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Birthday boy James Anderson took five for 49 as England ripped through Pakistan on a day laden with wickets for the pace bowlers at Trent Bridge. Mohammad Asif...
Birthday boy James Anderson took five for 49 as England ripped through Pakistan on a day laden with wickets for the pace bowlers at Trent Bridge. Mohammad Asif (five for 77) was the first to make the most of conditions in an England collapse from an overnight 331 for four to 354 all out - losing their last six wickets for 17 runs. But under persistent heavy cloud cover on day two of this npower Test series, Pakistan were always likely to struggle in reply.

Anderson and Steve Finn (three for 20) did not miss their cue, as the tourists stumbled to 47 for six on the way to 147 for nine when bad light brought an early close despite the use of floodlights. Pakistan must therefore begin again on day three needing eight more runs from their last-wicket pair to pass the follow-on mark.

Captain Salman Butt went in the 45 minutes before lunch, poking past his front pad to edge an Anderson outswinger behind to go for just a single.

Anderson, 28, produced a near unplayable ball to make Imran Farhat the first victim of the afternoon - bowled by one that was angled into the left-hander from round the wicket only to nip away off the seam and hit off stump.

Finn made short work of Umar Amin, fencing the first of three catches to Graeme Swann at second slip from the last ball of the Middlesex fast bowler's first over. Umar Akmal went in mirror-image fashion to the same combination.

Kamran Akmal was Finn's third wicket when he obligingly hung out his bat to give Paul Collingwood catching practice at third slip. Before then, number three Azhar Ali - who had looked by far the likeliest of the top order to keep England at bay - had foregone his decision review system option when he was given out caught behind off Anderson, to one which appeared to flick the hip of his trousers. Finn, prescribed a mid-summer strengthening programme rather than one-day international action since his man-of-the-series performances against Bangladesh, was vindicating that safety-first policy with a fierce spell from the pavilion end. Five wickets fell for only 15 runs, but Pakistan achieved some respite as Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Aamer fought on.

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