England v Pakistan first Test: England collapse at Lord's

Having won the toss and elected to bat first, home captain Joe Root was soon called into action when opener Mark Stoneman was bowled by the impressive Mohammad Abbas in the fourth over.

Root didn't fare much better himself, flashing at a ball he really ought to have left and feathering a catch to his opposite number, Safraz Ahmed.

David Malan began with a crisp flick of his legs for four but he, too, was soon back in the dressing rooms when Hasan Ali found his outside edge.

Alistair Cook and Jonny Bairstow began the job of rebuilding the innings and Cook increasingly looked in good form, moving his feet well and striking the ball positively down the ground and through the covers.

Bairstow was his usual pugnacious self and when Cook survived a close LBW shout with the score on 35, England looked to be building a solid platform.

The pair went on to compile a 57-run partnership but Bairstow saw his innings cut short on 27 when bowled by Faheem Ashraf.

Ben Stokes was given a warm applause by the Lord's crowd as he made his way to the middle and looked to take the attack to Pakistan while Cook continued to chip away and brought up his half-century.

However, when he was bowled on 70 by Mohammad Amir, England were 149 for five and still with much work to do.

Jos Buttler, who was making his return to the Test side, started brightly and struck a couple of crunching boundaries before Tea was called.

Upon the resumption, Pakistan had an LBW decision against Stokes overturned on review after Abbas trapped him on the crease and in the following over, Buttler drove at Ali to give the paceman his third wicket of the innings.

The collapse continued as debutant Dom Bess was well pouched by Asad Shafiq off the bowling off Abbas before the same bowler curled one back into Stuart Broad's pads to leave England teetering on 180-9.

Mark Wood was the last man out when pulling Ali into the hands of Amir who completed a brilliant day in field for Pakistan, holding onto a diving catch to wrap up the England innings.

Pakistan's reply started watchfully until Broad trapped Imam-ul-Haq LBW to leave the visitors on 12-1.

Azhar Ali and Haris Sohail ensured there would be no further casualties, the latter enjoying a slice of good fortune when dropped in the slips, and they took the visitors through to 50-1 at the close of play.

At the close of play, Cook said: "We knew the first two hours were going to be tough, and we scrapped hard.

"But then from 150 for five, to get bowled out for 180 is frustrating. It probably did a little bit more than we expected it to.

"Pakistan gutsed it out well there at the end. But 50 for one can be 80 for four, 120 for seven, and the game changes."

As for his own performance, England's all-time record runscorer had mixed feelings at returning to form but missing out on a 33rd Test century.

"It is frustrating when you do all the hard work and don't go on and get a hundred, but I played okay," he said.

"A few things had crept into my game over the last six months or so, exaggerated in New Zealand, where I couldn't get my weight back into the ball as I'd like.

"But you go away and work on it, and I thought it was pretty decent today."

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