December 1, 2022: the day the world changed

Temperatures should reach 37 degrees in Multan today

This McCullum guy needs to relax a bit

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