{"id":44039,"date":"2026-08-28T17:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44039"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:21:57","slug":"england-take-quick-pakistan-wickets-after-being-bowled-out-for-290","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/england-take-quick-pakistan-wickets-after-being-bowled-out-for-290\/","title":{"rendered":"England take quick Pakistan wickets after being bowled out for 290"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Josh Tongue struck with the last ball before lunch to leave Pakistan \u200breeling on 16-2 in reply to England&#8217;s \u200c290 all out on the second day of the second test at Lord&#8217;s on Friday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tongue had earlier scored \u200ban impressive 30 not out in a \u200blast-wicket stand of 47 with Gus Atkinson to \u2060frustrate Pakistan and boost England from their \u200bovernight 248-9.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pakistan faced an awkward hour before the lunch \u200bbreak and struggled as England&#8217;s pace attack, led by an electrifying spell by Jofra Archer, probed for early wickets.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Archer \u200bhad Shan Masood nicking a 91mph delivery behind \u200bto Jamie Smith before Tongue removed Abdullah Shafique, given out \u200cafter \u2060a review showed he had edged an attempted drive.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">England added 42 runs to their overnight total to frustrate Pakistan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Atkinson eventually out for 45 from \u200b46 balls, hitting \u200ban Ali \u2060Usman delivery down the ground to a waiting Mohammad Ali.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pakistan lose two \u200bwickets before lunch.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Jofra Archer produces a lightning-fast \u200bspell \u2060and makes an early breakthrough by having Masood caught behind.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Atkinson thinks he has Azan Awais caught \u2060behind but \u200bPakistan successfully review.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But Tongue returns \u200bfor a second spell before the interval and takes the \u200bwicket of Shafique.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14340,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-44039","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Jofra Archer produces a lightning-fast \u200bspell \u2060and makes an early breakthrough by having Masood caught behind.","published_date":"","news_description":"Jofra Archer produces a lightning-fast \u200bspell \u2060and makes an early breakthrough by having Masood caught behind.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44040,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44039\/revisions\/44040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}